The College Republican National Committee said yesterday it has terminated a long-term contract with a direct-mail fund-raising company that brought the young-conservatives group a steady income but also complaints about aggressive and misleading solicitations.
The Seattle Times and the Durham, N.C., Herald-Sun reported in October that the College Republicans and Response Dynamics Inc. were raising millions of dollars from donors, many in their 80s and 90s, using a barrage of letters that convinced the donors they were helping President Bush's re-election campaign.
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Hoplin said he has been trying to end the contract for years. But it was written in a way that made that difficult because College Republicans were kept in debt to the Virginia direct-mail company, he said. The relationship continued, Hoplin said, despite misgivings about the tone and tenor of the fund raising.
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The group's fund-raising letters often made it sound like the donors were making crucial contributions to the presidential race and in some cases implied Bush himself was counting on the money. But in fact, the money went to College Republicans, with about 90 percent of donations going back to fund-raising costs and fees to Response Dynamics and affiliated firms, according to reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002194230_collegerepublicans02m.htmlPoor baby GOPers. On the bright side, they've learned a valuable lesson on the importance of opacity in the art of trickery and deception.
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