Posted on 04/18/2011 9:49:17 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) may be in the sights of Tea Party activists ahead of 2012, but the Utah Republican has given help to two of his Senate colleagues who face conservative primary challengers themselves.
Hatch's political action committee — OrrinPAC — donated to both Sens. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) during the first quarter of the year, according to the PAC's March filing with the Federal Election Commission. Both Republicans are Tea Party targets in 2012.
Hatch's PAC donated $1,000 each to Lugar and Snowe in February. Asked about the donations, Hatch campaign manager Dave Hansen said the senator "traditionally has given to his Republican colleagues who face reelection."
Hatch has wooed Tea Party activists in his home state and has taken a bit less flak from conservative activists over the past year than have Lugar and Snowe. In Indiana, Lugar has openly sparred with Tea Party backers.
Hatch's February donations came on the same day he donated to four other GOP senators up for reelection in 2012. Hatch's PAC also gave $1,000 to the reelection campaigns of Republican Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), John Barrasso (Wyo.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.).
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Do these old farts think the world would end if they retired.
RINOs are the ultimate disaster, I wish the GOP was not just the DNC Lite.
1. We need to make Orrin wish he had held on to his cash.
2. Where are all the RINO sympathizers who think we should only focus on removing democrats?
I think they all want to die in office during a scession then they get a better funeral.
Just say NO to old RINOs.
Dump em all in the primaries and send congress a message.
Utah Tea Party needs to do to Orrin what they did to Bennett last election. Mike Lee is a star. They need to rinse and repeat! Lugar and Hatch are the longest serving Republicans in the Senate and both of them need to go and take Olympia with them!!
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