‘Main Street’ GOP Groups and Their Leftist Funders (Michelle Malkin)

National Review Online ^ | January 10, 2014 | Michelle Malkin

[neverdem]

Unions are funding Republican groups to help push through amnesty for illegal immigrants.

What do George Soros, labor unions, and money-grubbing former GOP representative Steven LaTourette all have in common? They’re control freaks. They’re power hounds. They’re united against tea-party conservatives. And they have all operated under the umbrella of D.C. groups masquerading as “Main Street” Republicans.

LaTourette heads up the so-called Main Street Partnership, which claims to represent “thoughtful,” “pragmatic,” “commonsense,” and “centrist” Republican leadership. Reality check: The pro-bailout, pro-debt, pro-amnesty, anti-drilling group founded by former liberal GOP representative Amory Houghton of New York includes three liberal Senate Republicans (John McCain, Mark Kirk, and Susan Collins) and 52 center-left House Republicans. LaTourette himself is a self-serving Beltway barnacle who held office for nearly two decades. Now he’s using his new tea-party-bashing platform to benefit a family-operated lobbying business.

The New York Times shed light on LaTourette’s tangled web of Republican-establishment outfits last week. But that story just scratched the surface. As the paper reported, the Main Street Partnership is a nonprofit group that charges members up to $25,000 per year to rub elbows with Washington’s rich and powerful. The Main Street Advocacy Fund and the Defending Main Street super PAC are political satellites planning to amass $8 million to bolster Republican liberals and moderates facing tea-party challengers in 2014. McDonald Hopkins Government Strategies is LaTourette’s lobbying firm.

The Times notes that “corporations and lobbyists” fund the Main Street Partnership. But far-left donors provided seed money for these affiliated K Street fronts. Who’s behind the Defending Main Street super PAC? Big Labor. National Journal’s Scott Bland reported on the labor connection last month: “Two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers’ International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group in September and October. Main Street says it has raised roughly $2 million total between its super PAC and an affiliated nonprofit group so far — and that means labor has supplied at least 20 percent of those funds.”

Along with the anti-tea-party U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the “Main Street” fat cats and union leaders have banded together to help President Obama push through amnesty for illegal aliens. The payoff: cheap labor for big business, cheap votes for the Democratic party.

Main Street Partnership’s chief operating and financial officer is Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. She also serves on the partnership’s board of directors and previously served as an officer of the soft-money-raising Main Street Individual Fund. The MSIF is yet another spinoff group that received $50,000 from progressive billionaire George Soros in 2002, soon after it was created. Soros also dangled a “seven-figure contribution” in front of the Main Street Partnership, but Resnick said the group declined that one. The MSIF accepted a separate $50,000 Soros donation during the 2004 election cycle. It was mysteriously returned in November 2005 after I called attention to it.

These various groups are legally independent entities on paper, but they have shared staff and legal resources. When I reported on the “Main Street” farce eight years ago, the partnership’s counsel sent me a threatening letter baselessly claiming I had made “libelous” statements about its network. My sin? Exposing the radical environmental funders of “Main Street” Republicans who had sabotaged House conservative efforts to open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The “Main Street” Republicans back then gloated over their successful campaign to force squishy GOP leaders in D.C. to cave in to the Left. There’s nothing principled about their agenda. It’s not about “common sense.” It’s about the Benjamins. These statists in populist clothing are running a Washington incumbency-protection racket. Same as it ever was.

— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Regnery, 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com. © 2014 Creators.com

[neverdem]

[M-cubed]

Along with the anti-tea-party U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the “Main Street” fat cats and union leaders have banded together to help President Obama push through amnesty for illegal aliens. The payoff: cheap labor for big business, cheap votes for the Democratic party. <<

and in the next breath these same dolts say we need to extend unemployment ‘cause there is no work for the citizens of this country!.....The hypocrisy is glaring!!

[NormsRevenge]

FR keyword

Rmsp

Just added it. :-)

The FRiendly RINO side of the GooP ugh GOP-e uhhh eGOP

Thanks Michelle!!

