GOP cash woes threaten fall gains

[impik]

This is so sad.....








KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Republican National Committee is entering the fall election season with dire financial problems and, to an unprecedented degree, will be forced to rely on outside groups to fund activities traditionally paid for by the national party

With $11 million on hand at the end of June — and about $2 million in reported debt — the RNC’s paid get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort will be limited to just targeted House races, POLITICO has learned.

And the committee is only going to be able to spend money on those relatively inexpensive House races, thanks to a $10 million line of credit that was approved at the meeting here. Until then, said one incredulous Republican, there was no money available for paid GOTV activities like mailers and automated phone calls.




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[KingFlorez]

1. Good

[NC_Nurse]

2. They will benefit from the Supreme Court's odious Citizen's United decision.

Unfortunately.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Yes. Maybe the corporate class is withholding $$ from the party

because they intend to spend it themselves in ways that permit them to totally control the message. The result will be interesting.

[Raine1967]

3. This is NOT good --

Who do you think funds the Tea Pariers?

Outside *groups* like Freedom Works.

Outside Groups with be nothing more than astro turfers and corporations that WILL make use of the SCOTUS decision regarding Citizens United. This is very bad for democracy and actually VERY VERY good for the GOP.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. They must be spending thousands on signs though

they are everywhere!

[Arkana]

6. The Citizens United decision will make sure the Republicans are

never hard up for cash.

Plus, everyone's forgetting the "shadow RNC" that Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie have set up.

[rasputin1952]

7. There is a distinct possibility that after the mid-term...

there may be a Republican party.

If they go down in flames, (something I feel is possible/probable for actually losing seats, it's all over). In all honesty, the R's I speak to out here in Nebraska are thoroughly disgusted w/their party. The GOP has no plan, nothing worth crowing about and no leadership. Average R's are sick of their party doing nothing more than holding up legislation and coming out w/stupid talking points.

We are witnessing the self destruction of a major political party, something that happens perhaps once a century...and I've got a front row seat...:D

[The Magistrate]

8. Hear Hear, Brother!

The odds for the fullness of that are still long, but they are dropping week by week. There are certainly going to be some red-faced pundits come mid-November....

[rasputin1952]

10. I've been politically active from the age of 8 when JFK ran...

I cannot recall any time where a party won when they could not come up with a plan, or even an answer for the questions lobbed at them.

The only thing the GOP is telling people is that will cut taxes, (a constant), and they will take us back to the bush insanity. Not many will vote for that. The have no platform, they are losing money at an astounding pace, and when they lose voters out here in the Midwest...it's all over.

I would be laughing for years to come if Boehner was not re-elected, although that is an extremely slight possibility, people are sick of "nothing" and "no". As long as the D's have a plan, they will be doing just fine in the midterm...:D

[DFW]

9. No, they don't. In fact, they're a plus for the crazies

Steele won't have a voice to counteract the extremists, who now have what is as good as unlimited funding
Not that Steele and the RNC have been taken seriously by Republicans for a year now. But now, the extremists
don't even need to pretend--all they have to do is say the RNC has no cash, and claim that Rove & Co.'s money
is the only funding they can get, and legitimize themselves that way.