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 partys outreach to the growing Latino electorate.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The Podesta Group is a lobbying and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1988 by brothers John Podesta and Tony Podesta and has previously been known as Podesta Associates, podesta.com and PodestaMattoon. The firm most recently reorganized in January 2007 after current Chairman Tony Podesta split with former business partner Dan Mattoon.
Podesta Group represents U.S. corporations, as well as non-profits, associations and governments. It “has close ties to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration.”
Lauren Maddox
Prior to her work in the Bush Administration, Lauren spent nearly seven years at the Podesta Group. Before that, she was a senior communications advisor to the House Majority Leadership, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts, Jr. She began her career on Capitol Hill as press secretary for Colorado Republican Joel Hefley. She also served as the senior spokesperson and communications strategist for two national health care trade associations. Maddox earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Creighton University in Omaha, NE, and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
I wonder if they have "SUCKER" tattooed on their foreheads.
Ever notice how’s there’s more and more “conservative” groups calling themselves conservative?
infiltration
Conservatives United Against Conservatism funded and run by leftists
Claiming to be conservative doesn’t make it so. Conservatives don’t need to lie or pretend.
You can stand with a copy of Mao's Little Red Book over your heart and lean in any effing direction you want, but that doesn't make you a Conservative.
Restrict welfare benefits and SS to American Citizens and legal immigrants who have paid taxes here.
Secure the border.
Deport the illegals, starting with the criminals.
Then we can talk about a 'path to citizenship'--but if you are caught here illegally, you are out of here, no green card, no freebies, and never to be a citizen.
If that SOB is for it, I'm agin' it.
Norm Coleman? There’s a blast from the past...
Jim Barksdale
Shamey
Maybe I’ll start a “liberal” group to trick the liberals. :)
Except we conservatives are too honest to be such phonies.
LA Times people,.......need say more?
Why aren’t the Unions opposing it?
very true pic. keep posting it,everywhere
So, ‘right leaning’ is any group that isn’t openly Communist?
they use our principles against us. They have none.
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in the union a republican form of government,
AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM AGAINST INVASION."
No Conservative would do such a thing... a soros backed republicrat would however.
LLS
So then in other words it’s NOT Conservative by any means. As I’ve been posting since I joined FR in Jan. of 2004 “THEY” are redefining Conservatism. By calling themselves “Conservatives”, their politics as “Conservative” “THEY” are redefining what Conservatism is to suit their agenda. “THEY” are actually todays “Republicans”, the GOPe, who are nothing less than sychophants of the Democrat rule. Stealth Democrats if you will. That IS my personal opinion.
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