from Roll Call:
RSC Urges Job Applicants to Take Conservative SurveysBy Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 26, 2010, 1:06 p.m.
The House Republican Study Committee is asking people who want to work for a member of the conservative group next Congress to fill out ideological surveys on the websites of two conservative organizations.
“Once we receive your résumé, it will be passed along in a binder to each new Member (and to any existing RSC Member requesting to see résumés) for consideration,” reads an e-mail Tuesday from RSC staff, obtained by Roll Call. “We also strongly encourage you to submit your résumé and complete the ideological questionnaires at the following two websites, as we will be checking these questionnaires as well.”
The links to questionnaires on the websites of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and Leadership Institute’s conservativejobs.com site, are pasted into the RSC e-mail. The RSC claims more than 115 House Republicans as its membership.
Two GOP sources familiar with the e-mail said the group uses the questionnaires to learn more about job candidates and that the outside entities are not vetting Congressional staff. .........(more)
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