Posted on 10/18/2013 6:19:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As government doors reopened Thursday following a painful, 16-day economic odyssey, some of the nation’s top business groups were taking a hard look at their political strategy.
Specifically: how to counter Tea Party members who brought the country to the brink of default.
The political arm of the National Retail Federation said it was reviewing 25 different primaries and would likely invest in challengers in a small group of them.
“This was a man-made disaster. This didn’t have to happen,” David French, the National Retail Federation’s top lobbyist, told the Sun-Times on Thursday.
“There is an underlying concern with a small number of folks who align with the Tea Party where the end goal is a political consolidation of a nascent movement of activists. That’s not our goal.”
Still, French noted that pouring money into an opponent’s race wasn’t going to be enough to avoid recurring crises.
“Politics is a contact sport,” French said. “There’s a robust movement by the Tea Party. If we’re going to counter it, it’s not going to be done effectively by using a couple of thousands of dollars.”
French said his group is developing a “local, organic” strategy that would mean sending reps to local town hall meetings to advocate from the business standpoint........
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Also, look on the bottom of the Board's page. You can email them. I would hope a few blue dart emails will emanate from the keyboards of some feisty freepers.
It also wouldn' hurt to attach a link to this thread so they can see what their customers are thinking.
These snobby boards think that we in flyover country are beneath them. Of course, we hold the power of the purse...and without us, the only boards they'd be sitting on would be at their high schools' baseball games.
What really gets me is Obama's strange and continuing hold over the thinking of otherwise intelligent and educated people. It's one of the wonders of our time. This almost hypnotic influence is patently obvious in a cultish way across the fruited plain....but the psychology of it is a subject for discussion on another thread.
Leni
As a life-long bookkeeper, I don’t understand why any business-of any size- would want to dismiss or disrespect the
Tea Party ideals.
Do they all need to be nationalized like Obama is trying to do to the health care industry before they get a clue???
No one in the Tea Party is anti biz...geeeeeez.
I hope these anti-TEA Party “businesses” go bankrupt.
Obama, Harry Reid and company brought us this so-called “shutdown.”
“No Negotiate” Obama brought the Country to the brink of default, not the Tea Party.
Truth is an outdated concept in this Country.
that’s the ticket GOPe. waste all your money destroying the Tea Party. the Rockefeller wing strikes back.
Interesting. Most Tea Partiers I know are very pro business. Especially local businesses.
i can’t help but wonder if this guy on the board is a big reason we have corker and alexander.
Roland Myers
President and CEO
Tennessee Retail Association
The corporatists can have their POS party.
Is there any doubt that Big Businesses is aligned with the Socialists? That incestuous relationship has a name.
Fascism.
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