Here is the thirty-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is the The entire NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) for stealing donations from their opponents. I received this in email.
TomCat,
Now this is truly insane. The National Republican Congressional Committee is tricking would-be Democratic campaign donors into making donations to defeat the candidates they support — with Republican websites that look like they could easily be the campaign pages of Democratic candidates.
Unless site visitors read the fine print on the landing pages and the donation forms, it’s very easy to see how they could think these web sites were those of the Democratic candidates.
As ThinkProgress reported yesterday:
Ray Bellamy of Florida says he was tricked by the page and accidentally made a donation to the NRCC. “It looked legitimate and had a smiling face of Sink and all the trappings of a legitimate site,” Bellamy told the Tampa Bay Times. The look-alike page uses the same colors as Florida candidate Alex Sink’s campaign, with the URL sinkrocongress2014.com. Once entering information, the person is redirected to an NRCC thank-you page.
The NRCC launched the mock sites to target Democratic candidates they say are “frauds,” but if this is some sort of lame attempt at satire it’s way off the mark. It’s nothing more than a dirty trick and it’s reprehensible.
They are making a mockery of democracy and they’re swindling people. Join the petition now and tell the NRCC to stop it immediately.
Thank you for all you do.
— Alex Hart, Online Team
Sources:
http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2014/02/warning-calling-them-frauds-national.html
Republicans have weakly claimed that this does not truly represent them, but I disagree. The NRCC is an official organ of the Republican Party. Kudos to PFAW!!
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This seems awfully reminiscent of the days of “I am not a crook!”. It’s unbelievable that the Repuglicans are this stupid! They know its wrong! Just seeing how long they can get away with it and how much money they can swindle is going to be the way to go for the ’16 election! They are doing this to make people be scared to donate to anyone for fear it will be used against their candidate! That is their reason for doing this!
Typical action by a bunch of thieves and liars. Would you expect them to act any better? Not I.
Is there no new low to stoop to?
This is right out of the Karl Rove playbook.
Just in case you did sign and lost the follow-up email:
~~Now that you’ve signed our petition to the NRCC demanding they take down the misleading sites (thank you), follow up on that action by taking the next step: File a phishing complaint with Google and with the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
Google: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
Email a complaint to US-CERT at phishing-report@us-cert.gov
These are the URLs we know about that we ask you report:
http://contribute.AnnKirkpatrick.com
http://contribute.SinemaForCongress.com
http://contribute.RonBarber2014.com
http://contribute.sinkforcongress2014.com/
http://contribute.johntierney2014.com/
http://contribute.martha-robertson.com/
http://renteria4congress.com/
I saw at Daily KOS : Google slaps phishing warning on misleading GOP website !:) I hope the FCC fines them big!
Nothing they stoop to is surprising. I signed the petition.
"The NRCC launched the mock sites to target Democratic candidates they say are “frauds,” …"
Frauds???
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
Based on the definition, the REAL frauds are the Republicanus/Teabaggers who can win no other way than to commit election fraud.
The only good Republicanus/Teabagger is an unemployed Republicanus/Teabagger!
Thanks everyone. Great links, Joanne.
~~THANK YOU for taking action!
Signed and Shared…