Posted on 08/22/2013 5:59:36 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
Senior GOP aides of a super PAC linked to Speaker John Boehner are lobbying House Republicans to pass the Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill, legislation that Boehner has said he will not bring to the House floor.
The lobbying effort is coming under the umbrella of the American Action Network, a nonprofit 501(c)(4) action tank led by former senator Norm Coleman, which is touting the major positive economic impact of the Senate bill in e-mails sent to individual House Republican offices.
AAN is housed in the same office as the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with Boehner, and the two organizations share senior aides, including Brian O. Walsh, the president of both organizations, and Dan Conston, the spokesman for both.
Boehner spoke at a fundraiser for CLN earlier this summer and also headlined the organizations inaugural event. The groups website has posted links to numerous news stories that refer to the group as Boehners super PAC.
The AANs e-mail, sent to GOP offices, touts the number of jobs the group estimates the Senate bill would create for the congressional district and state of that office. The group also released an embeddable widget that allows users to find out how many jobs the Senate bill would create in the district of their representative.
Conston, the spokesman for both AAN and CLN, said the analysis, based on the Senate bill, is simply about broadly showing the local economic benefits of reforming a broken visa system a problem House Republicans want fixed.
If similar studies are produced showing the economic benefit of House legislation, you can be sure well produce a similar product, he added.
Still, AANs efforts to tout the Senate bill ruffled feathers on the Hill where some aides were not pleased to feel pressure from Boehners super PAC to pass legislation that Boehner and the rest of GOP leadership has dismissed as dead on arrival in the House.
The Speaker has been clear that the Senate bill will not be considered by the House, and that we will insist on fixing our broken immigration system through a step-by-step approach that starts with securing our borders and enforcing our laws, Cory Fritz, a Boehner spokesman, said when contacted about the AANs push for the Senate bill.
The American Action Forum, a third organization housed at the office where AAN and CLN both reside, 555 13th Street NW, Suite 510 West, is a 501(c)(3) think tank led by noted GOP budget guru Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
Conston noted AAN has supported the Houses step-by-step approach on immigration in the past. For example, a press release announcing an effort to push the House GOP to embrace immigration reform broadly launched at the outset of the August recess said, We support the Houses effort to deal with immigration reform in a methodical step-by-step conservative way. Conston also said AAN has supported immigration reform since before CLN was brought into existence in October 2011.
During consideration of the Senate bill in the upper chamber, senior GOP aides aligned with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and others helped push the bill across the finish line, the Huffington Post reported in June.
Wish something would leak out so we could sink this bastard and be done with his treason.
There has to be rumors of what they have on him.
Exactly.
It's sickening. Freepers defending Rubio's betrayal because he ssys he is for all other conservative goals. These politicians make promises to lobbyists, and that matters to them more than the voters. When GWB teamed up with Kennedy to push his amnesty bill he didn't care if he destroyed the GOP as a conservative force (or maybe that's what he did want). Here we go again.
” It’s sickening. Freepers defending Rubio’s betrayal because he ssys he is for all other conservative goals. “
Fortunately, only the dumbest do this : )
” These politicians make promises to lobbyists, and that matters to them more than the voters.”
And the lobbyists raise big money for them in return.
” When GWB teamed up with Kennedy to push his amnesty bill he didn’t care if he destroyed the GOP as a conservative force “
One of the 106 reasons I despise GWB.
Didnt they swear the same thing about Romney and McCain then rally around them in the general 2008 and 2012?
‘Vote for Romney or Obama death panels will kill us all’
'I thought you hated him'
'That was then this is now.'
That reminds me of a well deserved 'I told you (all) so'. NA-NA-Na-NA (SOL Childishness LOL)
Whose been consistently preaching that lack of citizenship will kill a deal?
That is why it always creeps in. They will always sneak it in, Cruz seems to understand this clearly.
If I had a representative worth calling I would focus on how unfair and destructive handing them citizenship would be(many reasons easy to articulate) , and that would do the rest.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Lets start that conversation by acknowledging we arent going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not against amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
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