GOP denies outsourcing fund-raising

Date: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:36 AM

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The GOP denies that they are outsourcing fund-raising and told
WorldNetDaily that it's "It's plain not true." This is going to be an
interesting battle that I intend to watch. If the Republicans are
outsourcing to India there will be other news agencies that will verify
Worldnet's story.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34390

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

GOP denies outsourcing fund-raising

Indian journal reported party using local call centers

Posted: September 3, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Describing it as a pernicious rumor that presidential Democratic
candidates have eagerly gobbled up and run with on the campaign trail,
the Republican National Committee denies outsourcing fund-raising to
Indian call centers.

WorldNetDaily cited a report by the New Delhi-based Business Standard
that a team of at least 75 people were slated to man the phones in call
centers set up in Noida and Gurgaon, India, as part of a fund-raising
blitz.

The business journal said operators, hired by HCL eServe, a U.S.
subsidiary of HCL Technologies, would be required to telephone people
in the United States and solicit their support for President George W.
Bush and a donation for the Republican cause.

"It's plain not true," RNC spokeswoman Christine Iverson told
WorldNetDaily. "It's not us."

A check of Federal Election Commission disclosure reports through July
22 by WorldNetDaily confirm neither HCL Technologies nor eServe
received disbursements from the RNC. Answerthink and Computech, two
U.S.-based companies that have joint ventures with eServe, are also not
listed.

The Business Standard did not name the Republican National Committee
and reported only that the "U.S. Republican Party" had contracted with
the Indian firm.

Iverson speculated the report, which first surfaced in January and
since has been picked up by various news organizations including the
Washington Times and, most recently, the London-based newssite
Inquirer.com, could be referring to some other Republican Party entity
or conservative organization.

There are several other Republican groups that operate nationally but
are separate from the RNC, including the Republican Governor's
Association.

"We have tried so hard to beat this down," Iverson said, adding that
the RNC's legal counsel had sent letters to the Indian magazine but had
been unsuccessful in getting them to remove the story from its online
archive.

Iverson said she didn't think the RNC even employed call centers within
the U.S. for its fund-raising.

According to its website, HCL Technologies is "one of India's leading
global IT services and product engineering companies ... with a
presence in 14 countries" and a clientele that includes 40 Fortune 500
companies and some 330 others around the world.

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