Posted on 04/29/2017 8:16:56 AM PDT by onyx
Politico is reporting that several sources on the board of the Heritage Foundation are saying there is an organized effort to dump the organization's president, Jim DeMint. DeMint, who has a close relationship with the Trump White House, is accused of being "too political" and corrupting the foundation's historic mission of research and policy formulation.
There's also a sense that he's made the institution too much about himself. "He has been a congressman and senator. They are solo performers. When you are in the Senate, life is all about the senators," said one board member, who asked for anonymity to speak candidly about DeMint's situation. "CEO skills are different than senator skills. I think it boils down to attributes. I don't think it's particularly personal."
DeMint has been in contract negotiations, which are expected to be cut short, the sources said. An announcement about his future at Heritage is expected to come within a few days. His contract is up at the end of 2017, according to one board member.
A handful of Heritage staffers close to DeMint, who came over from the Senate with him, are also expected to leave the think tank in what two sources called a "purge."
A GOP operative who works closely with Heritage said DeMint's removal as president was imminent and that more changes are expected to follow. "There's massive turmoil over there right now," the operative said.
Sources described what amounted to a feud between the leadership of the think tank, on one hand, and its political-action arm, on the other.
Heritage Action, despite its reputation as the uncompromising ideological enforcer, had in recent months been working to soften its sharp edges – and even to reach out to Democrats.
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Why didnt he just stay a Senator?
When #nevertrumpers attack.
The “Establishment”, the “Dark Side” strikes again.
In other words the liberals are trying to take over Heritage
Indeed.
Hmmmm...more time with family is always a red flag to me when said by people in DC
Guarantee you, if any democRATS come into the organization, they will NOT soften THEIR approach. They will take it over and make a sharp left turn. ‘RATS are like ragheads; they will NOT assimilate, they will take over and own (ruin) it.
Sounds like the GOPe is doing a hostile takeover.
Heritage created Romneycare which devolved into obamacare. So they have had a leftist problem for a long time.
We would be better served with DeMint in the senate.
JEALOUS, POWER HUNGRY pundits are the worst kind. Apparently the GOPe didn’t like the new REAL CONSERVIATIVE kid on the block.
It always amazes me when people are surprised when the ‘infiltration’ occurs. What better way to gum up the works than to have ‘wolves in sheeps clothing’ in important places? It would be imperative.
We would be better served with DeMint in the senate.
I’m not really sure why I should care.
Conservatives don’t seem to actually do anything no matter where they may be or not be.
They just kind of sit there until eventually they get ousted and are not consequential.
Ideological purity knows no limits. Donald Trump represents a “dilution” of all the good morally upstanding values, doncha know, because Trump is neither conservative nor libertarian, and is only a Republican as a convenience, as it is almost impossible for even a billionaire to be elected to the Presidency (witness the short trajectory of H.Ross Perot), and the Democrats had already foreclosed any movement that would allow Trump in under THEIR version of the “big tent”.
I don’t think it would make any difference at all.
All they ever do at best is say sweet sounding things on various AM radio stations, and outside of that, nothing.
Maybe he can go head to head with Graham to regain his Senate set.
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