[jimbo123]

Member list here!

http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/members/

RMSP Members

SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS

SENATOR MARK KIRK

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN

CONGRESSWOMAN SUSAN BROOKS

CONGRESSMAN LARRY BUCSHON

CONGRESSMAN KEN CALVERT

CONGRESSMAN DAVE CAMP

CONGRESSWOMAN SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO

CONGRESSMAN CHRIS COLLINS

CONGRESSMAN PAUL COOK

CONGRESSMAN RODNEY DAVIS

CONGRESSMAN JEFF DENHAM

CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE DENT

CONGRESSMAN MARIO DIAZ-BALART

CONGRESSMAN SEAN DUFFY

CONGRESSMAN MIKE FITZPATRICK

CONGRESSMAN JEFF FORTENBERRY

CONGRESSMAN RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

CONGRESSMAN JIM GERLACH

CONGRESSMAN CHRIS GIBSON

CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL GRIMM

CONGRESSMAN RICHARD HANNA

CONGRESSWOMAN JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER

CONGRESSWOMAN LYNN JENKINS

CONGRESSMAN BILL JOHNSON

CONGRESSMAN DAVID JOYCE

CONGRESSMAN MIKE KELLY

CONGRESSMAN PETER KING

CONGRESSMAN ADAM KINZINGER

CONGRESSMAN LEONARD LANCE

CONGRESSMAN TOM LATHAM

CONGRESSMAN FRANK LOBIONDO

CONGRESSMAN DAVID MCKINLEY

CONGRESSWOMAN CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS

CONGRESSMAN PAT MEEHAN

CONGRESSMAN TIMOTHY MURPHY

CONGRESSMAN ERIK PAULSEN

CONGRESSMAN THOMAS PETRI

CONGRESSMAN TOM W. REED

CONGRESSMAN DAVID REICHERT

CONGRESSMAN JIM RENACCI

CONGRESSMAN SCOTT RIGELL

CONGRESSMAN JON RUNYAN

CONGRESSMAN AARON SCHOCK

CONGRESSMAN MIKE SIMPSON

CONGRESSMAN STEVE STIVERS

CONGRESSMAN LEE TERRY

CONGRESSMAN PAT TIBERI

CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL TURNER

CONGRESSMAN FRED UPTON

CONGRESSMAN DAVID VALADAO

CONGRESSMAN GREG WALDEN

CONGRESSMAN ED WHITFIELD

CONGRESSMAN FRANK WOLF

CONGRESSMAN TODD YOUNG

[Servant of the Cross]

DemocRAT collaborator Steve LaTourette .... and his GOP-e collaborators ....

[Slings and Arrows]

I can’t believe that Linseed Graham isn’t a member.

[lodi90]

As vile as this is, it is simply the Dems executing their game plan. Something the stupid party is too lazy and careerist infiltrated to do themselves.

[stevie_d_64]

I noticed that Pete Olsen (TX) and John Cornyn (TX) are not a part of this organization...But they are probably being handled by another faction of GOPe donors and supporters...

And attackers to boot...

[GOPJ]

Main Street Partnership’s chief operating and financial officer is Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. She also serves on the partnership’s board of directors and previously served as an officer of the soft-money-raising Main Street Individual Fund. The MSIF is yet another spinoff group that received $50,000 from progressive billionaire George Soros in 2002, soon after it was created.

The MSM will ignore this because they don't want to tip off everyday conservatives that elite Republican congresscritters aren't much different then the dem whores... they've being bought and paid for by George Soros.

Ever wonder why congress is FOR illegals becoming citizens while Americans are against it?

That's democrat citizens and conservative citizens - none of us want illegals here.

Yet, big money like Soros sits there and pays not crap to get his way...( Taxpayers pay for the buildings, the staff, salaries etc...) We pay the bulk of all expenses for congress - but the whore-mongers come in and provide money to run campaigns... It's time to change the laws. The only jobs congress protects are their own.

[autumnraine]

What benefit would it be for unions to flood the labor force with cheap labor?

[GeronL]

half the Repubs in Congress are chomping at the bit for amnesty

[xzins]

Malkin nails this one. She is reliably on the conservative side always throughout her history, so far as I remember. She gets gushy at times on TV, but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s right on the issues.

[Old Yeller]

What benefit would it be for unions to flood the labor force with cheap labor?

Union dues for the leadership to spend on themselves.

[trisham]

Thank God for Malkin.

[Carry_Okie]

They should call it “The K Street Partnership.”

[Ann Archy]

MORE UNION DUES!!!!!! They don’t care about the wages, they just want the UNION DUES!

[afraidfortherepublic]

Petri and Duffy ping!

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[rellimpank]

—had a person from the RNC last night to whom I delivered a rant against this—hope she passes it on along with my explanation of why they get nothing from me anymore—

[Theodore R.]

No matter what, we can be sure that the Republican primary voters will remain clueless.

[Theodore R.]

The person you talked to is likely a low-paid employee who is probably a Democrat to boot, and probably donesn’t even know the names of the Republican officeholders for whom he (she) is soliciting funds.