College Republicans are screwed
Take note they are the backbone for conservatives on college campuses and their fundraising ability will be taken away since no one will donate to a sketchy group. Also, it looks like they are in legal hot water and are very defensive since they won't respond.
This is big, the next generation of GOP are screwed. Even their local chapters are jumping ship.
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DURHAM -- Local and national GOP officials are distancing themselves from a Washington, D.C.-based college Republican group that has used aggressive and misleading tactics to raise millions of dollars from elderly people.
Meanwhile, a top state official on aging said she would address the group's fund raising at the next meeting of the N.C. Senior Consumer Fraud Task Force so that more families are aware of the issue. She said the pattern of its donations -- with seniors repeatedly giving money several times in the same day or week -- raised questions about the group's tactics.
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Because the CRNC solicits under different names, such as the National Republican Task Force and the National Republican Victory Campaign, many seniors have donated to the group repeatedly, often several times in a single day or week. Many had made more than 50 donations since January, sometimes totaling thousands of dollars.
When asked about their giving, many of them had little understanding of how much they had donated or where their money was going. The group's high-pressure mailings, which often play on senior citizens' emotions, suggest that the money would help re-elect President Bush and other Republicans. But according to the Center for Public Integrity, which monitors campaign spending, the CRNC has spent at least 83 percent of its proceeds since 2000 on direct mailings and other fund-raising expenses.
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State elections director Gary Bartlett said his office doesn't have jurisdiction over 527 groups except for monitoring their spending and financial reporting. He said the practices reminded him of the "high-charged tactics" of sweepstakes and prize patrols in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"It certainly was an eye-opener to me," Bartlett said of The Herald-Sun's report this week. "Whether or not there have been any kind of violations of state or federal law, I don't know."