Posted on 08/21/2015 4:35:54 AM PDT by jimbo123
Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are opening the tea party’s door for Republican Jeb Bush, whose time as Florida governor preceded the movement. It’s a valuable opportunity for a presidential contender whose competition is some of the tea party’s biggest success stories.
On Friday in Columbus, Ohio, Bush is making his first appearance at the annual summit of Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs’ flagship conservative organization. He’ll address an expected 3,000 activists as the conference’s keynote speaker.
That debut comes after the Kochs introduced Bush earlier this month to some of the most generous donors in their political network. And about a month ago, Bush shared the stage with a top Americans for Prosperity official at a town hall in New Hampshire, the first primary state.
Such overtures are giving Bush the chance to develop goodwill among activists and donors aligned with the tea party, a small-government movement that came to prominence two years after Bush left office in 2007. A strong performance in Columbus could help him poach some of the very activists who worked to elect the movement’s 2010 and 2012 election darlings, presidential contenders Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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When did all that become "conservative"?
Yeb’s really an OK kinda guy—just in the WRONG party, is all.
Seems to me the perception is campaign weakness.
When did the Kochs become doorkeepers for the Tea Party?
The phone calls to voters that AFP sets up do a remarkable job of spending a ton of money to annoy a ton of voters. I’ve seen it first hand.
¡Yeb! wants to President of North Mexico.
There’s nothing conservative about abandoning the rule of law.
Ugh, just awful. Bush and the GOP have made it clear they hated the Tea Party and wanted it gone.
NOW they are trying to make this big lump of an amnesty pimp “Tea Party”.
Got me, If I would have thought the Tea Party was owned by big business, I would never have attended a rally.
When did all that become "conservative"?
When conservatives bought the big lie that the GOP genuinely believed in the same things.
Good luck trying to convince me to vote for your GOP-e whores in 2016, you C of C pimps.
Mr. niteowl77
And the wrong country. His heart is not in America.
How much must each attendee pay for the privilege of being talked at by this left-wing troglodyte?
There’s so much wrong with this article, I don’t know where to begin.
Just because the Koch Brothers accept you doesn’t mean the Tea Party will.
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