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RNC Small Donor Database Panned As A Publicity Stunt
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... campaigns are supposed to collect this information in the event that small donors become big enough that they have to be disclosed by name, employer and occupation. Presumably the GOP has this... As a transparency tool it is pretty dull. As a political tactic it is a bit sharper because the other side has done nothing of the sort and has not even responded to watchdog calls to say more about their small donors."
Indeed, the RNC database is far from complete. As. Jake Tapper, over at ABC, notes:
[W]hen you search "Joe Smith" you have no idea of knowing ...
RNC Small Donor Database Panned As A Publicity Stunt
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... campaigns are supposed to collect this information in the event that small donors become big enough that they have to be disclosed by name, employer and occupation. Presumably the GOP has this... As a transparency tool it is pretty dull. As a political tactic it is a bit sharper because the other side has done nothing of the sort and has not even responded to watchdog calls to say more about their small donors."
Indeed, the RNC database is far from complete. As. Jake Tapper, over at ABC, notes:
[W]hen you search "Joe Smith" you have no idea of knowing ...
Daily Digest: The Mobile Voter Double Whammy?
techPresident —
... . The thing is, the thing doesn't actually work -- at least, not in any meaningful way. As ABC's Jake Tapper the results provide no data on a donor's address, occupation, date of donation, or, really, anything other than first name, last name, and contribution amount. Do a search for "Joe Smith," and, says Jake, "you have no idea of knowing whether it's Joe Smith the Republican state representative in Missouri...or Joe Smith the actor who played 'Connie Hawkins' in the 1996 TV movie "Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault." ...
