By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
The Republican National Committee has decided against sending Congressional staffers out on the campaign trail for traditional get-out-the-vote efforts, focusing its resources instead on mailings and other last-minute pre-election efforts, the committee confirmed Tuesday.
The RNC traditionally runs the GOTV operation for Capitol Hill, which includes recruiting and registering staff that want to help the GOP at the state level.
But this year the committee canceled the deployment program to cut costs ahead of the midterm elections. Continue reading ‘RNC Kills Program to Deploy Hill Staffers; Traditional Last-Minute Travel to Get Out the Vote Is Deemed Too Costly’
By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
Republican leaders launched in May an Internet-based initiative to collect public opinion on key issues, saying the effort would lead to a new governing agenda from the party. But when the agenda was revealed last week, only one provision appears to have come solely from that effort.
The rest of the proposals that became part of “A Pledge to America” already existed as a part of other House Republican initiatives or as bills offered by individual Members months before the website was launched.
Only one provision – a proposal to advance major bills one at a time and avoid omnibus legislation Â- seems to have emerged directly from the America Speaking Out website, according to a Roll Call analysis of the agenda.
Continue reading ‘GOP Web Project Contributed Little to Pledge; Most Agenda Ideas Had Already Been Offered’