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RNC Mailer Includes Phone Sex NumberThe bad press keeps coming for the Republican National Committee.
Fresh on the heels of a scandal over a nearly $2,000 charge to the RNC at a bondage-themed nightclub comes word that a fundraising mailer the organization sent out included a phone number leading those who called to a phone-sex line offering "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute."
Politico has the story. The phone number included on the mailer is a 1-800 number that points callers to a different number offering a chance to chat with "real local students, housewives and working girls from all over the country." (You can listen to the call here; for mature ears only.)
The RNC said the situation arose because the vendor who made the mailer mistakenly used the 1-800 prefix instead of the correct 202 prefix. It did not tell Politico how many copies of the mailer were sent out.
While the phone sex number is the aspect of the mailer that will garner most of the attention, it was an isolated mistake; more pernicious in the eyes of many critics is the mailer itself, which was designed to resemble a census form.
The phone sex line was only discovered, in fact, because one of the people who received the mailer called the number to complain to the RNC about the fact that its fundraising solicitation looked like a government document.
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"live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute."
BY David Saltonstall
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Thursday, April 1st 2010, 12:41 PM
The former Alaska governor has asked the RNC to remove her name from an official invite to a New Orleans fundraiser next week, even though she'll be in the Big Easy for a separate GOP event.
The one-time Republican vice presidential nominee "will not take part in any RNC fundraiser in New Orleans," an aide told Politico.com.
The apparent snub comes days after federal disclosure forms showed the RNC spent nearly $2,000 earlier this year at Voyeur, a high-end, West Hollywood club known for its nearly naked staffers and live S&M acts.
Aides to Palin insisted her refusal to appear at the New Orleans event had nothing to do with the Voyeur scandal.
But fallout from the GOP's risque business expense has continued to roil the party.
Many big givers are said to be re-directing their cash away from the RNC and its chairman, Michael Steele - who has been under fire for months for lavish spending - and toward the party's more austere Senate and House campaign funds.
Internally, the RNC also axed the staffer who led the expedition to Voyeur, Allison Meyers. It was Meyers who got the RNC to reimburse the GOP reveler stuck with the evening's $1,946 tab.
Meyers headed the RNC's Young Eagles program, a fundraising effort aimed at the under-45 crowd which has also been suspended in the wake of the scandal.
All Young Eagle events - including a swank steeplechase event in Virginia's horse country - have been cancelled pending a review, according to an e-mail from a top RNC official obtained by Politico.
"We will also be looking at staff structure and measures for checks and balances," the e-mail noted. "We will devise a plan for moving FORWARD with the club."
While Palin may be ditching the RNC, she is still expected to headline a gathering next Friday for the Southern Republican Leadership Council in New Orleans.
RNC attempted to regain the high ground on Wednesday by noting that the Democratic National Committee also spends big bucks on plane travel, limousines and fancy events.
Some of the bigger ticket DNC events included $26,000 for tickets and food at Boston's Fenway Park, $13,316 at the Lucky Strike bowling alley in Washington, D.C., and a hefty $63,953 last October at Chicago's upscale Standard Club.
But DNC officials quickly noted that the RNC expose revealed nothing X-rated.
Jabbed DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan: "The DNC, unlike the RNC, does not conduct business at sex clubs with lesbian bondage themes."
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