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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives Outsourcing jobs? Astute business move Parsky Watch #61 June 22, 2004 MAYBE WE SHOULD OUTSOURCE GERRY There are some things in politics that are so elementary, you shouldn’t have to explain them. For instance, you don’t drive to a United Auto Workers rally in a Japanese car. Or, when millions of Americans – including independents and Reagan Democrats – are deeply concerned about the “outsourcing” of American jobs overseas, the last thing you would do is outsource campaign jobs overseas? Right? Wrong. That is apparently what happened, and in California no less -- – and we all know who is calling the shots in California when it comes to matters Bush-Cheney. It seems an Indian – as in India, on the Asian sub-continent – company was hired last year to conduct fundraising and voter canvassing calls from call centers in Noida and Gurgaon, India, according to a report in the June 4 Washington Post. For more than a year, these Indian call centers contacted millions of Republicans soliciting donations of from $5 to $3,000 to support the Bush re-election effort. Since Parsky has made it clear that the GOP campaign winds – including millions of fundraising calls -- do not blow in California without a nod from his imperial self, then we must ask ourselves: how tone deaf can Gerry Parsky be? Regardless of your opinion about “outsourcing,” the reality is it has been a gut issue for a large number of American voters – precisely the kind of independent and conservative Democrat voters we California Republicans depend on to overcome the Democratic registration advantage. Maybe during all those daily LearJet commutes from tony Rancho Santa Fe to his Los Angeles power suite, wearing his noise-canceling Bose Quiet Comfort headphones and pondering his own indispensability, Gerry has simply lost the ability to hear things from an ordinary voter’s perspective – or even with the sophistication of a 16-year old Teen Republican. Or maybe we should just outsource Gerry – we’d still get the same tone-deaf incomprehension of the average California voter, but it wouldn’t cost so much.