Angry in the Great White North

NGP Campaign Office is the leading fundraising and compliance software for Democrats and their allies. It makes fundraising, donor management, data management, and campaign finance compliance reporting easy.

Two-thirds of federal Democratic incumbents use NGP Campaign Office.

KEY FEATURES OF NGP CAMPAIGN OFFICE:

• Manage donors, contributions and pledges
• Organize volunteers and canvassers
• Merge letters and send broadcast e-mails directly out of NGP Campaign Office
• Customize fields and codes unique to your needs
• Generate event, pledge, and volunteer reports
• Integrate NGP Campaign Office with QuickBooks
• Generate FEC/state reports suitable for electronic filing
• Integrate NGP Campaign Office with your Web site and components of your online campaign

I suppose that FEC feature isn't all that useful, what with Bob Rae being a Canadian politician who needs to report to Elections Canada.

But then maybe Bob Rae paid this American company to customize a reporting package that complies with Canadian requirements.

I noticed something else.  Bob Rae's site is bobrae.ca, right?

But then the entire site is duplicated on another subdomain bobrae.ngphost.com.  Almost all the internal links go to pages hosted on bobrae.ngphost.com, except for the header navigation, which for some reason still links to bobrae.ca.

What I haven't figured out is if these are two independent websites (which makes no sense) or if one set of URLs is redirecting to another (but I can't detect a redirect in one direction or another).

Given that Bob Rae has shifted his donations to the NGP subdomain, it would stand to reason that the original Bob Rae pages are also now on the NGP subdomain.

It might be interesting to learn just how much Bob Rae spends on American help to raise money from, and communicate with, Canadians.