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Posted on 11/23/2013 8:35:26 PM PST by SoConPubbie
First elected in 2010, Amash has ranked #1 on the fiscally conservative, pro-economic growth Club for Growth scorecards out of 435 members of the House of Representatives in both the 112th and current 113th Congress.
The seven donors (J.C. Huizenga, Mark Bissel, Mike Jandernoa, Mark Murray, John Canepa, Marge Potter, and David Frey) are so angry with Amash's voting record and his support for Ted Cruz's efforts to defund Obamacare they recently sent out a public letter of support for Ellis.
The undated letter, distributed in early November to Republican donors on "Brian Ellis for Congress" stationery, was signed by all seven big donors and criticized Amash on several fronts:
Our current Congressman voted against the final version of the Paul Ryan Budget that would cut $5 trillion in spending - and he was the only Republican from Michigan to do so. He refused to vote in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. He voted against a 20% tax cut that would allow small businesses to create and retain jobs here in Michigan. Just this month, he and a small group of like-minded legislators rejected Speaker Boehner's plea to pass legislation requiring Congress and the President to be subject to Obamacare, and put on hold the special new tax on medical equipment. This irresponsible action hurt over 50 great West Michigan businesses and was part of the chaos that led the nation to the edge of default.
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The establishment of both parties dominate in MI. Even the first George Bush won there in 1980 against Reagan.
Let the GOPe suck wind.
Then we need to send a few $$ to Club for Growth or to Amash, directly. Fight fire with fire.
Our current Congressman voted against the final version of the Paul Ryan Budget that would cut $5 trillion in spending - and he was the only Republican from Michigan to do so. He refused to vote in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. He voted against a 20% tax cut that would allow small businesses to create and retain jobs here in Michigan. Just this month, he and a small group of like-minded legislators rejected Speaker Boehner's plea to pass legislation requiring Congress and the President to be subject to Obamacare, and put on hold the special new tax on medical equipment. This irresponsible action hurt over 50 great West Michigan businesses and was part of the chaos that led the nation to the edge of default.
How do you, or he, respond to that?
That explanation mirrors another vote Amash cast in 2011, when House Republicans freshly in control of that chamber passed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
Amash explained after that vote he had neither abandoned his pro-life stand nor did he want to fund Planned Parenthood, but its being singled out was troubling."
Non traditional.
If ranking #1 is not a traditional conservative, then what is a traditional conservative? No more moderate, no establishment candidate, we need to elect common sense tea party candidate to save our union.
If Amash’s opponent is taking money from Crossroads PAC, Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, etc...Amash’s opponent is not Conservative
Amash has some questionable votes....but his support to defund ObamaCare is a conservative vote...and his opponent is being supported by those who support ObamaCare
Cannot get a handle on this. Patience.
My fury with the GOP and the way they treat us is boiling over.
Understatement of the decade.
*Amash ping*
“If ranking #1 is not a traditional conservative, then what is a traditional conservative?”
What the speakers mean by traditional conservative is someone who talks conservative to the voters and casts meaningless “conservative” votes (eg, on the bill itself after they votef for cloture) and then, when pork or government power is on the line, votes in favor.
When these “traditional Republicans” oust the TEA Party conservatives, no TEA Party conservatives should vote in that election. The Democrats will win and then they can tax the hell out of those wealthy donors, who only are concerned with their money and not the future of the nation.
What goes around, comes around....and TEA Party conservatives should remember who the enemy is: Big Government supporters in both parties.
Not one thin dime for the GOP. Never again.
Very interesting. (ping)
Our current Congressman voted against the final version of the Paul Ryan Budget that would cut $5 trillion in spending - and he was the only Republican from Michigan to do so. He refused to vote in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. He voted against a 20% tax cut that would allow small businesses to create and retain jobs here in Michigan. Just this month, he and a small group of like-minded legislators rejected Speaker Boehner's plea to pass legislation requiring Congress and the President to be subject to Obamacare, and put on hold the special new tax on medical equipment.He's a RINO, and a CINO, and a LINO.
Justin Amash is not a conservative, he ‘s a Paultard (I normally prefer the word “Paulistinian,” but since Amash is of Palestinian descent I wouldn’t want to be misinterpreted). He sucks at the teat of the L. Ron Paul cult, and votes in the way he figures that Ron Paul would. Amash is far from a social conservative—he refused to vote to defund Planned Parenthood, and then he voted against a bill to ban sex-selection abortions. Amash goes a step further than even Ron Paul in his support for Iran’s dangerous and anti-Semitic regime, opposing any U.S. efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and becoming Ahmadinejad’s biggest cheerleader and sycophant in Congress; his voting record is reflexively anti- national security, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist terrorist. And like all true Paulbots, he is soft on protecting the border against illegal immigration; I don’t believe that A ash has of yet parroted Paul’s call for legalizing heroin, but give him time. Amash is a true RINO and CINO, running as a Republican and claiming to be a conservative solely because he knows that if he ran as a Libertarian Party candidate he would lose.
It is risible that Amash is seen as a hero by those who decry “career politicians,” given that Amash is the closest thing to a career politician in Congress (at least among those with an R next to his name): he ran for office soon after graduating from law school (I think his experience working in the private sector were a few months helping out at his family business and a year as a corporate lawyer), being elected to the state house as a 28-year-old and then conning MI-03 voters to electing him to Congress as a 30-year-old.
As far as I’m concerned, Justin Amash can ask for donations from his Iranian and Islamist friends and from Paulbots; he does not deserve a dime from conservatives, even if his Club for Growth rating is 100. Conservatives in the Grand Rapids area have had enough of Amash’s antics, and he’ll get voted out next year. I wish that Republicans in Brazoria County had rid us of Ron Paul 30 years ago and we could have avoided his anti-Semitic, anti-family cult infiltrating our party.
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