RNC FIRES Its Entire Phone Banking Staff

[kpete]

RNC fires phone solicitors
May 31, 2007

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.

"The phone-bank employees were terminated," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt wrote by e-mail in response to questions sent by The Times. "This was not an easy decision. The first and primary motivating factor was the state of the phone bank technology, which was outdated and difficult to maintain. The RNC was advised that we would soon need an entire new system to remain viable."

more at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070531-050131-2781r.htm

[Cleita]

1. How typical. The RNC usual tactic of blaming everyone but

themselves. Now it's the poor telemarketing staff who are only doing what they were told to do.

:rofl:

[FogerRox]

2. I think the RNC should try to hire Howard Dean

You know, someone with experience rebuilding an operation from the ground up.

Yeah sure....

[napi21]

3. They should be happy! Now they won't have to listen to obscenities from me!

Hell, I even swear at the recorded messages I get from the RNC!

[mitchum]

4. Now, there's a layoff that I do applaud

[tabasco]

5. Not crooked enough?

That's the only way to get fired by the criminal republican mafia.

[rurallib]

6. Let's see. Invade a country that didn't attack you. Fire employees

that have nothing to do with making stupid policies that are wrong. I see nothing odd in this.

[Patsy Stone]

7. Anne Hathaway

From The Princess Diaries? Or Shakespeare's wife?

[Richard Steele]

8. They are no longer maintaining the pretense that they serve ordinary working people.

Because they're not even bothering to call them for money anymore, get it?

Big corporate donors and $10,000-a-plate lunches are all they need;
why waste money pretending otherwise?

Does anyone know if they're scaling back their direct-mail ops as well?

[Larkspur]

9. Wonder if they will outsource their phone banking to India?

Wonder what an unemployeed white collar worker who lost his/her job to India will feel if the Republicans use Indian phone bankers to solicit his/her opinions on Republican candidates?

[emilyg]

10. You beat me to it

[cynatnite]

11. Any RW nutjob will go ballistic when they hear the repuke party line...

being spoken by someone with an accent calling from overseas and asking for money. :rofl: