Posted on 09/13/2015 9:17:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CALLS CLUB FOR GROWTH ‘A PACK OF THIEVES’
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY 29 Aug 2015. NASHVILLE, Tennessee–In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP front runner Donald Trump is firing back at the Club for Growth.
“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.
Trump was attending the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, which describes itself as “the grassroots Republican wing of the Republican Party.”
“They [the Club for Growth] came to my office looking for money. I turned them down. That’s why they’re after me,” Trump told Breitbart News.
Earlier in the week, the Club for Growth attacked Trump for his proposal to penalize Ford Motor Company for putting a car manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than Tennessee.
“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth, said in a statement.
“It should thrill liberals and Democrats everywhere that Trump wants to create new taxes and start a trade war to force American companies to work where he demands,” McIntosh added.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The Club for Growth is a well-known, established conservative organization. Attacking them is not wise.
Funny. Let the CFG forward it’s salary list and an accounting of contributions vs. any actual work done.
They attacked him earlier today
Many of the members are, apparently very pro unlimited immigration
Earlier in the week, the Club for Growth attacked Trump for his proposal to penalize Ford Motor Company for putting a car manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than Tennessee.
“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth, said in a statement.
What a putz, this McIntosh is.....Trump’s stand AGAINST sending American jobs to Mexico is going to cost American jobs?
Not to mention the shakedown they tried - and FAILED - to give Trump. He told them what to do with their Cheap Labor Express policies.
Trump is the ONLY candidate who cannot be/is not being bought.
What’s their position on immigration?
So you say.
I do not give spit for any established political group.
Main Street couldn’t care less about CFG. CFG is stepping into the Trump trap. A few weeks after the debate Trump will be at 40%+!
Bunch of free traders who want to export American jobs. Big supporters of Cruz.
The Club for Cheap Labor you mean?
That’s not what it looks like to more than a few people.
Bullsh!t
Club For Growth = Sharpton = Rove = Jackson
Shakedown artists, one and all.
Club for Growth is focussed primarily on economic issues.
Here is their mission statement.
“The Club for Growth is a national network of over 100,000 pro-growth, limited government Americans who share in the belief that prosperity and opportunity come from economic freedom.”
There’s one rich money man, however, who embraces Cruz’s anti-government bent: Secretive hedge-fund guru Robert Mercer of Renaissance Technologies. Mercer has reportedly donated at least $31 million to help elect Cruz, which is more than Cruz has raised from other sources during his entire political career.
Since he began campaigning for the 2012 Senate race in Texas, Cruz raised about $18 million, not including any Mercer money. His single biggest donor has been the Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group funded by wealthy contributors including industrialists Charles and David Koch, private-equity baron J.W. Childs and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel. The group has given Cruz $706,000 since 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Among corporate donors, the oil and gas industry has been Cruz’s biggest supporter, even though it ranks seventh in spending among all candidates. Support from energy firms is hardly surprising, given that Cruz is from Texas. Law firms came next, followed by the securities industry and real-estate concerns. Here are Cruz’s top donors since 2011:
Robert Mercer. The hedge fund magnate has battled with the federal government, which claims his firm, Renaissance, avoided paying several billion in taxes through artful tax strategies. So Mercer’s interests seem to align with Cruz’s animosity toward the IRS. Mercer’s money will reportedly be split among 4 super PACs, with each presumably taking a different role in the way they advocate for Cruz.
Club for Growth: Amount donated to Cruze since 2011: $706,000.
Senate Conservatives Fund: $316,000.
Woodforest National Bank (community bank based in Houston): $112,000.
Goldman Sachs: $69,000.
Morgan Lewis LLP (Philadelphia-based law firm with significant energy-sector practice): $68,000.
The $69,000 from Goldman is one of the largest sums employees from the Wall Street firm have donated to a single candidate during the last few years. The firm has given money to well over 100 candidates since 2012, but only six got more from Goldman than Cruz — and two of them were Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Heidi Cruz, the candidate’s wife, manages investments for wealthy clients at Goldman’s Houston office, so personal connections may have helped raise the money. (Heidi Cruz announced she’ll be taking a leave of absence from Goldman during her husband’s campaign.)
Corporations tend to spread political donations widely, since they can come from many individuals at a firm, plus their family members. It’s not unusual for firms to donate to candidates of both parties, as Goldman did with Romney and Obama in 2012. Other big corporate names on Cruz’s donor list include Credit Suisse (CS) ($33,000 from 2011 to 2014), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) ($33,000), Anadarko Petroleum (APC) ($30,000), Valero Energy (VLO) ($27,000), Koch Industries and Wells Fargo (WFC) ($26,000 each). Each of those firms gave to many other candidates, with Cruz typically snagging a middling amount.
“The Club for Growth is a national network of over 100,000 pro-growth, limited government Americans who share in the belief that prosperity and opportunity come from economic freedom.”
By offshoring jobs, pay for endorsement, back room deals, and hypocrisy?
Naaah. Bunch of crooks. The Don has em nailed 100%.
Looks like RINOs galore...
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“Club for Growth backs 5 Republicans, including Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio”
They USED to be much more focused on economic issues, when under their former head, Chris Chocula. He’s a Hillsdale grad and actually differed with W. Bush on IMMIGRATION. (Nice guy who would actually take and return phone calls.)
Their new guy, McIntosh, is clearly on board the Cheap Labor Express and has completely overplayed his hand by trying to shake down Trump.
I sent them their recent donation letter back with a rebuke for how they’ve gone after Trump, and have jumped aboard the immigration/Cheap Labor wagon.
But what’s their position on immigration?
My understanding is that they’re run but mostly Wall Street types which tend to be for amnesty.
I’m for Cruz—but he had better learn how to communicate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, national debate champ... He sounds as though he thinks his audience is slow. Result: BORING!
I’ll bet Trump talks at 200-250 WPM—i.e., like a human, and Cruz usually talks 100-150 WPM.
I was listening to another Cruz interview on radio. Agreed with 150% of what he said. But the nasal voice and the stammering are IRRITATING. “I-I-I...” “A-a-a-and...” It’s not a clinical stammer, I’m sure of it. I KNOW he’s not searching for the next word!!! It’s a mannerism he developed along the line. He needs to get rid of it.
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