In a surprising announcement today, Kerry-Edwards headquarters announced they were sending virtually all of their campaign contribution call center operator jobs overseas to a call center in India run by Infosys.

"Effective tomorrow, Thursday, August 19th, all operators will be laid off from the Kerry-Edwards call-center. These jobs will be relocated to a location in India. As part of the Kerry plan to not leave any American behind, all operators will be welcome to come join the Kerry-Edwards team there. We hope that you will be able to join us there, and if not, we thank you for your service and ask that you continue the mission," an email circulated to employees stated that was forwarded to Investigative Reports.

A spokesman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign said that the move was a cost cutting move to help with the fundraising discrepancy between the Bush and Kerry campaign. "Since our funds cannot keep up with Bush's big spending corporate sponsors, we had to find ways to make better use of our money. These Indian workers are amazing, they are intelligent, well-educated, work for about 1/5th of the money that our current workers were being paid, and some of them even speak English coherently."

The Bush campaign jumped on the news, saying this only bolsters the prevalent feeling among Americans that the only thing Kerry stands for is something different than yesterday.

"Here Kerry was bashing Big Corporate for shipping minimum wage jobs overseas, and now he joins the movement by shipping his own campaign workers over here," said a spokesman for Bush. "How [Kerry] doesn't find this ironic beats me."

In response to the Bush campaign comments, the Kerry camp stated that, "Our supporters should be excited about the announcement, as their contribution will be more effectively used." The spokesman added that it wasn't a total loss to soon-to-be former workers. "Each and every call center comrade has the option to continue their work with us, as they all were invited to join the Indian team by simply flying out to Bangalore and showing up Thursday morning." He added later that all those accepting the offer, "should expect a minor pay cut."