Mass Layoffs Hit RNC

[Pale Blue Dot]

Source: Washington Post

One week after Michael Steele won a hotly contested race to be the chairman of the Republican National Committee, he has cleaned house and laid off almost the entire RNC staff.

Steele met with the full staff on Tuesday and word of the mass layoffs came shortly after that. According to sources familiar with the move, all of the communications and political staffers are being let go.

Some senior staff members -- in expectation of being let go -- submitted their resignations shortly after Steele won the chairmanship last Friday. Others have already found new jobs, most notably RNC political director Rich Beeson who will return to his post at FLS Direct, and Amber Wilkerson who will serve as national spokeswoman at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Such an overhaul is not entirely unprecedented particularly given that Steele ousted incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan from the job in the vote last week and his entire message during that campaign was built around the idea that change was needed after the disastrous GOP showing in the 2008 election.

But, it does force Steele and his team to build a new team from scratch in the midst of trying to hold President Obama accountable in the early days of his presidency.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2009/02/mass_layoffs_at_rnc.html?hpid=news-col-blog

---

I'm not usually one to cheer layoffs, but this one feels a little like justice.

[Dr.Phool]

1. It gives new meaning to a bankrupt party.

[No Elephants]

25. They are bankrupt, but not financially.

[mike3121]

2. Mass Layoffs Hit RNC

Sniff, sniff. Tell me it isn't true.

[Donnachaidh]

3. bwahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Joanne98]

4. HAHA

[bluestateguy]

5. This is common after elections

Democrats do it too, though Republicans seem to excel at eliminating jobs.

[MaineDem]

11. Exactly

This will happen at the DNC, too. Many will be rehired.

[Renew Deal]

6. Welfare Queens!

:D

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

7. I thought steele said the repubs didn't need to change anything

[SoCalDem]

8. Actually, I think this is normal..

These are highly political/partisan jobs, and I can understand why he would want his own hand-picked people in place.. In politics, you always want people in place, who have warm fuzzy feelings about YOU..not the guy BEFORE you :)

[POAS]

9. RNC meet Kharma

[Harry Monroe]

10. I usually wouldn't welcome any more layoff news

But in this case I'll make an exception.

[Democrats_win]

12. Remember, it's not schaudenfreude if it's ironic justice. Right?

Someone wrote a LTE to Denver's newspaper accusing 'liberals' of schaudenfreude for laughing at the fact that a big mouth RW radio talker lost a million dollars because a sponser of his show invested it in Madoff's schene. I'm sure his listeners who invested with the sponser lost big bucks too. Of course the big mouth RW does not want the markets regulated. Ironic justice.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. What's wrong with Schadenfreude?

[MaineDem]

13. The DNC will do this, too. It's SOP.

Many will be rehired.

[dcindian]

14. They need a tax break!!!!!

Oh wait... They already get one.

[Ian David]

15. Aww... my heart bleeds. n/t

[1776Forever]

17. Oh My God this is funny! Howdy - Here's your pink slip! I can hear him say "More money for me!"

:popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn: :rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

18. At first I thought this was going to be satire...

[PassingFair]

19. No fifty-state strategy for them!

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

20. Best. News. Ever.

:rofl:

Those jobs aren't coming back, either. Rumor has it the RNC will eventually outsource positions like "being a big greedy dickhead," "raping and pillaging the middle class," and "religious nutcase" to India.

[Number23]

21. If not the best then certainly the most uplifting.

Justice, indeed! :)

[underpants]

22. I wonder how many will carve a backwards "M" in their faces due to this trauma

M

[No Elephants]

26. Backwards M is really hard, though. Are they up to the challenge?

[hadrons]

23. Who wants to bet alot of the laidoff are thinking 'That f'in n*****!!!'

[MidwestTransplant]

24. All those Bush justice department partisans from Liberty U need jobs.

[No Elephants]

27. Why do they need jobs? Has anyone fired them?