RNC fires all 65 phone solicitors

[Coexist]

from the Washington Times (yes, I know...)

"The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.

Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee's chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times.
The national committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week ago, but denied that the move was motivated by declining donor response to phone solicitations.

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Fired employees acknowledged that the committee's phone equipment was outdated, but said a sharp drop-off in donations "probably" hastened the end of the RNC's in-house phone-bank operation."

Funny, Howard Dean hasn't had to let anyone go.

:smoke:

[C_U_L8R]

1. bankrupt policies

naturally lead to more bankrupcy.
Did they expect otherwise ??

[liberaldemocrat7]

12. I bet they received loads of Bush dollars with Bush looking like A Mexican president.

I saw a graphic made by freepers with Bush on a bill of currency $0 looking a bit Mexican and a serial number made up of numbers to look like the word ILLEGAL above Bush's picture they show an ostrich with its head in the sand with Mexican people rushing across the border. The point: People send this $0 bill to protest the Republiklan party not dealing with the immigration situation.

Apparently the RNC might have received a lot of these LOL.


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[sandnsea]

2. "effective immediately" = 65 more Democrats

One would think.

>>Gosh, 40% more people hate us than did a year ago, can't figure out why. Eureka! Let's fire the >>least paid among us, not give them any notice, and see how that works.

Idiots.

[gatorboy]

7. Yeah but...

Would you want them?

[sandnsea]

8. Zealous converts?

Hell yes. How do you think we're going to win if we don't get converts?

[gatorboy]

9. Convert to the party for gay marriage?

I don't see it. These folks aren't pissed because they have suddenly realized what are horrible president Bush is. They're pissed because he wasn't as bigoted as they had hoped. As far as I'm concerned they can stay out of the voting process all together.

[sandnsea]

10. What's that got to do with it?

Most Democrats aren't for gay marriage now.

I'm talking about regular working people, going about their business, getting fucked exactly the way Democrats always say Republicans fuck the little guy. You think a number of them won't see the light?

[gatorboy]

11. If it's taken this long? I doubt it.

But, hey. Stranger things have happened.

[sandnsea]

14. They're probably young kids

Phone bankers? They're usually unskilled 20-somethings. Most likely to become disillusioned with the right wing. Our target audience.

[papau]

3. outsourced jobs to India is my guess. n/t

n/t

[Frustratedlady]

4. Good thought. I'll just bet you are right.

They should have put them to work tracking down those missing emails on the RNC system. You'd almost think they didn't care. :sarcasm:

[Coexist]

6. lol! their base will just LOVE that!

[TomClash]

5. Nothing like eating your own nt

[Tyler Durden]

13. Three words: "The Whig Party."

Nothing lasts forever; we just might be lucky enough to see the death of the Republican Party.