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Club for Growth warns against Trump endorsements
Politico ^ | 03/01/16 | Burgess Everett

Posted on 03/01/2016 8:36:24 AM PST by kevcol

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To: kevcol

Club for Extortion


61 posted on 03/01/2016 9:14:56 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: Harpotoo

Agreed.

But the elites in both parties, the MSM and big money donors are stuck on stupid because their money (not ideas) is what has allowed them to buy every election since 1985.

Not since Reagan has there been an anti-establishment candidate that supersedes the power of big money. Not only does Trump not need their money, he doesn’t need them or their support either which both pisses them off and terrifies them simultaneously.

Oh, the sounds of their mental masturbation, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth is truly music to my ears.

*sniffle* I’m so happy!


62 posted on 03/01/2016 9:15:03 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Psalm 144

CFG has already spent over $3 million attacking Trump ads.


63 posted on 03/01/2016 9:32:48 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (My first choice is Trump 4 economics and Not a Politician . Cruz to endorse Rubio Stay Home)
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To: AuntB

All these organizations start out having integrity. Over time ALL go corrupt.

Remember that parties and organizations go bad after twenty yrs or so. We need to be alert to evil all the time. Don’t get complacent.


64 posted on 03/01/2016 9:33:30 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: kevcol

I heard roger stone on the radio this morning..local talk station..He said he needed to word this very very carefully.
According to stone this is what transpired.

Cruz’s “people” approached Trump’s “people” the gest was Cruz would drop out and pledge to Trump if Trump appointed Cruz to the Supreme Court. This was taken to Trump..Trump ran this thru his attorneys and Trump was informed this was/is illegal. Trump turned Cruz down cold.

Then, according to stone, Cruz offered the same deal to Rubio. At that point Stones accounts stopped.

I have no idea if this has happened Im just reporting what stone said on the radio this morning.

Stone went on to describe how power brokers within the party, with the help of Romney, can play various games to take the nomination away from Trump.....possible having delegates CHANGE their minds after the first round.

Criminal prosecution?


65 posted on 03/01/2016 9:47:59 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: kevcol

Club For Growth? Isn’t that a Soros supported group just like the Human Rights Campaign (but only for homosexual humans)


66 posted on 03/01/2016 9:49:09 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: kevcol

The Cheap Labor Express has every intention of stopping us from electing anyone who would enforce the laws and borders.


67 posted on 03/01/2016 9:50:24 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kevcol

The maggots in the donor class still don’t understand what is happening to them. but Trump will explain it to them soon.


68 posted on 03/01/2016 9:52:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: kevcol

In the words of a famous commander when told to surrender..
NUTS!!!


69 posted on 03/01/2016 9:53:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: sanjuanbob

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.

The Club fought to support the Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2005, running print advertisements in local Beltway publications in the Washington, DC area. According to Roll Call, “Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), president of the Club for Growth, a CAFTA supporter

In 2007, the Club for Growth opposed protectionist policies against China. Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had proposed a bill to apply large tariffs on Chinese imports if that country did not increase the value of its currency. In response, the Club sponsored a petition of 1,028 economists who stated their opposition to protectionist policies against China. The list of economists included Nobel Laureates Finn Kydland, Edward Prescott, Thomas Schelling, and Vernon Smith. The petition played off a similar petition that was also signed by 1,028 economists in 1930 that opposed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

Club for Growth “grew out of the Political Club for Growth,” a group that had been founded by stockbroker Richard Gilder. Gilder founded Gilder Gagnon Howe & Company, a private investment fund, in the 1960s.

Stephen Moore had been involved in the Political Club for Growth from its beginning, but by the 1990s wanted to take on a leadership role in order to turn the group into a more powerful influence in Washington. At the time, Moore was a fellow at the Cato Institute.[36] Club for Growth was “founded in 1999 by Moore (now a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board); National Review president Dusty Rhodes; Cato Institute president Ed Crane; stockbroker Richard Gilder; and Larry Kudlow, a former Reagan adviser and co-host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer,” and other like-minded people. (Former president Pat Toomey is now the junior senator representing Pennsylvania.

Board of Directors
Thomas L. Rhodes - Chair
Richard Gilder - Chairman emeritus
Ken Blackwell
Frayda Levin
Howard Rich
Jackson T. Stephens, Jr.
Chris Chocola

The group was formerly led by Pat Toomey.

Staff
Chris Chocola, President and CEO
Chuck Pike, Vice President
David Keating, Executive Director
Adam Rozansky, Chief Financial Officer (former Director of Operations)
Andrew Roth, Vice President, Director of Government Affairs
Erika Sather, Vice President, Development
Mike Connolly, Communications Director
Stacy French, Office Administrator
Maria Gullo, Senior Development Associate
Alyssa Bonk, Development Assistant

Former Staff
Patrick Toomey, President
Nachama Soloveichik, Communications Director
Stacie Smith, Development Assistant
Oliver Schwab, Membership Assistant

Leadership Council
Jean Belanger
Bruce Bent
Brent Bozell
Martin Boles
John Childs
Chris Chocola
Terry Considine
Dan Cook
Oliver R. Grace
Lawrence Kudlow
Virginia James
George Mitchell
Rex Sinquefield
Lee Tenzer
Louis Woodhill

Contact Information

Club for Growth
2001 L Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 202-955-5500
Fax: 202-955-9466
Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org


70 posted on 03/01/2016 10:26:23 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Thank you for the information on the GOPe.
SJB


71 posted on 03/01/2016 10:47:15 AM PST by sanjuanbob (Skeptic)
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To: kevcol

Holy crap, I hate these people more every day


72 posted on 03/01/2016 10:50:35 AM PST by JustaCowgirl
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To: Balding_Eagle

Agree, thanks for the response. Hopefully, we can all keep this thing civil here, even with the Cruz and Rubio supporters.


73 posted on 03/01/2016 11:01:46 AM PST by CTrent1564
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To: CTrent1564
I called mine today and told him because of Senator Sasser that I would be looking for a conservative third party candidate along with 97% of Trump supporters
74 posted on 03/01/2016 11:09:15 AM PST by scooby321
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To: ncpatriot

“Don’t get complacent.”

That is exactly what’s wrong with this country. And when you are not complacent, you’re told you’re a troublemaker.

As long as I draw breath I will be one.


75 posted on 03/01/2016 11:12:15 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: kevcol

This should make Cruzbio supporters all warm and fuzzy. Now they’re playing for the same team as GOPe like Club for Mexico’s Growth. Birds of a feather...


76 posted on 03/01/2016 11:39:18 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Gaffer
Some guy named Chocolo is in charge of it. Seems to me to be a little Eichman

In the spirit of Alinsky, I, in my capacity of a member of that august body known as "WE the People", the true power of this nation, hereby dub this individual "Count Chocolo" ;P...

the infowarrior

77 posted on 03/01/2016 12:03:54 PM PST by infowarrior
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To: kcvl

Chicola left.
It’s now David McIntosh

both are former Indiana congress persons

Chicola took out Dem Jill Long (a good thing) but later lost to Obamaphile Joe Donnelly who then took Lugar’s Senate seat.


78 posted on 03/01/2016 12:08:37 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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