Faced with significantly declining contributions from grassroots donors, the Republican National Committee has fired its entire team of telephone solicitors, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times.
"Faced with an estimated 40 percent falloff 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 and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, fired staff members told The Times," Ralph Z. Hallow wrote in the paper. Read more...
Awww...couldn't happen to a more deserving party. The formerly well-oiled machine that was the RNC is reduced to laying people off and unable to afford new equipment for their phone banks. The Moonie Times not unexpectedly cites Bush's stance on immigration as the cause, but it's obvious to anyone who has paid attention that the Republican Party is experiencing death by a thousand cuts and immigration is not the major problem.
