Debt-Ridden GOP cuts its assistance to local counties

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Here in California, the Democratic Party is adopting the 58-county strategy.  But the GOP is doing exactly the opposite:

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the verge of a presidential election year, the California Republican Party is slashing funds for key operatives as the party struggles to overcome lackluster fundraising and lingering debt.

At the end of the year the state party will eliminate what is called its county executive director program, which distributed about $260,000 a year among about a dozen counties to assist with fundraising activities and grass-roots organizing.

I don't know, maybe they could get all the people paying to surreptitiously gather petition signatures to bail them out.

But the bottom line is: The CRP is bankrupt because their donors hate Bush:

Party members say fundraising has been dampened by, among other reasons, Bush's immigration plan, which many conservatives have called a giveaway to illegal workers.

Bush is the give that keeps on giving.