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.
“Everyone donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue,” said the former employee.
I’d say the biggest reason is that cold-calling people for campaigning only works for the die-hard, will only vote for a certain party types anyways. Everybody else just gets pissed off at them.
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Wow, the republican party IT techs are extra lame. I could rebuld them a 65 line phone system in a week for under 10k.
Replican party are you listening? Call me I’ll give you a quote.
My father, who wanted to “help Republicans out” during the 2004 campaign, donated about $50 to the Republican party. He got a nice thank you letter and all was well. However, about a month after that, phone calls and mail solicitations came pouring in from all city, county, state, and national Republican party people, annoying him to no end. Thus, he swore he’ll never donate a single red cent to the Republicans ever again.
#3 – Soak ’em Greg!!! I think what you REALLY mean is 65 lines for 100K!
#4 – So obviously, to make things right, he needs to send $50 to the Democrats.
Oddly enough, it’s always the “right” who feeds me bullshit about “if ya got nothing to hide” whenever I go on one of my privacy tirades. So ask your father, “who’s the paranoid loonbat now?” đ
People – it’s okay to donate. It’s smart to do it anonymously.
6. LOL, just desserts. But send your money to Dr. Paul.
>Itâs smart to do it anonymously.
Yeah. And it’s not just the political parties. Donations to MoveOn.org will get you on solicitation lists too. I’m not sure if it’s phne lists, but definitely your e-mail will be shared.
Soak âem Greg!!! I think what you REALLY mean is 65 lines for 100K!
10K sounds about right, if you base it on Asterisk. No money in there for profit or support, but it’s enough to get a system going.
I could do a 48 line system for 10K back when Dialogic was king. (Sans support, profit, etc.) Well, 15K anyway.
We used Asterisk last November for GOTV calls. It was VERY effective especially since we routed the calls to a wholesale voip provider.
#8 – You are right. That’s the nature of political activism, left or right.
I gave my email to a Bill Richardson staffer yesterday. If I suddenly see a spike in email traffic I’ll let you know.
#7, mark, But send your money to Dr. Paul.
Nay, send that money to me, I promise to never call or spam. He’s already got money and I’m just a consultant, I need it more than he does. But I sure hope he runs.
they fired em so they could hire immigrants and pay them less, that way they can afford a new phone system
#13, I was thinking along the same lines. They could hire âundocumentedâ workers to fill those jobs that no American wants.