Posted on 07/24/2015 1:47:37 PM PDT by cotton1706
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is gearing up to challenge some House Republicans in primary elections, frustrated after much of its agenda has been stymied by a small pocket of conservative GOP lawmakers.
The influential and well-heeled business group is already eyeing several races, but the plans are still in their infancy and the targets have not yet been decided upon, according to more than a half dozen Republican sources on K Street and Capitol Hill.
The group’s apparent new willingness to engage in hand-to-hand political combat to take out sitting Republicans would represent a major shift for the business community, which has largely shied away from targeting sitting lawmakers.
House GOP leadership sources say they’re unaware of and don’t support any attempt to target sitting GOP lawmakers. But the Chamber’s internal dialogue comes as House Republican leaders have struggled to maintain discipline in their ranks. Recent attempts to crack down on dissenting lawmakers have backfired.
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Corrupt bastards!!
I absolutely despise these SOBs.
No conservative is going to support the Commerce’s bought-and-paid for RINO in the general election.
Thanks for the heads up. My Congressman is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and he is very well loved around here, definitely a guy to be defended!
The House races are, more than ever, the battleground this year. I wish someone could get people to care half as much as they should.
Several of the new RINOs will be going down in a presidential year election. The GOPe is desperate enough to try to take out sitting conservatives. If conservatives fight back against some sitting RINOs...
I’d take a President Hillary if it came with a conservative House Leadership.
Ya?
Well the Tea Party is geared up to defend Conservatives and fire the RINOs.
The Chamber of Cronies can’t compete with a fired up Conservative base!
There has been a common misconception, that the Chamber of Commerce is somehow a “Republican” organization.
Perhaps most of the members have purchased a RNC card, usually with a very large donation or series of donations, but in turn, they want “considerations”.
And the “considerations” include an agenda that is sometimes totally at odds with the public positions taken on whatever planks go into the party platform. This repeated fraud has been seen, notated, and the whistle blown at many junctures in recent years, and suddenly, a well-respected incumbent finds hard choices being thrust at himself -get in line with this other agenda, or you are out, capish’?
The Mafioso delivered their messages more subtly.
Time to root out and publish Chamber supporters/donors and let them know your business will be taken elsewhere
My, how times have changed.
It used to be that you could count on the Chamber of Commerce for support if you were a GOP incumbent or a challenger running against a Dem.
It sure now looks like the CofC has become part of the crony capitalism network.
No problem. Just tell us who the Chamber members are, and we stand thousands strong outside their establishment until they get common sense.
TEA Party preparing to severely trim the Bushes.
Once the hard right gets control of DOJ there’s going to be lots of people in the COC and RNC that are going to have a problem.
The key is not just to destroy the satanic communist democrat party but the blue bloods and country clubber GOP oligarchs too.
Known members
Jim Jordan of Ohio, Chair
Matt Salmon of Arizona
Justin Amash of Michigan
John Fleming of Louisiana>br> Scott Garrett of New Jersey
Raúl Labrador of Idaho
Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina
Mark Meadows of North Carolina
Ron DeSantis of Florida
Curt Clawson of Florida
Tom McClintock of California
Gary Palmer of Alabama
Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma
Dave Brat of Virginia
Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
Mo Brooks of Alabama
Jody Hice of Georgia
Barry Loudermilk of Georgia
Tim Huelskamp of Kansas
Steve Pearce of New Mexico
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
Trent Franks of Arizona
Ken Buck of Colorado
David Schweikert of Arizona
Paul Gosar of Arizona
Mo Brooks of Alabama
Scott Desjarlais of Tennessee
Morgan Griffith of Virginia
The Chamber of Commerce is a conservative’s enemy.
Boner deserves a tough opponent in both races.
A Pantheon
We can’t take anything for granted. If you love him, call his hdqtrs and offer to help out. Too many of us underestimate the evil stacked against us.
I hope you’re right but the CoC and RINOs did pretty well defending “their turf” last cycle. Cochran, Graham, Cornyn and McConnell are all back in DC.
Did conservatives score any victories?
And wasn’t there something about campaign financing in the Cromnibus that’ll make it even harder to unseat incumbents?
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