GOP Accuses Texas Group of Outsource Scam

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee filed a complaint Tuesday accusing a Texas group of posing as a GOP organization to raise money by phone using an Indian telemarketing firm and through fund-raising mailings.

The fund-raising telephone calls prompted false, widespread rumors that the RNC was outsourcing its donor phone calls to India, the committee's complaint to the Federal Election Commission says.

The complaint accuses The Republican Victory Committee, based in Irving, Texas, of impersonating the Republican Party and fraudulently raising money by telling prospective donors it was being solicited by the GOP for use by Republican candidates.

Jody Novacek, one of those named in the RNC complaint, said The Republican Victory Committee is a tax-exempt, political organization raising money for get-out-the-vote activities around the country.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-republicans-india,0,1782655.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[htuttle]

1. Never run a side scam without The Family getting it's vig!

Someone's going to end up at the bottom of the river...Nobody steals from the Bushes...

[Tansy_Gold]

2. What I don't understand is why this is "late breaking news."

The information about GOP fundraising being done in India is old news. Six months? A year? At any rate, we here on DU have known about this for ages.

But the RNC is JUST NOW filing suit?

I'm really sorry, Mr. Gillespie, but GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. What tracks have you covered, hmm, Mr. Gillespie? Whose palms have you greased, whose asses have you smooched, hmmm, Mr. Gillespie?

Yeah, YOU, Ed. You sniveling curl of worm dung.

sheesh, but I hate these booshies.

[struggle4progress]

3. It's cover. Voters hear "GOP/Outsourcing/India" and think ...

... "Oh, yeah, that scam" rather than "I can't believe the GOP did that."