House Republican campaign chief furious after leak on party dues

[babylonsister]

:evilgrin:

House Republican campaign chief furious after leak on party dues
By Molly K. Hooper - 03/17/11 06:00 AM ET


Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) has apologized to irate Republican members who were singled out in a leaked document that highlighted that they were behind in their party dues.

Sessions, who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), told The Hill this week that he did not leak the information to the press last month. He also took issue with the accuracy of the data provided to Capitol Hill publications last month.

“I offered my apologies to several people. So whoever thinks they were going to leak falsified information should know that I’m disappointed in their behavior,” Sessions said.

His emphatic denial of leaking the names of nine GOP lawmakers reportedly in arrears, more than one month after the story appeared in the press, indicates that the issue is still politically sensitive in the Republican Conference. Several members told The Hill that they are trying to ascertain who leaked the data and speculating among themselves who did it.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/150347-republican-campaign-chief-furious-after-leak

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Be still, my heart

[PA Democrat]

2. OK. Here are the names:

Reps. Pete King (R-N.Y.), Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Bill Young (R-Fla.), Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), Lee Terry (R-Neb.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Ron Paul (R-Texas), Steve King (R-Iowa) and Gary Miller (R-Calif.)

[rasputin1952]

4. Oh man...you beat me by a few seconds...

:D

[rasputin1952]

3. Ooooh...I just have to post the names....

:evilgrin:

Reps. Pete King (R-N.Y.), Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Bill Young (R-Fla.), Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), Lee Terry (R-Neb.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Ron Paul (R-Texas), Steve King (R-Iowa) and Gary Miller (R-Calif.) were included in the articles for owing a combined $1 million in NRCC dues left over from the 2010 cycle.

:rofl:

[Lasher]

9. You lie!

And you don't pay your dues!

[groundloop]

5. I see Ron Paul dislikes paying dues as much as paying taxes

Gee, are the Publicans having a little internal strife?

[Lasher]

11. Gotta give him credit for being consistent.

Consistently selfish and greedy.

[gratuitous]

18. NO! Republicans aren't in disarray

You're thinking of Democrats. No matter what's going on in their caucus, Republicans are never disorganized or having internal strife or anything like that. So our media overlords have decreed.

[ejpoeta]

6. they pay dues? like a union? isn't that a bad thing? i mean, for union members

to have to pay dues to be used to fund politicians to be a bad thing, then if these reps pay dues to an entity to support politicians, then isn't it bad too?

[Scuba]

8. +++++++++++++++

[deminks]

10. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.

[FSogol]

13. +1, n/t

[NHDemProg]

7. Forced to apologize

because of a bunch of Teabagger freeloaders? Oh, the hypocrisy!

[iwishiwas]

12. The tactic is to publicly shame the members (read the whole

article). I can see that if they do this to their own members they one the one hand, keep them in line.Yet, on the other hand, if they manage their own members like this, I can see how they have no problem "managing" their constituents like this. It is really a regressive manner of relating to people.

[DCKit]

15. Public shaming is all they've got... until they pass a law allowing flogging. nt

[peace frog]

16. They already have waterboarding

flogging will be gravy.

[iwishiwas]

17. Based on the angry responses of the Repugs, it is working, yet my

point was that the Repups have no problem in passing it down to all Americans.

[DCKit]

19. The inhumanity of (R)s is the last thing I'll argue about. nt

[iwishiwas]

21. True.

[tanyev]

14. Heh.

[randr]

20. Aren't their panties in a knot over union dues used for political purposes?

[old mark]

22. K&R- They should all be expelled from Congress and their seats taken by Democrats ! That

would teach them a lesson!
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[Bandit]

23. Everybody knows Republicans LIE

I am sure Sessions leaked the information..