U.S. Chamber Plans $100 Million Campaign Against Conservatives

breitbart ^ | 10/01/2015 | Mike Flynn

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

While many conservatives celebrate the abrupt resignation of Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), business groups backed by mega corporations are finalizing plans to neuter conservative lawmakers in 2016. The U.S. Chamber will take the lead, planning to spend $100 million in 2016, a large portion of which will be devoted to defeat conservatives in Republican primaries. Roll Call reports that “some of business’ top targets in 2016 will be right-wing, tea party candidates, the types that have bucked the corporate agenda in Congress.” The $100 million the Chamber plans to spend this cycle is close to triple the amount the group spent in 2012, when President Obama was running for reelection. In 2014, when the Chamber launched its effort to attack conservatives in primaries, the group spent close to $70 million. The evolution of the Chamber’s political spending goes a long way to explain the current dysfunction in Washington. The organization will devote $170 million to combat conservatives in primaries and support establishment Republicans in the general, but only around $30 million when Obama is running for reelection. At the time business groups announced their heavy involvement in Republican primaries, Scott Reed, the Chamber’s top political consultant said, “the need is now more than ever to elect people who understand the free market and not silliness.” The top legislative priorities for the U.S. Chamber, and many business groups, are reinstatement of the Export-Import Bank, an immigration overhaul that greatly expands the number of both legal workers and foreign work visas, and an overhaul of the corporate income tax.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It was buried in the internals of the latest Bloomberg poll.

Yeah, I know it’s Bloomberg, but the numbers were too huge to be a total fabrication.

[A CA Guy]

Find out who they represent and stop buying from them.

[dragonblustar]

This is so criminal. I know people who are being affected by the HB1 visas workers coming into this country.

You have people who have worked hard for many years, investing long hours for a company, only to be kicked out for cheaper labor. Then these family men or woman are left searching through the ever shrinking employment field trying to find a descent paying job only to be snubbed because the companies want to hire younger, out of college grads.

Then you have few people here at Free Republic making flippant comments saying that those people must not be working hard enough, otherwise they wouldn’t have lost their jobs. What f’n bs.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

I agree with you 100%!!!

It is so very wrong. People can’t even retire at a decent job because of things like HB1 visa workers coming into this country.