Posted on 01/10/2014 10:36:48 AM PST by cotton1706
The Tea Party Leadership Fund will announce on Friday an effort it plans to undertake to search for a candidate to primary House Speaker John Boehner, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The group is funding a $25,000 ad campaign against Boehner and a petition drive at PrimaryBoehner.com with a goal of collecting 1 million signatures by Jan. 31. Radio’s Rusty Humphries, a spokesman for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, is leading the group’s effort to find a candidate.
“John Boehner has declared war on conservatives demanding lower taxes and limited government,” Humphries said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “Today we declare war on him. We intend to send a message to his fellow 'Republicans In Name Only' that such ideologically bankrupt leadership must come to an end.”
The group’s release states it has polling that shows at least half of Republicans in Boehner’s Ohio district are willing to support a GOP candidate who is more conservative than the Speaker.
If the effort hopes to be successful, the group will have to move fast. The filing deadline for a candidate to enter the race to run against Boehner in the Ohio GOP primary is 4 p.m. on Feb. 5. The primary is on May 6.
In the release provided to Breitbart News, Humphries provides a list of things that the Tea Party Leadership Fund is prepared to do in its search for a Boehner primary candidate. He said the group will be “interviewing and vetting potential candidates to assure that we endorse the most qualified, most conservative and most viable candidate that will truly make John Boehner ‘feel the heat.’”
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I’m trying to chase down a contact.
That list was excellent. I really appreciate that. I’m not a politician so that is the perfect guide.
Let us know how to help because time is of the essence.
It’s rather late in the hour to trip over simple protocol.
We need you meeting with DeMint. And Sarah.
Boehner’s challenger is here, Eric. Let’s support him.
He needs a new screenname at minimum.
I am loving it.
Yes, time is of the essence. Absentee voting is going to be here soon. I just need people to help me get the word out.
We have a lot of OH freepers here. Karlinohio, Chrissy Hynde (j/k), let’s get some Ohions in to help Mr. Gurr take Boehner down.
If you are not an Ohioan but know one please ping them to this.
Time to get yard signs printed up and saluting from yards.
Time is of the essence to take Boehner down. Thank you.
Let’s rattle some bells for Eric.
One bit of unsolicited advice. When FR’s GOP or Die wing catches up to you on the threads and starts their usual campaign to minimize your candidacy, PLEASE be very vocal in telling them to go straight to hell. Because they will not stop until they wreck your chance to attract other freepers to your cause.
They have dne it to Freeper candidates before (Eternal Vigilence) and they WILL do it to you. Likewise, when it happens fellow freepers, the rest of us should do the same OFTEN AND LOUDLY.
Apparently, the effort to "primary" Boehner is not considered newsworthy by any of the major media outlets at this point.
Don't bother.
I think we can afford to give up this House seat by voting directly for the Democrat, and still retain the House.
That's the easiest thing to do. Otherwise, we give Boehner the platform of a primary campaign for him to take advantage of.
Just vote for the other guy and be done with it.
-PJ
Well strictly speaking until a strong opponent is indeed recruited or a poll shows a competitive race with the candidates already in, it’s not major news.
He does have TWO opponents already, Eric Gurr and JD Winteregg. Neither appears to me to be a major entity and I guess this tea party group isn’t even aware of them.
In the article this group bemoans Boner’s unfavorable treatment of Paultard Rep. Justin Amash and RINO Walter Jones so I wouldn’t gather they’re worth much of a damn.
Choosing between Winteregg and Gurr seems to be the smarter thing to do than recruiting a third candidate to further divide the vote.
How can having to go through a primary campaign be any advantage for Boehner? If it's a credible challenge, he'll have to spend time and money on it, even if does eventually win. So in a best case scenario for him, the primary be a pain in the rump. And he may have to move to the right to win it, and that might impact the House agenda in a favorable direction in the meanwhile.
I think we can afford to give up this House seat by voting directly for the Democrat, and still retain the House.
That's plain silly. Do the real conservatives of the district want someone to represent them who embraces the Obamaton agenda enthusiastically? That would be significantly worse than Boehner.
In other words, convince one of them to get out or recruit another challenger and convince both of them to get out. You're right, only one challenger is the best way to go. Too many cooks will spoil the broth.
I think you meant to ask how not going through a primary is an advantage, since that was my point.
The answer is that he will be propped up by the MSM and made to look like a strong leader. A primary challenge against him will become an opportunity for the MSM to propagandize for him. I say, take away his soap-box.
Do the real conservatives of the district want someone to represent them who embraces the Obamaton agenda enthusiastically? That would be significantly worse than Boehner.
In Boehner's home district, only 246,000 people voted for him in 2012. In 2010, the vote was a split of 142,700 for him and 65,800 for the Democrat.
Given today's situation, we can't put 300 million people's interests at risk over the needs of 250,000 people in one district in Ohio.
Sorry. Boehner is too dangerously weak and incompetent as Speaker. The 250,000 who supported him in Ohio will have to suffer for two years until they can oust the Democrat who unseats Boehner.
-PJ
Are you planning to vote for all of these on your list?
Almost nothing that is “ newsworthy” appears on the major media outlets. Notice how “Fast and Furious” and “IRSgate” have disappeared. So has Susan “the lying little shit” Rice; Lerman the IRS Vermin; Govt Parks Closure while allowing a pro-immigration rally to take place on govt grounds, etc.
The internet is one of our top weapons in spreading the word (and information ) around to our side. FreeRepublic is one of the leaders.
Let’s keep the comments and article-forwarding an ongoing tactic.
Gingrich quit because he lost seats in the 98 election. That’s extremely unlikely to happen this year.
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