RNC Mailer Directs Donors to Sex Line: 'We Love Nasty Talk as Much as You Do' (RNC under attack?)

ABCNews "The Note" ^ | April 1, 2010 | Matt Loffman

[pillut48]

Doug Heye, the RNC’s communications director, said that the mail piece was produced by Burch Munford Direct, a direct-mail firm frequently used by the RNC.

According to Heye, the firm “will not be used for the foreseeable future.”

Heye said that the mix-up happened when *the direct mail firm* replaced the RNC’s “202” area code with an “800” area code.

[pillut48]

Looks like the MSM has received their memos from Soros to attack the RNC relentlessly. First Michael Steele supposedly going to strip bars on donator's dime, now this?

Fishy. And I don't mean gold fishy. I mean great big giant sea monster fishy.

< reaches for tin foil hat >

[GeronL]

and they wonder why nobody is donating money to them.

[pillut48]

Tip from Jake Tapper on Twitter

[SmokingJoe]

RNC under attack?

Sounds more like an April Fool’s joke to me.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If I were the RNC I would not presume this was a typo or a mistake. Back when Michael Moore was doing his TV show, they got one of their guys a temp job with the Heritage Foundation and then laughed at the hidden camera footage of his sabotage.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The RNC needs to avoid business with union shops. In fact anybody needs to avoid union shops.

[pb929]

When it rains it pours.

[Ben Mugged]

The direct mail firm should now owe the RNC a large sum of money.

[sphinx]

This sounds like deliberate sabotage to me. This could have happened at the vendor (Burch Munford), or at the printer. There should be a paper trail on all this. Unless things have changed radically from the olden days, all copy would have been submitted to the RNC for approval. The RNC direct mail managers would also have signed off on the bluelines. If the bogus number was submitted and cleared, then someone at the RNC was asleep at the switch, or worse. But if a change was made post-blueline, that's a different matter entirely.

The story doesn't detail exactly when or how the switch happened or tell whether anyone was fired as a result. Those are among the first questions that should be asked. But it's an ABC story, so naturally the interest of the reporter doesn't extend beyond glee at the RNC's embarrassment.

My initial hunch is that there is a disgruntled former employee somewhere (Burch Munford, printer, or RNC) who sabotaged a mail piece on his way out the door.

[Walkingfeather]

You get the feeling that the RNC is run by Inspector Clouseau?

[Nightbird]

Is “Burch Munford” a person or a mail company?

How do you know he/they produced this? FEC records?

[pillut48]

Curious. I did a 'Topeka' web search ;-) using this 'firm's' address and NOTHING came up under the address. Maps shows a business building but no sign out front advertising them. 901 N Washington St Alexandria, VA 22314

[UCFRoadWarrior]

As long as Liberal RINO GOPers like McCain and Grahamnasty take money from George Soros....you aid and abet Soros to do these things....

The people running the GOP are going to cost the party in 2010 and 2012 if they are not removed NOW. Steele going to an Illegal Alien Amnesty group to pander to them for Illegal Alien Amnesty should have been the last straw.

[KC_Conspirator]

Very fishy. (and kinky)

I am a PJ O'Rourke "Pants Down" Republican, so I could care less about this.

Its the reckless spending, destructive liberal policies, and harmful socialism that I am worried about.

[Buckeye McFrog]

in my town at least the direct mail business has the reputation for hiring a high percentage of drug users

[pillut48]

It is very curious to me--ABCMSM running with the "latest RNC blunder" which they admit isn't the RNC's fault but the mailer company's fault--yes, someone at RNC had to have signed off on the proof before printing and distribution commenced--but if it was a mailer company used frequently with a regular letterhead that wouldn't change each printing, I can see why a telephone prefix might be overlooked. If this was the FIRST time this mailer company has been used, I think I would investigate this more fully at the RNC.

What is also curious to me is the lewd sexual connection to the RNC, just like the 'strip bar' story--is this the new liberal meme designed to 'humilate' the Republican party? Rather hamfisted, if so. ;-)

[trumandogz]

That’s hilarious!

[Eroteme]

Yep, pretty darn curious that this mistake lands up in the very same category as the RNC expenditure.

What are the odds that switching only the area code prefix results in a working sex line? I’d like to know exactly when the sex line outfit acquired the 800 number, and whether it was requested or randomly assigned.

[Eroteme]

And a google search of the 800 number turns up nothing. Only the RNC with the 202 prefix. This looks like a brand, spanking new number secured precisely for this purpose. Or, as others have mention, the story is bogus, an April Fool’s prank that suckered the media. Because it so fit their biases and what they wanted to be true, no reason to fact check.

[mono]

Is anyone watching the store at the RNC? Just way too many screwups.