As a result of poor fundraising compounded by controversial spending practices, the RNC will enter the 2012 presidential election cycle between $20 million and $25 million in debt – not the $15 million reported over the weekend.
“It’s the biggest debt the national committee ever had going into a presidential election cycle – at least in my memory,” said former RNC General Counsel David Norcross.
The only apparent bright side is that Republicans’ money-starved national governing body at least may not have to go even deeper in debt to keep the doors open and the lights on through the election of a new national chairman, scheduled for Jan. 14 in Washington, as some veteran RNC members had feared.
“I don’t think we will borrow more money,” Treasurer Randy Pullen told The Times.
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