Posted on 07/24/2015 6:49:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is gearing up to challenge some House Republicans in primary elections, frustrated after much of its agenda has been stymied by a small pocket of conservative GOP lawmakers.
The influential and well-heeled business group is already eyeing several races, but the plans are still in their infancy and the targets have not yet been decided upon, according to more than a half dozen Republican sources on K Street and Capitol Hill.
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. The group’s apparent new willingness to engage in hand-to-hand political combat to take out sitting Republicans would represent a major shift for the business community, which has largely shied away from targeting sitting lawmakers.
House GOP leadership sources say they’re unaware of and don’t support any attempt to target sitting GOP lawmakers. But the Chamber’s internal dialogue comes as House Republican leaders have struggled to maintain discipline in their ranks. Recent attempts to crack down on dissenting lawmakers have backfired.
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Target RINOs in primaries.
As a small business owner, I am a member of my local chamber ... this make me really wonder if it is a good investment.
I don’t know how the organization is structured, but the national Chamber of Commerce has become the enemy of the citizens and national sovereignty. They are demanding amnesty for the employers of illegal aliens. That’s who the amnesty is really for.
Everybody just thinks it’s for the children /s
Does the chamber get money, or give money, to planned parenthood?
So, the multinational corporation Chamber of Commerce has declared war against conservatives? But that’s the thing about war, your enemy tends to shoot back.
So an open question to conservatives: how best can we kick seven bells out of the CoC?
The list is missing Herbert Mowen and James Taggart.
Thanks for the list.
That looks like a hit list to me. Make it so #1!
The wicked abound...
House GOP leadership sources say they’re unaware of and don’t support any attempt to target sitting GOP lawmakers.
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GOP leaders are known to lie. Ask Ted Cruz.
Let them do exactly, what they are doing. It’s a rough sport, watching bastards kill themselves. Takes every good God given gift, to endure the wait.
It’s not.
Try the NFIB.
Thanks!
I see LOTS of left wing companies and connections from ultra-blue States.
I also see the Kentucky Chamber connection which is probably what is controlling the Senate.
I suspect Obama has infiltrated the Chamber and is using it to control the Senate agenda.
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