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Texas Business Groups Ally to Counter Tea Party Influence in GOP Primaries
The Dallas Morning News ^ | January 4, 2014 | Christy Hoppe

Posted on 01/05/2014 5:55:30 PM PST by JeepersFreepers

Some of Texas’ biggest business trade groups are moving to counter tea party and anti-government forces that have dominated recent Republican primaries.

The movement mirrors the schism happening nationally between hard right and establishment Republicans. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently pledged $50 million to back pro-business Republicans in U.S. Senate primaries and fight tea party insurgents.

Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of the fiscal-hawk group Empower Texans said the Texas Future Business Alliance is nothing but a group of big-money interests wanting taxpayer dollars to flow into their pockets. “This is what we’ve come to expect coming out of the Washington, anti-Ted Cruz movement,” Sullivan said. “They want people who will vote for cronyism and corporate welfare.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2014issues; 2014miderms; amnesty; amnestypimps; cronycapitalism; cronyism; gopestablishment; gopprimaries; gopprimary; karlrove; spending; teaparty; texas
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The increase in the rate of spending in Texas for the past two decades has been more than double the combined increase in population and inflation. (Source). If total state and local debt are combined, Texas ranks number 5 following NY, CA, IL and PA. (Source) Texas fiscal health is not as good as generally perceived and the trends are not good.
1 posted on 01/05/2014 5:55:30 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
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To: JeepersFreepers

Corporatists going all out it seems.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 6:00:43 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: JeepersFreepers

And what’s the bet that union money is behind some of this as well. We’re onto you Karl Rove!


3 posted on 01/05/2014 6:01:19 PM PST by Viennacon (Right vs. Left...... is Right vs. Wrong!)
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To: JeepersFreepers
Crony capitalism on steroids.
We "got ours," so screw small business and blue-collar America.

4 posted on 01/05/2014 6:01:57 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: JeepersFreepers

They ain’t republicans

But they’z queers....


5 posted on 01/05/2014 6:03:56 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Waco enablers


6 posted on 01/05/2014 6:04:20 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: JeepersFreepers

corporations want bigger govt and higher taxes??

yea, that makes sense


7 posted on 01/05/2014 6:07:33 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Menehune56

What a shame. It’s all about the $$$$.

We’ve lost our republic.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 6:07:43 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: JeepersFreepers

Look at the economic development fund. Every state has one and every one gives taxpayer money to private business.


9 posted on 01/05/2014 6:07:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JeepersFreepers

snip

The Texas Future Business Alliance — a mix of 10 major business groups,
including the chemical industry, bankers, builders and contractors — is
sending out mailers and providing other support on behalf of GOP candidates
who have supported water infrastructure development, highway construction
and education spending.

end snip

They can be player statewide with money in many races involving the Texas Legislature.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 6:08:23 PM PST by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like you haven’t been told the truth about the economy in Texas.

I’ve read elsewhere that the economy in Texas is based on cheap illegal alien labor, both in the agriculture and construction sectors.


11 posted on 01/05/2014 6:09:05 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Good article, all around. Thanks. Watching the establishment’s sting at being nailed as establishment is satisfying.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 6:09:32 PM PST by txhurl
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To: GeronL

Ping.


13 posted on 01/05/2014 6:11:56 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SatinDoll

cheap illegal alien labor

***********

Illegal alien doesn’t necessarily mean cheap.


14 posted on 01/05/2014 6:12:42 PM PST by deport
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To: txhurl

Wanna bet that Rove has his paws in there somewhere?


15 posted on 01/05/2014 6:12:42 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: JeepersFreepers; BlackElk

Turning red states blue is suicide, but the corporates who benefited from American capitalism have turned the corner on America’s economic health and even on her best interests, partnered with and sometime sold out to globalists, until who hasn’t thrown in with the globalists is an ever shrinking number.

Conservative big pockets are about to get picked, bought and sold, until this Republic folds up and cooperates. When Texas implodes, I wonder what’s left short of,......you-know-what.

Before long we may be down to Smith & Wesson, Duck Dynasty markets, and chicfilet franchises.


16 posted on 01/05/2014 6:14:28 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, so very true.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 6:18:08 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Army Air Corps

You betcha. Taste the panic.

But mostly I smell Cornyn sweat.


18 posted on 01/05/2014 6:18:44 PM PST by txhurl
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To: SatinDoll
"I’ve read elsewhere that the economy in Texas is based on cheap illegal alien labor, both in the agriculture and construction sectors."

Unlike Iowa, California, New York, Florida, Washington, Illinois, Maine, Connecticut....

19 posted on 01/05/2014 6:18:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: JeepersFreepers; All

All the Business Socialists and Free Trader Communists know the Tea Party can end their taxpayer funded schemes

Sad that most of the wealthy and corporates are the biggest Socialists around


20 posted on 01/05/2014 6:26:06 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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