TPM: Wheel of Fortune

We finally got an interview with someone from BMW Direct, the GOP direct mail firm whose business model includes fleecing GOP donors on behalf of obscure, often minority, candidates and then skimming off most of the contributions for itself and its affiliates. Good work if you can get it.

Our calls to the firm last week went unreturned, but we got lucky when we called again late today and Jordan Gehrke, BMW Direct's director of development, answered the phone. We called to ask specifically about complaints we'd received from another BMW client whose campaign had seen precious little of the contributions it was paying BMW to solicit.