It’s a Grand Old Party

Joel Bleifuss

The Republican Party has outsourced its fundraising to HCL Technologies. The company has put in place a team of 75 operators who will call asking people to support President Bush and give money to the Republican Party. The telemarketers will work out of the company call centers in Noida and Gurgaon, India.

Joel Bleifuss, a former director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the editor & publisher of In These Times, where he has worked since October 1986.

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