RNC Fires Phone Solicitors [former donors outraged over amnesty]

The Washington Times ^ | 05/31/2007 | None Listed

[de meanr]

There has been a sharp decline in contributions from RNC phone solicitations, another fired staffer said, reporting that many former donors flatly refuse to give more money to the national party if Mr. Bush and the Senate Republicans insist on supporting what these angry contributors call "amnesty" for illegal aliens. "Everyone donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue," said the former employee.

[JRochelle]

Laura Ingraham took Senor Bush to the woodshed this morning.

audio. (I hope the link will work.)

http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2007/05/30/mono.mp3

[colorcountry]

She’s recovered and has a great job with the National Park Service.

Her experience has made it hard for me to tell those kids how I feel. She was never given the chance to relay to anyone the negative comments she heard. I was wondering if the higher-ups were getting wind of the dissatisfaction. I’m glad to see them finally taking the heat!

[Shermy]

”W needs to insult us some more so we’ll come around to his superior point of view.“

He told us that we hadn’t read the immigration bill in an insulting tone,

Then his own staff had to change their talking points to try to cover the parts of the bill they previously hid,

Aren’t we due for an apology?

[greyfoxx39]

Welcome back! (j/k)

I was going to say the same to you...your home page is still blue. ;) BTW, I'm not getting the message, unless it's regarding my sojourn in AZ.

[CholeraJoe]

I changed emails and had my home phone disconnected and only use my cell. The RNC can’t find me and I gave them a boatload of money in 2004. In my last call to them I told them that they wouldn’t see another cent from me until the borders were secured.

[Principled]

Put me down as someone that he is refering to as I gave somebody an earful last week. It's too bad these people have had to lose their jobs though. Maybe they can renounce their citizenship and then enjoy the benefits of being an illegal in this country with welfare and in state tuition for their children.

THis is great! Deserves "Post of the Something" honors to be sure - you owe me a keyboard, chair, coffee cup and a cat! LOL!

[greyfoxx39]

You have hotmail.

[Snoopers-868th]

In my opinion, it was the same issue that booted them last November. It was the media and the GOP that wanted to make it about the War. When people don’t feel they matter they don’t show up and they don’t support anyone.

[LibLieSlayer]

Let the Republicans nominate someone even semi Conservative, give up Shamnesty and start fighting back against the rats... their coffers will once again overflow. If not... they will go bankrupt. I have given enough over the years that I KNOW they hear me. I have not given a dime in over a year! I have donated an obscene amount of money over the years. It will go directly to Conservative candidates and 527’s if the RNC remains elitist!

LLS

[af_vet_rr]

Fire the messengers, rather than change the program.

There is only one conclusion: The GOP is dead and waste of time.

That's exactly what it sounds like they are doing - individuals are pissed over immigration, don't donate, money isn't coming in, so bam, ditch the phone callers. I notice the RNC said the money issue is not important, that they are still raising plenty of money, but I'd bet that it's from the big boys, who don't have a phone bank calling them, but instead have direct numbers to people working on the RNC staff...

[Lancey Howard]

I know I put MY checkbook away.

It’s not only immigration, it’s the Bush Administration’s failure to clean up the corrupt Justice Department (still filled with Clinton scumbags), clean up the leaky, rogue CIA, and clean OUT the leaky, communist State Department. Some of those mice need to be in PRISON.

I think it was when Sandy Berger walked away laughing after his guilty plea to stealing and destroying classified material from the National Archives that I closed my checkbook. Or maybe it was when the Justice Department threw a couple of border agents in jail while giving a Mexican drug smuggler immunity. Of course, it might have been when Bush fired some US Attorneys and then grabbed his ankles when the rats whined, sending out his lackey to apologize instead of laughing in the rats’ faces and firing a few more US Attorneys just because it’s Thursday.

Hmmmm.... On the other hand, I may have closed my checkbook when it became evident that Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush was happy to put the scumbag ACLU lawyers of JAG in charge of the war in Iraq. Way to be, Bush. How many Marines will die because they hesitated to pull their triggers just long enough to review their “battlefield ethics” and their thirteen “rules of engagement” out of fear of ending up in prison?

Whatever....

I will not donate to a party that has clearly been castrated. Bush could start the party on the road to recovery by giving Berger that lie detector test he’s supposed to take. I mean, Berger IS eligible soon to regain his security clearance....

Can I go throw up now?

[gondramB]

When I was a teenager I did phone solicitation. I had a lot less ethics back then and had not yet become a Christian. It was a way to make grown up money because people couldn’t tell I was a kid.

I worked for Dial America selling magazines, I worked for the Robb Report promising that our subscribers were suckers so you should advertise your luxury product there and get more than it was worth.

I even worked for a “policeman’s ball” type fund raise that was barely legal. Even though some of the money went to real cops, fake cops were sent to collect the checks once they had someone’s address.

The most dishonest of all - and the employer who made me quit the business, was the Republican party. They ripped off everyone. The promised employment terms were generous so several of my friends followed me there. They stole our wages, they lied to registered Republicans, the concerts they were selling tickets for never happened and they pushed us to concentrate on calling older Republicans and pressure them.

If, by some unfortunate chance, the Republicans are still using the same organization, there may be more to the story than just “screwing the base” problems. But hopefully the GOP already cleaned house in the telemarketing department and this is a different group.

[colorcountry]

LOL! She’d better not be watching THAT kind of grass!

She actually is conducting a grass study. Sometimes I wish I could have the life of my children! Thank God, I could give them a better life than my parents could give me. I think we still live in a great country (for now anyway.)

[de meanr]

” Hey! They finally noticed ‘lil old angry me!!! “

[Round of Applause]

Yeah. Working together we can get things accomplished.

[savedbygrace]

They couldn’t get a clue if they lived on a clue farm and clues were in season.

[Alberta's Child]

I think it was a combination of both. I suspect a lot of people got up on election day, read one more story about U.S. casualties in Iraq from the previous day/night, drove past a horde of illegal aliens in front of a local convenience store, and asked themselves: "WHAT IS THE F#%&ING POINT OF ALL THIS?!"

[Brandie]

Thank you so much for the link, it works great. I listen to her every morning she has been awesome about this.

[Wilhelm Tell]

If the RNC had two clues to rub together, they'd fire their leadership as well.

The GOP leadership is so bone-headed. They probably thnk their fund-raising problems have to do with something wrong with their telephone solicitors and it has nothing to do with displeasure over bad GOP policies. It is as if a business made a defective product that no one wanted and rather than focusing on quality control they decided to fire their sales people and get new ones.