The College Republicans
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They keep getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar earlier and earlier these days. Anyone know if UCSD's CR clan was involved?

The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of President Bush and other top Republicans.

Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks—sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000—to groups with official sounding-names such as "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee" and the "National Republican Campaign Fund."

But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks.

And little of the money went to election efforts.

The Seattle Times has a story that I think you should read.

Nom de Guerre, Nov 01 2004, 02:36 AM
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