Flight Pundit

Hmm…Does the GOP not understand what is happening with it’s base??

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.

They FIRED ALL of the staff??

What’s going on here??

“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 The first and primary motivating factor was the state of the phone bank technology, which was outdated and difficult to maintain.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.”

Why not keep the folks on the payroll until the new systems are updated?

Is there any truth to this?

There has been a sharp decline in contributions from RNC phone solicitations, another fired staffer said, reporting that many former donors flatly refuse to give more money to the national party if Mr. Bush and the Senate Republicans insist on supporting what these angry contributors call “amnesty” for illegal aliens.

“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’ll admit this: They called me and I told them WHERE TO STUFF their request for donations. Ahem…I also hung up on them. Why? Because the GOP has pissed me off with this Illegal Amnesty Bullshit, that’s why. And I immediately went over to Tancredo’s site and donated more cash to his campaign. Enough said.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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