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REPORT: GOP CONSULTANT CLASS CONTINUES TO GET FABULOUSLY RICH
Breitbart ^ | Monday March 17, 2014

Posted on 03/17/2014 7:36:53 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

A new report from Politico’s Ken Vogel details how ten major GOP consultant firms who made a combined $1 billion off Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 White House bid are still large and in charge of GOP politics, raking in millions more for the 2014 cycle.

According to Vogel’s analysis, the firms and the consultants who work for them have already made—through January 2014, nearly a full year before the midterm elections—more than $19.6 million.

“They’ve also cemented relationships with some of the GOP’s rising stars, setting up the firms for even bigger paydays headed into the fall, when costly advertising and mail campaigns begin, and for a 2016 presidential campaign expected to be the most expensive in history,” Vogel wrote on Monday.

The firms Vogel focuses heavily on include: Mentzer Media Service, Crossroads Media, American Rambler Productions, Targeted Victory, and FLS Connect.

Each of these firms handled major projects for the Romney 2012 campaign or for GOP groups aligned with Romney’s outfit.

Mentzer Media Service, an ad-buying firm based in Baltimore, was paid $280 million in the 2012 cycle from groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads.

while Vogel notes that hardly anyone “in the consulting world on either side of the aisle dispute that a certain amount of cronyism — or, at least, inertia — plays some role in determining who gets which contracts,” the GOP consultants he quotes in the article attribute their continued high-dollar workload to being effective political workers—even though they lost the 2012 election.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; cronyism; establishment; gope; karlrove; palinwasright; rulingclass; uniparty
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These corrupt GOP Establishment cronies like Rove don't care about winning or pushing conservativism, they only care about lining their pockets and keeping the status quo in D.C. perpetually going. Its a money making scheme
1 posted on 03/17/2014 7:36:53 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Another way RINOs and Democrats are alike


2 posted on 03/17/2014 7:39:50 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Political consultants have no soul.


3 posted on 03/17/2014 7:41:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bigtigermike

You’d think they’d be trying to get them to win elections. But no, they’re telling Republicans to be just like Democrats, and liberals will actually vote for them. That’s never going to happen but apparently it is just so plainfully obvious that they don’t realize it. Liberals will always hate Republicans, so hey—just try doing what your own voter base wants for a shocking change. Maybe you’ll get some of their votes instead.


4 posted on 03/17/2014 7:45:44 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Bigtigermike; cripplecreek; xzins; GeronL; Norm Lenhart; RKBA Democrat; Finny; ...
Uniparty Ping.

Do You want to know why D.C. never Changes?

Exhibit: A!

5 posted on 03/17/2014 7:46:41 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Bigtigermike
GOP consultants are major players in the destruction of the nation, complicit in electing Democrats.
Overpriced failures protecting their financial turf to the detriment of We The People, America.
Scum.
6 posted on 03/17/2014 7:50:42 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: KC_Lion

But but but...we gotta keep voting for them and no matter what and stuff. CuZ you know...the dems are worse...

You want us to stop doing that? Why...that’s just crazy talk!


7 posted on 03/17/2014 7:55:47 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

LOL!!!! that’s funny but at the same time sad


8 posted on 03/17/2014 7:58:52 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Campaign managers get paid whether they win or lose.

Pray America wakes up


9 posted on 03/17/2014 8:01:33 PM PDT by bray (The Republic of Texas 2022 coming soon)
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To: Bigtigermike

Well they are the very words of some of your fellow ‘conservatives’ RE RINOs spoken right here on FR so I’d go with ‘sad’...pathetic might be a better descriptor though.


10 posted on 03/17/2014 8:04:30 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: KC_Lion

Yep. What a gig, where you even win when you lose.


11 posted on 03/17/2014 8:04:57 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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Maybe if we sat them down in a quiet room. Played them a movie about their life. Their childhood friends, their first kiss...and told them how much their sacrifices mean...


12 posted on 03/17/2014 8:07:19 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Targeted Victory is a digital firm that made $112 million in 2012 and has made $3 million through January for the 2014 cycle already....the firm has experienced explosive growth since the Romney campaign, more than doubling its staff to 85 employees and signing over 100 new clients in 2014 — more than the total number it had prior to the cycle,” Vogel wrote.

Who the heck are these 100 new clients -- just in 2014?? And, where is the $$/funding coming from? Corporations?

Most individuals donate directly to the candidates, now. I don't know of anyone who donates to Tokyo. Maybe his *friends* are "funding" him...wink, wink.

13 posted on 03/17/2014 8:07:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Pharaoh’s magicians.


14 posted on 03/17/2014 8:08:57 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: Norm Lenhart; TADSLOS

15 posted on 03/17/2014 8:10:11 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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There is no problem in DC that cannot be solved by a ‘liberal’ application of Vault Tec security robots. Not one. I guaren-damn-tee it ;)


16 posted on 03/17/2014 8:18:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Bigtigermike
I listened to the Larry Kudlow show over the weekend. As usual, it was full of self-important eggheads, spewing forth big words and inside the Beltway jokes that only those inside the Beltway would understand, sounding very smug and sanctimonious, talking only to their own pundit class. What good are they?

Do any of them know how to engage targets with a battle rifle? Splint and dress a compound fracture? Plan an L-shaped ambush? Hell's bells...does any of their blather even get one person (other than themselves) to the polls on Election Day? Probably not...but they sure love to make themselves sound important, and sniff each others' farts. IOW, they're verbally fiddling while Rome burns. They're useless to all but themselves.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

17 posted on 03/17/2014 8:28:50 PM PDT by wku man (We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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To: Bigtigermike

Conservatives don’t demonize getting fabulously rich.


18 posted on 03/17/2014 8:32:13 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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When its basically a ‘Racket’ and good old boy scheming then yes it be demonized


19 posted on 03/17/2014 8:37:19 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

And their primary sources of money are secret soros funds. soros pays them handsomely to sabotage the gop at the federal level.


20 posted on 03/17/2014 8:45:56 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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