Posted on 09/15/2015 8:29:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The fiscal conservative advocacy group Club for Growth said on Tuesday it was funding $1 million in advertisements attacking Republican Donald Trump in the early-nominating state of Iowa, the first concentrated campaign to dislodge the front runner in the race for the GOP nomination.
The ads will launch on Thursday, a day after the second official GOP debate in which Mr. Trump will again take the center podium. They publicize statements Mr. Trump has made in recent years in which he takes positions on health care, taxes, and other issues that the group says align him with Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton. One ad ends with a picture of Mr. Trump and his wife posing with the Clintons. The ads also seek to undermine Mr. Trump’s efforts to cast himself as an outsider to Washington, calling him “just another politician.”....
When Mr. Trump first announced his campaign in June, Mr. McIntosh said the group did not plan to subject his candidate to the level of scrutiny it had other major GOP hopefuls, calling him not a serious Republican candidate.” But as Mr. Trump maintains his lead in the polls, some Republicans have ramped up their efforts to blunt his rise.
Among the top donors in the first half of the year to Club for Growth Action—the group’s super PAC, which will pay for the ads—are some who have given millions to Mr. Trump’s rivals. Richard Uihlein, the CEO of a Wisconsin-based shipping company, gave a $2.5 million, together with his wife, to the super PAC backing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. He gave the largest contribution to Club for Growth—$500,000. The group’s second-largest donor, hedge-fund magnate Robert Mercer, gave $11 million to the super PAC backing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and another $500,000 to the group supporting former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina.
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“Among the top donors in the first half of the year to Club for Growth Action—the group’s super PAC, which will pay for the ads—are some who have given millions to Mr. Trump’s rivals. Richard Uihlein, the CEO of a Wisconsin-based shipping company, gave a $2.5 million, together with his wife, to the super PAC backing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. He gave the largest contribution to Club for Growth—$500,000.”
You are an ill-informed person. Not to mention a troll. Trump already published a picture of the letter where the Club for Growth asked for the Million. You may hate the Donald, that’s your privilege.. but get your facts straight before making you knee-jerk posts.
When they deny they have any influence over what they do, he should challenge them to return their money lest the appear for sale.
If they still balk, call them liars...on the debate stage.
All of 170 views on YouTube for one of the ads. All for 1 million bucks. Nice.
So, will he disown them, or just smile?
Little respected Club For Growth asked me for $1,000,000 - I said "NO". Now they are spending lobbyist and special interest money on ads!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2015
Just give it up, already! Stop with the lies.
You're not entitled to your own set of "facts". You make yourself and Walker look more foolish, by the day.
I THOUGHT THIS IS WHAT THE PLEDGE WAS SUPPOSED TO TAME?
Even have ‘heard’ some GOPe wags would support a 3rd party before DT?????
So ‘we’ force him to sign the ‘pledge’ and use what he can’t do against him.
That is strange isn’t it kind of like ‘The Komen foundation giving the breast cancer research money to PP?’
May not have been much but I wonder if they are ‘lacking’ in recent drives because of that donation?
When you have people that won’t step foot in Starbucks or buy Ben & Jerrys products or buy anything with the Heinz name on it (I am ‘guilty’ of those three -for starters-..YES, I still refuse to partake in ANY movie/whatever that has Hanoi Jane Fonda in it) so it is safe to say that as long as I am alive there is at least ONE person that will keep any of these radicals from attaining 100% popularity numbers.
You must remember that a governor is an executive, a governor actually does things. Trump can say all that he wants but he doesn’t have the experience and success in areas that we need our next president to have (and one who has shown that he CAN get the job done).
The Club for Growth just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and don’t know what to do, so their are going to TRY to get back at Trump, but what they don’t understand...
The GOPee, media, super pacs, RINOs, washington cartel, taking heads and others are NOT running this election on this side of the aisle, WE ARE!! The Legal Voters of America, The Trump Supporters...
If they want to run something, go over to shillary, Sanders, and that wacky group they have over there...actually WHERE they should BE!!!
As Trump said last night, a LOT of really rich people are comfortable with a system that pays off politicians for later. profitable favors.
The EX/IM bank is a PERFECT example of it.
GE just announced they will be moving factories OUT of the US, because the US taxpayer won’t be paying for their foreign sales anymore, but the FRENCH are willing to!
And Trump said he was funding his OWN campaign, he doesn’t want to be owned by any one other than the American People...
Trump is a liar.
More than once he’s lied about Walker and Wisconsin despite it being proven a lie.
$1 million? That’s it?
Attacks in small doses will only serve to inoculate Trump from this BS in the future.
When the attack fails, Trump will rise even higher.
Trump is lucky that his opponents are all stupid.
“Donald Trump, who likes gun control, planned parenthood, property seizure and higher taxes.”
I think Trump has been a default liberal; now that he is thinking about these things, and is around people who are actually intelligent rather than “liberal intelligent,” I look for a lot of reversals from him.
You will look in vain.
You must remember that a governor is an executive, a governor actually does things. Trump can say all that he wants but he doesn’t have the experience and success in areas that we need our next president to have (and one who has shown that he CAN get the job done).
Scott Walker is a career politician.
He’s been a governor....yay....so what? So has Rick Perry and ¡Jeb! Bush....none of which could execute their way out of paper bags.
Scott Walker has NEVER signed the FRONT of the payroll checks.
America wants an executive with REAL, hands on, job creating, wealth producing experience. The guy who’s taken the risks that have allowed him to actually sign the FRONT of MANY payroll checks. Real Executive decisions....the type that effect families, livelihoods - not just for a term in office - but for, in some cases, generations.
Get over it. Walker is way over his head.
Is he still considering building a wall in the border with Canada?
Walker could make a good labour secretary in the Trump administration. But first he would have to renounce all his pro-Mexico positions.
True story....
In the late 1980’s, during a bad slump in the real estate market, Donald Trump and his daughter were walking down a street in Manhattan.
Trump pointed to a homeless guy sitting on the sidewalk with his back up against a building, and told his daughter, “That man has a higher net worth than I do.”
“But dad,” his daughter said, “That man has NOTHING!”
Her father replied, “His net worth is zero, while mine is in negative territory.”
Mr. Trump turned things around in a major way in the coming years.
Trump surely saw this coming. He published the letter and he attacked hedge fund guys who are the ones funding this attack.
I believe Trump has been planning his counter moves on this and I’m led to assume the Club for Growth will end up like Linda Graham.
The Club for Growth was founded in 1999 by Stephen Moore, Thomas L. Rhodes, and Richard Gilder. Moore served as the first president of the Club from 1999 until December 2004, when board members voted to remove Moore as president. Pennsylvania United States Senator Pat Toomey served as president from 2005 through 2009. The Club’s current president is former Indiana Congressman David McIntosh.
In 2005 Pat Toomey became president and the Club for Growth
The Club’s PAC spent $3.1 million ($2.4 million on independent expenditures and $700,000 on ads) or nearly half of the $7.8 million which it spent in 2014 on Chris McDaniel’s effort to defeat Thad Cochran in the United States Senate Republican primary election in Mississippi, 2014.
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