College Republican National Committee bilking senior citizens

[starroute]

Back in 1971-72, the College Republican National Committee was operating as a school for Nixonian dirty tricks that produced both Karl Rove and Lee Atwater. A decade later, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed came out of the organization. But in 2001 they formally separated from the Republican Party and became a 527 with a specialty in bilking senior citizens.

There were a couple of threads involving this group a week or two ago (that are now archived and thus unavailable until after the election), but this article adds a lot more detail to the picture.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002075044_repubs28m.html

The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of President Bush and other top Republicans.

Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks — sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000 — to groups with official sounding-names such as "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee" and the "National Republican Campaign Fund."

But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks. And little of the money went to election efforts.

Of the money spent by the group this year, nearly 90 percent went to direct-mail vendors and postage expenses, according to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Some of the elderly donors, meanwhile, wound up bouncing checks and emptying their bank accounts.

[displacedtexan]

1. Michael Krueger!!!!!! GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Michael Krueger is the NCRC executive Director. Michael Krueger is merely continuing the "work" of many other notorious National College Republicans Executive Directors, including Ralph Reed and Karl Rove.

What a creepy little bastard.



Michael's my Backside Of The Bell Curve Winner (on my blog) this week!

[Paul Hood]

2. This is disgusting.

But it also fits so well with their party.

[sbj405]

3. Another generation of "compassionate conservatives" in the making

Leaving seniors penniless for the benefit of their party. This is truly an outrage.

[Bozos for Bush]

5. This goes far beyond just the College Republican National Committee

Starroute, myself, and a few others have been working this and other, connected, issues for 3 weeks now. It seems the key is Response Dynamics - pros at scamming seniors for right-wing purposes.

Gary Jarmin is another notorious piece of poop - he has several organizations like Christian Voice, American Christian Cause, and the American Federation of Senior Citizens, that send out scary letters to seniors under the guise of such things as saving social security, and saving medicare. He also uses Response Dynamics, he has documented influence with Bush, he is a member of the Council for National Policy (CNP) like so many other neo-cons, and he is not just a former Moonie - he was a beloved Moonie. He partnered with Tim Lahaye, a top neo-con religious freak and major reason why Bush won in 2000. This guy is dirt. He lives and operates from 208 N. Patrick Street in Alexandria, VA, and deserves any bad luck that comes his way.

When this election is over, those of us who have worked so hard on this huge web of immoral behavior can hopefully gain a larger audience and more help.

John

[JHB]

8. Yeah, those sort of numbers sound familiar...

I remember back in the 80s reading about similar misleading fundraising stats for the big televangelists and their organizations.
They'd get people to donate to seemingly worthy projects but take in far more than the project needed, yet week in and week out turn to their audience playing the pauper.

[yardwork]

4. Doesn't that Robinson guy - the producer of the Sinclair pos -

have something to do with College Republicans?

[Bozos for Bush]

6. Well Ron Robinson runs Young America's Foundation, a YAF spinoff

While I believe a different Robinson was involved in the SBG. Starroute might have better notes on this - most of our research is now archived on DU until after the election.

There is also a Robison International being operated at the same address as CNS News Co., which is ran by L. Brent Bozell III and owned by Eagle Publishing, Inc. Bozell also runs Media Research Group, and both are ran from 325 S. Patrick Street in Alexandria (same street that Gary Jarmin lives on).

Who is Eagle Publishing? The parent of Regnery Publishing, which should strike a nerve in all DU members.

[JHB]

7. Direct mailing: welfare for conservatives

Any "liberal" (left of Attilla the hun) or government organization spent 90% of its income on merely perpetuating that income, conservative would be quick enough to call it a "parasite".

Anyone know what percent of income something like the Sierra Club or NOW spends on fundraising for itself?

[suegeo]

9. South Dakota, related story

http://www.argusleader.com/news/Fridayarticle2.shtml

SD student defends mailings for GOP to elderly

David Kranz
Argus Leader

published: 10/29/2004

A South Dakota college student is an officeholder in a GOP fund-raising group that has collected $6.3 million in an aggressive and misleading campaign this year, mainly from senior citizens, The Seattle Times reported Thursday.

The newspaper said donors were told they were contributing to the election campaigns of President Bush and other top Republicans.

Their checks, made out to "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee," "National Republican Campaign Fund" and other supposed beneficiaries, went to the College Republican National Committee, according to fine print in solicitation letters, the Times reported.

[Bozos for Bush]

10. That article is a bunch of BS

Trying to whitewash the whole thing...fact is, the College Republican National Committee scams seniors with the help of Response Dynamics, which also aids Gary Jarmin in his scams.

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