After months of complying with the Republican National Committee application process and guidelines for securing Press Credentials to cover the Republican National Convention in Tampa August 27-30, 2012 we received a letter today informing us our application has been denied. We are reporting this because we have been lied to by the RNC out right and while we respect the RNC having the right to decide who they want or do not want covering the Convention, we do not believe the RNC has the right to deliberately lie and not be called out on it.

The lie is simple: on Friday July 6, 2012 we placed a call to the RNC inquiring on the status of our application so we could confirm our plans to cover the convention. Below is the call record from our phone activity.