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bobbyw24
10-23-2009, 04:36 PM
The Bill for GOP.com: $1.4 Million
Digg Tweet By David Weigel 10/23/09 6:14 PM

Luke Rosiak has the scoop, reporting that the site cost five times more than the Democratic National Committee’s Website.

In the months prior to the October 13 launch of GOP.com, the committee paid $328,000 to 11 firms for Web development. (The Democrats, which did not completely overhaul their site during that time period, spent $45,000 on Web development.)

Also, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele hasn’t blogged in 10 days. On the plus side, for conservatives, that’s $1.4 million that didn’t go to NY-23 GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:UPRJB2dKyye0nM:http://blog.myxer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/digital_underground.jpg
Michael Steele Back in the Day??

http://washingtonindependent.com/65033/the-bill-for-gop-com-1-4-million
kahless
10-23-2009, 04:40 PM
11 firms are laughing all the way to the bank. They could have just used grassroots supporters and open source to develop the site. That would have just left hardware and hosting costs.
brandon
10-23-2009, 04:42 PM
lol they got ripped off.
JoshLowry
10-23-2009, 05:58 PM
And people are grilling me for $800 bucks!

:p
ClayTrainor
10-23-2009, 06:00 PM
LOL!

And these guys run on the platform of being Fiscal conservatives? I could build a website like that for free... what a joke...

I need to find a client like the GOP that i can take to the cleaners....
JoshLowry
10-23-2009, 06:01 PM
Did you see the $18M for Recovery.gov?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html
ClayTrainor
10-23-2009, 06:03 PM
Did you see the $18M for Recovery.gov?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html

The waste government participates in is staggering... my god...

I wonder what friends of Washington got the contract to build the site...
bucfish
10-23-2009, 06:03 PM
And people are grilling me for $800 bucks!

:p

I just hope Josh was one of those that got a piece of the pie.
specsaregood
10-23-2009, 07:07 PM
Obviously nobody on the GOP side actually realized what was involved. I wish I could charge my customers that much, insanity!
Mahkato
10-23-2009, 07:34 PM
This is the site that had 404s on their launch day, correct?
ScotTX
10-23-2009, 08:15 PM
I just think its funny that Ron Paulers have taken over their forums! Man, why do I want to be in this party again???
specsaregood
10-23-2009, 08:18 PM
This is the site that had 404s on their launch day, correct?

Even worse, this is the site that had their admin password publicly available on their launch day.