Washington, D.C.
The Republican National Committee has suffered a 40 percent falloff in small-donor contributions, largely because of anger over President Bush’s immigration reform push, The Washington Times reported last week. The donor backlash prompted the committee to fire all 65 of its telephone solicitors, RNC sources said. The GOP base is up in arms over Bush’s plan to create a method for nearly 12 million illegal immigrants to gain legal status—a process critics consider amnesty. An RNC spokesperson said the firings were due to problems with the phone bank equipment and not from any drop-off in donations.
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