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Report: Top GOP donors upset with legislative failures
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| 10/05/17 08:57 AM EDT
| BY OLIVIA BEAVERS -
Posted on 10/05/2017 6:25:36 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Top GOP donors are reportedly angry over the Republican Party's legislative failures, telling lawmakers their wallets are closed until something passes through the chambers....
As the GOP agenda stalls, party contributors are slowing down their cash donations until the lawmakers start showing they can get results and keep their key promises to undo Obama-era measures.
With the 2018 midterms just around the corner, GOP lawmakers are trying to reassure the donors that they can deliver.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mcconnell; mitch; republicans; rinos; ryan; thomas; uniparty; wachtel
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Even the donor class is fed up with McConnell and Ryan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ryan and the House are hiding behind McCain, Collins, Murkowski, etc. in the senate. They pat themselves on the back for passing something, but they aren’t surprised by negative votes in the senate. They know how it’s going to go.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:29:15 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:29:40 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I don’t give anything to the GOP. I support individual candidates.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:29:55 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Are you tired of winning yet?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Then they should have no problem communicating that to them personally and inform the gutless, lying POS that they will be funding their replacements in their next primary...
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Top GOP donors are reportedly angry over the Republican Party's legislative failures, telling lawmakers their wallets are closed until something passes through the chambers....
Maybe that will be the laxative to finally get the Congressional GOP moving. They obviously don't care about betraying their voters, but if it's going to hit their campaign funds then they might start taking their own words and promises seriously.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Wait, being in Congress is about legislation, not fundraising?
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:33:54 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Then the pissants have the temerity to issue a press release to claim that Bannon and Gorka are insignificant. But K Street will make every attempt to keep deluding the establishment.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:34:51 AM PDT
by
mazda77
To: Common Sense 101
According to the full article, the donors are communicating it personally:
Thomas Wachtell, a longtime party donor, confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about getting a legislative win during a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day...two dozen attendees who witnessed the testy exchange....Wachtell told the news outlet that McConnell reacted defensively..."The GOP leaders should know, no movement on remaining agenda: tax reform, infrastructure, deregulation, etc. means no funding from supporters like me,” one angry donor said to a longtime Republican fundraiser in an email forwarded to Politico. “No meetings, calls, contributions until we see progress.”
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:36:56 AM PDT
by
Behind Liberal Lines
(Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Top GOP donors America is upset with the legislative failures legislature!
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:37:11 AM PDT
by
Strac6
("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The problem is not McConnell and Ryan; it is the members: McCain, Collins, Paul, etc.
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10/05/2017 6:39:32 AM PDT
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
It’s good they are talking tough..especially with the 2018 mid-terms around the corner.
It’s about time for RINOs to start talking like they are ultra-consetvatives,too.
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10/05/2017 6:42:41 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Less talk more ACTiON!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
And then there is this little issue about confirming appointees, none of which has happened recently. How about an Obminubs confirmation - list all the nominations on a sheet of paper, tell Schumer that if he fillibusters you will go nuclear, and then pass them all.
Go slow. Take the morning off. Do it this afternoon. A kindergarten mock UN could do it, how about the professionals?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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10/05/2017 6:43:39 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Slyfox
Same here. I’ve never given a dime to the party.
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10/05/2017 6:44:40 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
“With the 2018 midterms just around the corner, GOP lawmakers are trying to reassure the donors that they can deliver.”
The problem is that they’re out of “But we can’t do that, the Dems are blocking us” excuses. The only thing blocking the GOP... is the GOP.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:44:53 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: af_vet_1981
McConnell and Ryan are at fault because they let McCain, Collins, et al misbehave without severe consequences for their actions. Mostly because McTurtle and Lyin actually endorse their actions.
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10/05/2017 6:46:40 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The “donor” class is probably mad about the failure to
give citizenship to illegals and the failure to get more H-1B visas.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:46:43 AM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: PTBAA
Most of the stuff they tried to pass would still fall into the Legislative Failure bin if it had passed.
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posted on
10/05/2017 6:50:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Outstanding. It just goes to show how arrogant and ignorant that turtle-faced POS actually is... thanks for posting, I had to post and run before reading the article.
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