NewsWhore
10-22-2007, 05:00 PM
The PLD party's national campaign committee has called a halt to the RD$1000 gifts to drivers who put PLD posters on their vehicles. A report in the Diario Libre revealed the new publicity stunt last weekend after looking into a traffic tie-up on one of the main thoroughfares of Santo Domingo. Drivers were lining up to get the RD$1000 pesos and placing a large, transparent decal on their rear windows. There was a promise of RD$1000 per month until the May 2008 elections. In Santo Domingo and Santiago, hundreds of vehicle owners lined up to get the easy cash. According to a press release from PLD headquarters, "the party is suspending the operation because it is not necessary to pay anyone to display a PLD poster." The party's campaign committee also said that the whole thing did not come from the party itself, but was most likely thought up by businesspeople linked to the party.
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