Posted on 07/07/2013 10:36:02 PM PDT by Steelfish
Conservative Group To Launch Ad Supporting Senate Immigration Bill
Immigrant students hold a vigil outside the West Los Angeles Federal Building last month calling on Congress to pass the immigration overhaul. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press / June 27, 2013)
By Lisa Mascaro July 7, 2013 WASHINGTON -- As an overhaul of immigration laws shifts to the House, a right-leaning group is launching a new television ad campaign Monday that will call on House lawmakers -- and, implicitly, resistant Republicans -- to support the Senate-passed “border surge” as part of “conservative immigration reform."
The ad seeks to influence rank-and-file lawmakers as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) convenes Republicans behind closed doors to assess how the GOP majority will respond to the bipartisan Senate bill.
Many House Republicans oppose the legislation because it includes a 13-year citizenship path for immigrants here without legal status. But influential party leaders think other rank-and-file lawmakers may be interested in a compromise that could help the party’s outreach to the growing Latino electorate.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Link to the ad seems borked.
Board Members of the American Action Network
Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman, American Action Network and Of Counsel, Hogan Lovells US LLP
Fred Malek, Founder, American Action Network and Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group
Isaac Applbaum, founding General Partner, Opus Capital
Dylan Glenn, Managing Director, Guggenheim Advisors
Congressman Jim Nussle, President and CEO, The Nussle Group
Congressman Tom Reynolds, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Nixon Peabody
Ambassador Gregory Slayton, Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Congressman Vin Weber, Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock
American Action Network is tied with Karl Rove. Together with the Hispanic Leadership Network they are selling the Senate Bill 744 to the House.
http://hispanicleadershipnetwork.org/?p=4235
Brian O Walsh, President, American Action Network
Brian O. Walsh was Political Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in 2009-2010 serving as a senior strategist for House Republicans in their effort to win back the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this capacity, Mr. Walsh managed the staff and operations of the NRCC Political Department and provided strategic political assistance to Republican congressional candidates nationwide.
Mr. Walsh previously served as NRCC Deputy Political Director (2007-2008), the Political Director for the Tom Kean, Jr. for U.S. Senate campaign in New Jersey (2006), as Deputy Director of Incumbent Retention for the NRCC (2005), Campaign Manager to former NRCC Chairman and U.S. Representative Thomas M. Reynolds (R-NY) (2004), and as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) (2003-2004). Mr. Walsh also served as Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant to former Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-NY), former Chairman of the House International Relations Committee (1999-2002). He is originally from Ringwood, New Jersey.
Pray for America...
...Like you would pray for the soul of a beloved relative who is on his death bed.
It just keeps getting better and better.
Hispanic Leadership Network co-chair Carlos Gutierrez created the SuperPAC Republicans for Immigration Reform
Have these minnow-minded morons even read ANY part of the bill?
With this bill, I could take that $50+/hour job on the UP of MI without ANY repercussions. I could likely even avoid both Cdn and IRS taxation...
Wow, what a temptation. Pity I have an ethical aversion to breaking the law....
RNC = RINO
I have absolutely no doubt that this "conservative group" is just another front group for the GOPe - - organized, funded, and directed BY the GOPe.
Top Individuals Funding Outside Spending Groups
1 Adelson, Sheldon G. & Miriam O.
Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas Sands/Adelson Drug Clinic $92,796,625 C
2 Simmons, Harold C. & Annette
Dallas, TX Contran Corp $26,865,000 C
3 Perry, Robert J.
Houston, TX Perry Homes $23,450,000 C
4 Eychaner, Fred
Chicago, IL Newsweb Corp $14,050,000 L
5 Bloomberg, Michael R.
New York, NY City of New York, NY $13,672,973 L
6 Ricketts, John Joe
Omaha, NE Hugo Enterprises $13,050,000 C
7 Simons, James H. & Marilyn
New York, NY Renaissance Technologies/Simons Fdtn $9,575,000 L
8 Mercer, Robert L.
East Setauket, NY Renaissance Technologies $5,409,354 C
9 Thiel, Peter A.
San Francisco, CA Clarium Capital Management $4,735,000 C
10 Mostyn, J. Steve & Anderson, Amber
Houston, TX Mostyn Law Firm $4,253,850 L
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?disp=D
American Action Network backs Rubio on immigration with cable ad
The center-right American Action Network super PAC is running an ad on Fox News in Florida backing Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for drafting and voting for comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate.
Rubio has faced heat from the right for supporting the bill, which would legalize nearly 11 million immigrants in the country while vastly increasing enforcement resources at the southern border. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that his “strongly favorable” ratings among Republicans had dropped 11 points compared with last August, while his popularity among Democrats has increased slightly.
The ad emphasizes the border security provisions of the bill. “Radar. Night vision. Even drones,” the narrator intones in the background.
While the legislation passed the Senate with votes from 14 Republicans, including Rubio, it’s still unclear if the Republican-led House will take up the reform baton.
In January 2011, the American Action Network created the Hispanic Leadership Network to bring more Hispanics to the Republican party.
According to the organization’s website, the Hispanic Leadership Network is a “sustained effort to engage the Hispanic Community on center right issues”. Key members include executive director Jennifer Korn, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former United States Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.
Jeb Bush... well well well.
Gutierrez was GW Bush’s “point men working with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration legislation” (wikipedia)
The Bush’s need to go away.
American Action Network repeatedly refers to itself as “center right”, which means it isn’t.
“The Bush’s need to go away.”
Exactly...
I really like it too.
Whoever did that is brilliant!
The organization was founded to promote and support center right issues
I am pretty sure the key words "center right issues" were OKed for a free pass by the IRS Cincinnati Office.
Hispanic Leadership Network “partners” are American Action Forum and American Action Network
Board Members of the American Action Forum
Fred Malek, Chairman, Forum Board and Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group
Senator Norm Coleman, Of Counsel, Hogan Lovells US LLP
James Barksdale, Chairman and President, Barksdale Management Corporation
Peter Bell, Former Chairman, Metropolitan Council
Governor Jeb Bush, President, Jeb Bush and Associates
Elaine Chao, 24th Secretary of Labor
Wendy Grubbs, Managing Director, Global Government Affairs, Citi
Bobbie Kilberg, President, Northern Virginia Technology Council
Lauren Maddox, Principal, The Podesta Group
Governor John R. McKernan, Chairman, Education Management Corporation
Billy Pitts, President, Capitol BrainTrust
Governor Tom Ridge, President and CEO, Ridge Global LLC
Bob Steel, former President and CEO, Wachovia
Sara Martinez Tucker, former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
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