Randy Pullen

RNC Mum On Treasurer Who Played Down Stalking Allegations

Zachary Roth | December 17, 2009, 5:47PM

Brett Mecum

The Republican National Committee is clamming up about a top official who said it's no big deal that the executive director of the Arizona GOP allegedly used the party's voter registration database to stalk a woman.

An Arizona woman has filed a criminal complaint against Brett Mecum, the executive director of the state Republican party, charging that he stalked her*. Mecum, the woman alleges, used the GOP's Voter Vault system to find her address, then showed up uninvited to a party at her home, in a way that she found threatening.

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Brett Mecum

RNC-er On Ally Who Allegedly Used Voter List To Stalk Woman: 'We Can Do What We Want With The List'

Zachary Roth | December 16, 2009, 3:36PM

Brett Mecum

Something that jumped out at us in that story about Brett Mecum, the Arizona GOP executive director charged with using the party's voter registration database to stalk a woman: the bizarre response from Mecum's boss.

Here's what party chair Randy Pullen, who is also the treasurer of the Republican National Committee, told an Arizona political site about the claim that Mecum had used Voter Vault to find the woman's address:

The Republican National Committee owns Voter Vault ... It's a private list. We own the list. We can do what we want with the list, quite frankly.

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