Republicans outsourcing their fundraising telemarketing

[doni_georgia]

This was a story on Air America last night. The Republican party is outsourcing their fundraising telemarketing to India. We have gotten more than one call in the last month from the RNC asking for money. Both calls have been clearly Indian callers who grossly mispronounced my last name (my last name is of Welsh origin and has a lot of silent consonnants - all of which both callers tried to pronounce). Kerry needs to pickup this story - big time!

[Paradise]

1. This should be suitable for this kind of media news, as well.

http://www.johnkerry.com/onlinehq/mediacorps/

Scroll to bottom of page:

"Also, if you ever read or hear cases of unfair coverage of John Kerry, please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail] (just put “media alert” in the subject line)."

[TrogL]

2. Can you just bloody imagine a Freeper getting one of those phone calls

[nosmokes]

3. story and a link - this is good - hee!

Bush campaign ran from Noida call centre
KA Badarinath and Prerna K Mishra
New Delhi, May 16
The political split in the US over outsourcing notwithstanding, till very recently the fund-raising and vote-seeking campaign for the Republican Party was done partly out of India. And this was handled by two call centres located in our own friendly neighbourhood in Noida and Gurgaon.
For 14 months between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, HCL BPO Services — the 100 per cent-owned subsidiary of Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies — had some 125 agents working in seven teams soliciting financial contributions for the Republican Party. US presidential elections are slated for November 2004.
HindustanTimes

edit - figuring out html linkage stuff

[freetobegay]

4. They have been doing this since 2001!

Nothing new here.