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Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans (politico.com)
Politico reports:
Staffers for Senate Republicans' campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system, three sources with knowledge of the breach told Politico... Multiple NRSC staffers, who previously worked for the NRCC, used old database login information to gain access to House Republicans' donor lists this year. The donor list that was breached is among the NRCC's most valuable assets, containing not only basic contact information like email addresses and phone numbers but personal information that could be used to entice donors to fork over cash -- information on top issues and key states of interest to different people, the names of family members, and summaries of past donation history... Donor lists like these are of such value to party committees that they can use them as collateral to obtain loans worth millions of dollars when they need cash just before major elections...
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
"The individuals on these lists are guaranteed money," said a Republican fundraiser. "They will give. These are not your regular D.C. PAC list"... The list has helped the NRCC raise over $77 million this year to defend the House in 2018... Though the House and Senate campaign arms share the similar goal of electing Republican candidates and often coordinate strategy in certain states, they operate on distinct tracks and compete for money from small and large donors.
Long-time Slashdot reader SethJohnson says the data breach "is the result of poor deprovisioning policies within the House Republican Campaign Committee -- allowing staff logins to persist after a person has left the organization."
NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed," one source told the site.
More Republicans in jail. I like it.
But at least they got the Estate Tax repealed and increased taxes on those lazy post-grad students.
America was made great on the backs of people like Paris Hilton and Donald Trump Jr.
Alleged tax cuts for plebes are temporary. Republicans don't cut government spending, they just shift the burden from rich people and taxes to poor people and "usage fees". Although this bill actually increases taxes on people making 75-250k.
Also, property tax deductions are capped and temporary.
People who disagree with me are not real members of my tribe.
I know this goes over the heads of idiots who are totally ignorant of history but here's the micro-summary:
1. A core principle of Western Civilization since the signing of The Magna Carta is that the ruler is no longer above the laws he administers. Trash that idea, and you live under a tyrant who can make-up the laws and enforce them arbitrarily on a whim and human progress of centuries is erased.
2. Bill Clinton signed a law into effect that said any American male accused of sexual harrasment could be dragged into court and made to testify under oath about his entire sexual history - he got popular with women voters for signing that law and as chief law enforcement officer of the US he oversaw the justice department that happily enforced that law on all the other men in America who ran afoul of it.
3. Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harrassment and was dragged into court and forced to testify under the very law he signed and took political credit for... and he lied. His own justice department, acting on his authority, would jail any other man in America who purjured hi9mself in this way. The American people saw their president on national television violating the core principle of the Magna Carta and all government law that descneds from it. This was in many ways worse than Nixion since Nixon was at least not breaking the very laws he himselft signed into effect.
THAT is why Clinton was impeached. The articles of impeachment do NOT cite a blow job as a cause, the cite his lies under oath in court in violation of the law he signed into effect and was responsible for upholding and enforcing.
Learn some history, and try thinking a little deeper about government, principles, and precedents. By doing what he did, Clinton lit the match on a lot of the lawlessness we see rippling through government these days (on the part of both Republican AND Democrat politicians and officials) and even Democrats are finally starting to admit that they protected Clinton purely for political power at the time and that it was probably wrong.