Republican Curry-ency is Still Calling
Republican Curry-ency is Still Calling
Date: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:46 AM
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
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Bush was asked by a reporter at a press conference last month how he
planned to raise $170 million for the primaries and he responded,
"Watch me."
Apparently the entire world is watching - and they are having a very
good chuckle. That's because the Republicans are outsourcing their
fund-raising to India. Bush's recent speech that he was going to create
jobs for Americans sounds very hollow when it's revealed what the
Republicans are up to.
The news about this Republican sell-out of U.S. workers was reported by
the Washington Times in February, but at the time a Republican
spokesman totally denied that anybody in their party was outsourcing
their fund-raising. Apparently the "cat's out of the bag" and now the
Republicans can no longer deny the truth.
The earlier article "Republicans Curry-ency Calling" can be found at
this link:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q246614D5
The WorldNetDaily.com article originally appeared online in January but
apparently it's back due to popular demand.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=11219
US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India
Whole world's gone batty - official
By Adamson Rust: Wednesday 27 August 2003, 08:49
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in
India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.
Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone American
citizens to enlist their support and money for the political party,
with plans to extend the scheme if they whip up enough donations.
There's a high degree of automation involved in the process, according
to Indian newspaper the Business Standard, which says that HCL Eserve
is handling the business for the party.
India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has stayed that way
since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, courtesy of the
Labour Party.
The magazine claims that "human intervention" is limited because of an
integrated voice recording technology which picks up on clues from
people that pick up the phone.
We do hope and trust here at the INQUIRER that the irony of underpaid
people in Harayana helping robots to call possibly out of work
Americans because of a widespread policy of corporate outsourcing is
not lost on our readers. 5
L'INQ
Gurgaon
Business Standard
Friday, August 29, 2003
ELECTION 2004
GOP outsources fund-raising to India
Automated call centers set up to solicit Bush donations
Posted: August 29, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34323
) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Following the trend of major corporations across the country, the
Republican Party is outsourcing fund-raising jobs to India.
The Indian magazine Business Standard reports a team of at least 75
people will man the phones in call centers set up in Noida and Gurgaon,
India, as part of a fund-raising blitz.
The operators, hired by HCL eServe, a division of HCL Technologies, are
required to telephone people in the United States and solicit their
support for President George W. Bush and a donation for the Republican
cause.
HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT services and
product engineering companies. It has joint ventures with U.S.-based
companies Answerthink and Computech.
"We cannot comment on any client-related issues as a policy," the
magazine quotes the HCL eServe spokesperson as saying.
An automated system eliminates any concern of problems arising from a
language barrier.
"The process is designed in such a way as to limit human intervention.
The company wants to complete the process using the integrated voice
recording technology, which allows navigation using voice responses,"
an insider told the magazine.
This marks the first time, according to the journal's sources, the GOP
has opted to outsource drumming for dollars instead of relying on its
public relations firms. A successful anti-abortion campaign run by HCL
eServe for an unamed U.S. politician may have played a roll in the
decision to switch gears.
Bush has previously set fund-raising records, according to the
Associated Press. In 2000, he bypassed public financing and its
associated spending limits during the primaries and raised more than
$100 million. Last year, he set a single-event record by collecting
more than $30 million at a GOP fund-raiser.
When asked by a reporter at a press conference last month how he
planned to raise $170 million for the primaries Bush responded, "Watch
me."
As of the end of June, Bush had raised $35 million.
Party leaders aren't resting on their laurels. A fund-raising e-mail
sent by campaign chairman Marc Racicot Wednesday night seeks to portray
the president as the underdog in the cash race, according to the AP.
"Democrats and their allies will have more money to spend attacking the
president during the nomination battle than we will have to defend
him," Racicot wrote. "If you need more convincing the president needs
your help, consider what the Democrats are saying. The race is just
starting, but their rhetoric is already red-hot."
U.S. outsourcing has proven to be a boon for the Indian economy.
According to the National Association of Software and Services
Companies, the Indian business-process outsourcing sector has seen a
four-fold increase in employment from 25,000 in 1999 to 106,000 in
2002.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062028268625.html
Fund-raising for Bush outsourced to India
By Online Staff
August 28, 2003
It was coming sooner or later - call centres in India are now engaged
in raising funds for the US Republican Party.
A report in India's Business Standard newspaper says 75 people are now
engaged in the task of calling people in the US, soliciting their
support for US President George W. Bush and requesting a donation to
the party.
HCL eServe, the company which won the contract, earlier handled an
anti-abortion campaign for an American politician.
The Business Standard quoted sources as saying that the process was
designed in such a way to limit human intervention. The company
apparently uses integrated voice recording technology which allows
navigation using voice responses.
Copyright ) 2003 The Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/03/124.html
The Republican Party
Next time you hear a Republican complaining about how Democrats are
un-American, ask them this question: why is the Republican party
outsourcing its fundraising activity to Asia? That's right, believe it
or not, and despite the patriotic God-Bless-America rhetoric the party
likes to spew, the GOP is using call centers in Gurgaon and Noida in
India to raise funds for the party and for George Whistle-Ass Bush's
presidential campaign. "Enthusiastic fund-raisers" in India will now be
cold-calling American familes (probably either right around dinner-time
or at six o'clock in the morning) using a panhandling process which
involves a "high degree of automation in order to limit human
intervention." So basically the GOP is employing robots in India to try
and scrounge money off of Americans. How patriotic. Seems to me that we
have plenty of unemployed people in America right now who could do this
job, but then that would probably be too expensive and you can hardly
blame the GOP for wanting to look abroad for cheap labor. I mean, duh.
Geez, you'd think we wanted them to stimulate the economy or something.
Not that most of the unemployed people in America are going to want to
do jack shit for George Whistle-Ass Bush anyway, and rightly so. Hey, I
have a question: if the Republican Party is leaving America, does that
mean they don't love it any more...?
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