I've been receiving phone calls from the NRSC for a couple of weeks now. They've been calling me two to three times a day for about a month. The funny thing is, is that I've been ignoring them because I thought it was a bill collector. (Being unemployed is such FUN!)
Caller I.D. shows only NRSC and the number 202 367-9239. Imagine my surprise when the older sounding woman on the other end of the line told me she was from the National Replican't Repliwon't Republican Senatorial Campaign. Me? Me? Me, a lifelong progressive who's voted Democratic in every election for the last thirty years. Naturally, I gave her an earful about how republicans and their teabaggin' ilk are ruining the country, but seriously, WTF?
I traced back the number and it led me to this website for "Strategic Fundraising" here (or not!). Are repubs really that desperate for money that they're contacting Dems....or are they up to no good with some other scheme.
I notice that according to their little press release:
Strategic first opened the doors to its Oshkosh call center in August 2005 with 44 calling seats, finishing the year with $1.75 million raised on behalf of the company’s clients. The site expanded to 58 seats in 2007, 72 seats in 2008, and 88 seats in 2009. Over that time company revenue and fundraising totals for clients increased dramatically as well, with funds raised in 2010 projected to top $20 million.
Wow, small little company goes from 1.75 million raised, to $20 million in five or six years. Smells like Koch brothers to me and somebody's wasting somebody else's money. Anyone else getting these calls?