Posted on 07/14/2014 7:52:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Business group has been major force in 2014 races.
On the day after New Jersey and Virginia’s gubernatorial elections last fall, Mitch McConnell showed up at a board meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with another race on his mind. He announced that the day’s most consequential contest had been neither Chris Christie’s victory nor Ken Cuccinelli’s defeat. Instead, the Senate minority leader explained, it had been a GOP primary in South Alabama.
The Chamber had shelled out about $200,000 in the sleepy district on the Mississippi border to rescue a mainstream candidate who was struggling to fend off a Tea Party firebrand. The race had emerged as a test of whether the GOP could thwart a conservative insurgency that threatened to swallow it. Backed by the Chamber’s money and muscle, the establishment candidate eked out a victory. If it wasn’t for you, McConnell told the audience, according to two people present, it wouldn’t have happened.
The visit was both a token of institutional gratitude and a sign of things to come....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Loud and clear: Vote against the Chamber of Commerce-endorsed candidates in the primary, and if they win but are no better than the ‘Rat on your key issues, vote for the ‘Rat in the general. It’s time to hoist the black flag and start cutting throats in the effort to retake the GOP.
The Chamber of Commerce might provide the money but they can’t create voters for general elections. I would take a stand in MS and vote for the Democratic in order to teach the GOPe a lesson.
The Chamber of WORLD Commerce cares little about Americans
“I got mine” cronies need a slave class.
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