Posted on 03/28/2014 8:22:00 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican House Speaker John Boehner will spend next weekend at a Ritz Carlton event hosted by an anti-tea party group devoted to fighting conservatives within the GOP.
Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will be among 28 House members attending a $5,000-a-head event hosted by The Republican Main Street Partnership’s advocacy group, Red State reported. Donations will reportedly go to the anti-tea party super PAC Defending Main Street, which by February had received most of its funding from labor unions.
The event will be hosted at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Nassau County, Florida.
The Republican Main Street Partnership and its affiliated Main Street Advocacy group are headed by former Rep. Steve LaTourette, who has committed himself to raising money and running ads to defend centrist congressional Republican candidates from tea party primary challengers.
“They have decided to systemically go against center-right Republicans in primary elections,” LaTourette previously told The Daily Caller, referring to his tea party rivals. LaTourette said that tea partiers are happy to call him a “RINO” but that that they go “apoplectic” when the “RINO gets a gun” and “fires back.”
“Here’s the deal: we didn’t start this fight,” LaTourette said, “but I’m going to finish it.”
LaTourette’s efforts challenge those of conservative House members like Rep. Louie Gohmert, who recently launched his GOH Conservative PAC to fight back against establishment Republican fundraising efforts.
Gohmert criticized Boehner Thursday after the Speaker rushed a seemingly doomed bill to extend Medicare reimbursements through the House with a “voice vote” while many members were still in their offices instead of on the House floor. Gohmert said “you need to be able to trust your own leadership.”
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Ted Cruz may be good today, but that’s no guarantee of the future. A lot of Senators started out good, then went really bad. I don’t think you can be in the Senate more than a few years and stay conservative. They all go bad, eventually.
He isn’t the speaker now. Pelosi is. Boehner even made a Freudian slip admitting as much.
Yesterday I received a survey from Boehner which also requested a $35.00 to the RNCC along with the survey. Amazing isn’t it we elect them pay them $174,000 a year or more to set on their hindquarters and they want money to know what the voters are interested in? Yeah! Send it to the RNCC! Or Carl Rove!Same difference! Now with the Supreme Court decision we can see that it gets to the conservatives we want- who know what we want!!!
Someone get in there with you recorder.
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