Republicans Want Google To Stop Filtering Out Their Spam

Senate GOP escalates its attack on Google over email spam

As the party's online fundraising dips, a new draft letter demands that the tech giant give campaigns a mulligan when they run afoul of Gmail's spam filter

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Republican caucus, is preparing to escalate its attack on Google over the company's email spam filter, which it blames for recent fundraising disappointments, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post....

Watchdog groups and email delivery specialists have defended Gmail's automated filters, criticizing the GOP for working to undermine spam detection and Google for caving to the pressure and asking the FEC to sanction a political carve-out. These voices argue that any move to wipe away automated spam detection would reward bad behavior.

The whole situation is pretty well summed up by:

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog, argued in a public comment submitted to the FEC that "misleading and potentially fraudulent fundraising practices" may explain why more GOP emails are flagged as spam....

Gee, ya think? Ya think maybe the party led by a crook who keeps pulling scams like sending fundraising messages with a hidden "repeat this donation every month" pre-checked checkbox might run afoul of spam filtering more often because they send more spam and draw more user complaints?