Posted on 09/15/2015 7:51:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization, is launching a $1 million television campaign against Republican front-runner Donald Trump. The ads, to air in battleground state Iowa starting Thursday, will hammer Trump on his record supporting national health care, the Wall Street bailout, “eminent-domain abuse,” and “protectionist” trade policies.
The television ads will close with Club for Growth president David McIntosh’s slogan that Trump is “the worst kind of politician.”
“Donald Trump has the worst record in the entire field on economic policies,” said McIntosh. “He’ll say anything to get elected, and he’ll do just the opposite when he’s in office.”
The ad campaign, unveiled today at the National Press Club in Washington, marks the first large-scale media attack effort of the Republican primary. The launch is propelled by the Club’s belief that Trump could potentially seal the Republican nomination “if we don’t take him seriously.” Club for Growth Action, the political arm of the group, is funding it.
Mcintosh said that the Iowa campaign is the beginning of a sustained effort “to make Americans understand that Trump is not an economic conservative.”
“He can’t hide from his record,” McIntosh said. “The American people are wiser than that. They’ll get it.”
McIntosh said that the Club for Growth is the first group willing to call out Trump for his “Obama-like” economic policies. He said he imagines other conservative organizations will quickly follow suit.
#share#The announcement comes just one month after McIntosh asked Club for Growth members to dole out funds for “a series of ads in key states aimed at educating Republican primary voters about Donald Trump’s real record.”
The ad campaign is the latest in a string of public clashes between the organization and Trump. McIntosh has called Trump “a liability to the future of the nation,” saying he falls just short of Bernie Sanders as “the most liberal candidate” in the field.
Trump says that the Club for Growth is attacking him because he refused their request for a $1 million donation in June.
“The phony Club For Growth, which asked me in writing for $1,000,000 (I said no), is now wanting to do negative ads on me. Total hypocrites!” Trump wrote on Twitter on September 6.
He later posted a photo of a letter McIntosh sent to Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager. “During our meeting, Mr. Trump expressed an interest in supporting the Club for Growth,” McIntosh wrote in the letter. “Enclosed is a letter for Mr. Trump and a request for a $1,000,000 contribution.”
The Club for Growth maintains that Trump’s team requested the meeting hoping to win the group’s support, not the other way around. The letter itself does not make clear who initiated the talk.
The group has a hawkish record of attacking candidates who don’t meet its litmus test for conservatism. Earlier this year, it launched an ad attacking Mike Huckabee for raising taxes during his tenure as governor of Arkansas.
The Club for Growth Action’s largest donor of this year, Richard Uihlein, the CEO of a Wisconsin shipping company — who gave the group $500,000 — has donated $2.5 million to a super PAC supporting Scott Walker.
— Elaina Plott is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review Institute.
HMMM—that’s interesting.
They have ALL asked Trump for money at one time or another.
Should be a very interesting Fall with him releasing the letters on Instagram.
Get out in front of this, give the people the GOPe Playbook and blunt it.
Tell the people what to expect from the establishment. It will work wonders.
The problem with the Club For Growth, is that they are basically a one issue group. That issue tends to draw Conservative support; but the logical limitations on letting a one issue group determine your candidates, are very obvious.
Ijust love this line:
“He’ll say anything to get elected, and he’ll do just the opposite when he’s in office.”
That sounds like most everyone who has ever run for office.
Who funds The Club For Growth?
I’m anxious to see how Trump handles serious, substantive criticism.
RE: Who funds The Club For Growth?
I would say very rich donors.
The Koch Brothers among them.
Stephen Moore. Pat Toomey.
RE: Why don’t they wait for Trump’s tax plan to come out?
What ever happened to Trump’s previous tax proposal?
Here it is ( or was, unless it has been modified or changed ):
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Tax_Reform.htm
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My 5-part tax plan involves reforming the income tax. The government confiscates way too much of your paycheck. The tax code is also a very complicated system that forces Americans to waste 6.1 billion hours a year trying to figure it out.
What does that tell you? It tells me that it’s time we restore simplicity & sanity to the income tax. Here’s my income tax plan:
Up to $30,000, you pay 1%
From $30,000 to $100,000, you pay 5%
From $100,000 to $1 million, you pay 10%
On $1 million or above, you pay 15%
It’s clear and fair. Best of all, it can be filled out on the back of a postcard and will save Americans big bucks on accountants and massive amounts of time wasted attempting to decipher the tax code.
Our country is hungry for real tax reform. That’s why we should implement the 1-5-10-15 income tax plan. And we need to enact [the rest of] my 5-part tax policy: kill the death tax; lower the tax on capital gains & dividends; eliminate corporate taxes; and a 20% import tax.
The complete tax plan is supposed to come out later this month.
Is there any candidate who wants to abolish the IRS?
The “Club” for “Growth”;
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/about/staff/ AND
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/about/board-of-directors/
SOURCE:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/club-for-growth-a-big-fan-of-kochs/article/2560120
EXCERPT:
Club for Growth ‘a big fan’ of Kochs
Its spending overshadowed by conservative advocacy groups funded by the Koch Industries, the pro-business Club for Growth is expressing interest in being “aligned” with the Kochs, potentially creating an even more influential force in the 2016 elections.
“I have been a big fan of what Charles and David [Koch] have created as a great influence on the Republican Party and, frankly, I think they can take the fair amount of credit for getting the Republican majorities,” said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth.
While the Club for Growth generally tries to influence the GOP primary process, helping economically focused candidates win, Koch assistance has generally flowed in general elections. But that may be changing as Koch eyes primaries, too.
SOURCE:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/club-for-growth-a-big-fan-of-kochs/article/2560120
EXCERPT:
Club for Growth ‘a big fan’ of Kochs
Its spending overshadowed by conservative advocacy groups funded by the Koch Industries, the pro-business Club for Growth is expressing interest in being “aligned” with the Kochs, potentially creating an even more influential force in the 2016 elections.
“I have been a big fan of what Charles and David [Koch] have created as a great influence on the Republican Party and, frankly, I think they can take the fair amount of credit for getting the Republican majorities,” said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth.
While the Club for Growth generally tries to influence the GOP primary process, helping economically focused candidates win, Koch assistance has generally flowed in general elections. But that may be changing as Koch eyes primaries, too.
These people are so stupid. Dumb. Moronic. Idiots. Unproductive.
Why don’t they run ads against Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Oh, that would be the smart thing. Never mind.
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