GOP pays to sign up recruits

[Judi Lynn]

GOP pays to sign up recruits
By Dennis Welch, Tribune
August 19, 2006

The Arizona Republican Party has put a bounty on the heads of voters this year — and their hired guns are cashing in. Republicans are spending $10 for every person GOP organizations and paid strategists recruit to join the party as it looks to increase its registration edge over Democrats.

So far this year, the GOP has doled out more than $300,000 to register nearly 22,000 new members, said Matt Salmon, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.

Although party officials have characterized the effort as a way for the state party to financially help local GOP organizations, it’s been the political operatives that have really benefited.

Salmon said nearly two-thirds of all the money spent has gone to political operatives like noted Republican strategist Nathan Sproul.

Sproul, who is playing a major role on high-profile campaigns such as Len Munsil’s gubernatorial race and the effort to ban gay marriages, was unavailable for comment late Friday.
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=72022



~ Sproul ~

RNC VOTE FRAUD?
Team Bush Paid Millions to Nathan Sproul—and Tried to Hide It
by Mark Crispin Miller and Jared Irmas

All the payments by the RNC to Sproul add up to a whopping $8,359,161. Where did all that money come from? Why did the RNC suppress their real expenditures? And what exactly did Sproul do for all that pay?

In the months before the 2004 presidential election, a firm called Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states. The group--run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona Republican Party--had been hired by the Republican National Committee.

Sproul got into a bit of trouble last fall when, in certain states, it came out that the firm was playing dirty tricks in order to suppress the Democratic vote: concealing their partisan agenda, tricking Democrats into registering as Republicans, surreptitiously re-registering Democrats and Independents as Republicans, and shredding Democratic registration forms.

The scandal got a moderate amount of local coverage in some states--and then the election was over. Now anyone who brought up Nathan Sproul, or any of the other massive crimes and improprieties committed on or prior to Election Day, was shrugged off as a dealer in "conspiracy theory."

It seems that Sproul did quite a lot of work for the Republicans. Exactly how much did he do? More specifically, how much did the RNC pay Sproul & Associates?
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http://baltimorechronicle.com/070505Miller-Irmus.shtml

[tanyev]

1. Oh, wow, I've never seen a picture of Sproul before.

He must be model # GOP2017X, from the chinless series which includes such GOP notables as Phil Gramm and Ed Gillespie.




Quite a contrast to GOP3017X, the priggish twit series, represented well by Ken Mehlman and Ambassador Nicholas Burns.

[pimpbot]

4. A++++++ post

Hilarious. I thought I was the only one that noticed all these creeps look alike. Its like theres some factory out there building these scammers.

[tanyev]

6. Don't even get me started on the ladies.

Model GOP4017Xfem is a radical update of the original model which was itself inspired by the lovely ladies in the Stepford movie. The new model will not only keep the home fires burning, but they'll get up every morning and work on new ways to destroy democracy, all without mussing up their elegant suits, perfectly coiffed helmet hair*, and meticulously spackled faces. Gad! What magnificent fillies!






*Helmet hair also available in many of the popular male series.

[Judi Lynn]

5. I agree with pimpbot. Your post is a little bit o' heaven!

I lost focus, trying to think of other chinless wonders, and got stuck on Istook from Oklahoma, debating his chinlessness, and simply faded away.

It's great knowing you've been watching these things, too! Republicans ARE the oddest!

[Thor_MN]

9. Add Mark Kennedy to the priggish twit series

[tanyev]

12. Twits ahoy, Cap'n!

:patriot:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. GOP plan: Rent-A-Whore

Amazing what $10 will buy, isn't it.

[ShockediSay]

13. WHAT does the Bible say is the root of all evil??? nt

[badgerpup]

14. Not that it matters, since it's Repukes doin' it...

...but isn't this sort of...you know...illegal?
Buying votes, I mean?

[skids]

18. They aren't buying votes...

...what they are buying is plausibility for election fraud.

[RufusEarl]

3. We should organize all DU er's to sign up,

get the $10 bucks. Of course screw the RNC and vote the way we want, might as well take their money it would serve them right.

[54anickel]

7. The money would go to the recruiters, not the recruitees. Though it

would be great to see their roles increase by a huge margin and then have a loarge number of registered Repukes vote Dem.

Personally, I don't believe I could tarnish my name by having it associated with GOP. I signed up for GOP news in the run up to '04 to track what they were up to. I felt the sudden urge to shower with every e-mail and snail-mail piece delivered.

[zalinda]

8. The only up side is that you could vote

in their primaries, and you could get the weakest candidate to have to run against our guy.

zalinda

[xxqqqzme]

11. I've done that many times

when the dem candidate was safe in the primary victory. I always decide which is the more important primary and re-register accordingly.

[54anickel]

15. I'm in Wisconsin, so we're allowed to do that anyway. Open primaries here.

[RufusEarl]

10. Agreed, i wouldn't want to get myself all covered with GOPP!!

[w4rma]

16. Good. May the Republican Party itself become so corrupt and wasteful

that it cannot support itself. I support the fleecing, by Repuke operatives, of the suckers who donate to the Republican Party.

[Senator]

17. The REAL reason for "Registration Edge"

This is not about signing up more people to actually vote for them. Or even about dumping Dem voters.

The reason they're over-inflating registrations is so that they can steal more without detection. More "counted" than registered would attract attention.

This is why random audits of voter-verified, paper ballots, with signature checks/confirmations is required.

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