What's particularly interesting is that this is a conservative new site that's raking this muck. DailyCaller:
The Republican National Committee at the end of last year struck a deal with the Michigan Republican Party that if the state party could raise what turned out to be a half a million dollars for the RNC from its donors, the committee would immediately give the money back, in a scheme apparently devised to increase the RNC’s 2009 fundraising numbers.
“It was a known secret that a deal had been struck on the topic,” a former RNC official confirmed to The Daily Caller.
“I think the benefit to them was them getting guaranteed money,” the source said of the Michigan GOP, “and the benefit to the RNC was getting higher fundraising numbers.”
RNC spokesman Doug Heye, contacted by a reporter Tuesday afternoon, did not comment.
Michigan’s August primaries are later than other states, and the funds came when all eyes were on another election in another state. When $250,000 was disbursed to Michigan in January — the same month of the competitive Massachusetts senate special election — the Massachusetts GOP only received $42,000.
