Posted on 08/29/2003 5:17:10 PM PDT by RaceBannon
ELECTION 2004 GOP outsources fund-raising to India Automated call centers set up to solicit Bush donations
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 29, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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Following the trend of major corporations across the country, the Republican Party is outsourcing fund-raising jobs to India.
The Indian magazine Business Standard reports a team of at least 75 people will man the phones in call centers set up in Noida and Gurgaon, India, as part of a fund-raising blitz.
The operators, hired by HCL eServe, a division of HCL Technologies, are required to telephone people in the United States and solicit their support for President George W. Bush and a donation for the Republican cause.
HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT services and product engineering companies. It has joint ventures with U.S.-based companies Answerthink and Computech.
Let's not confuse outsourcing with graft.
And therein lies the difference - in the Global scheme of things, the Democrats solicit funds from Communist, Socialist, or Totalitarian countries, while
Republicans get funds from democratically elected, constitutional, freedom loving nations.
I for one, as a conservative, agree 100% with the Republicans here. After all, soliciting campaign funds on a global scale was started by the Democrats. To stay competitive, the Republicans had to do the same.
The only difference is, the Republicans stayed true to the values America holds so dear.
That's a lie. He was asked how he was going to SPEND the money.
Why is this not true? Are you waiting for a press release from the RNC?
It could happen...
Too bad this was just an unfounded Internet rumor. I'd pay money just to hear a solicitation from a Hindi.
UPI's Capital Comment for Feb. 19, 2003Published 2/19/2003 4:44 PM
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Scoop, oops ...
In what it says is an "exclusive," the Buzzflash Web site has posted a news analysis that reads as though the Republican Party and the Bush White House had been caught sending telemarketing jobs to India.
Citing a story from the New Delhi Business Standard, the unsigned analysis says, "Bush has launched, surreptitiously, a 'bold' new jobs programs for telemarketers in India. Of course, this 'bold' program means that these 75 jobs have been lost to American workers in need. ... And what will this 'band of young and enthusiastic (Indian) fund-raisers be doing for the Bush GOP Cartel? Why raising money for the Republican coffers, of course."
There are two problems with the story. First, it already appeared in New Delhi's Business Standard; in fact, Buzzflash links to the story on its Web site. It also appeared on the rediff.com Web site -- an Internet portal focusing on India -- and in the Feb. 6 edition of the Washington Times, meaning it's not "exclusive."
Buzzflash says that, with the exception of the Business Standard piece, they were unaware the story had been published elsewhere before they wrote about it. Fair enough. But that leaves the second, and larger problem: It's not true, at least not in the way the analysis implies.
Republican National Committee, through spokesman Kevin Sheridan, completely denies the allegation, telling UPI, "Any report that the Republican National Committee has hired HCL eServe -- the firm mentioned in the original Business Standard article -- is a case of bad reporting, bad business practices or both. The RNC has no affiliation with HCL. Any inference to the contrary is flat out wrong. The RNC has informed both HCL and rediff.com of the inaccuracy of this report."
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Race has been on FR 24/7 complaining how he can't find a job.
JMO, he already has one. As a purveyor of carvile smear tactics.
Now they are hiring people in India to do their telemarketing. Wow, its a sad day for the American worker.
Anything reported by any source other than "FOX News" can possibly be true.
Richard W.
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