rssClub For Growth Jumps Into Five Senate Races
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 9:07 am
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The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack ads targeting “the liberal, out-of-touch records of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Gov. Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold, Michael Bennet, and Harry Reid”:
“Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson, Ken Buck, and Sharron Angle belong in the Senate, and Club for Growth Action is going to do everything it can to get them there,” said Club President Chris Chocola. “This five-state, $1.5 million buy adds to the first wave in a campaign that we expect to be the most successful economic freedom has had in decades.”
It’s the Club’s first purchase in all these states, with the exception of Pennsylvania, where the group has already spent $500,000 attacking Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and bolstering their former president, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Sestak’s camp shot back yesterday, drawing Pennsylvania voters’ attention to a new website, www.therealtoomeyforsenate.com, which plays upon Toomey’s history as a former Wall Street trader and a Club for Growth president.
Styled as a slick, corporate website — the bottom reads “The Real Pat Toomey | New York | Hong Kong | Washington, D.C.” — it’s a one stop shop for damming quotes about Toomey, including one from Derivatives Strategy magazine, which argued that, with Toomey in Congress, “now the derivatives industry can claim representation by one of its own.”
The Club for Growth, meanwhile, has two main entities: a traditional PAC, which has reported raising a little over $2 million through the end of July, and a new, independent expenditure group, which has raised over $600,000 from just four contributors through the same time period. A full half million of it came from Jackson Stephens Jr., whose father helped build Arkansas-based Stephens, Inc., into one of the largest investment banks outside Wall Street. Stephens Jr., who serves on the Club for Growth’s board of directors, is listed as an executive at EOE, Inc., or ExOxEmis, a privately-held biological company based in Little Rock.
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Comment posted September 17, 2010 @ 7:43 pm
If even the Club for Growth, read Koch money and lots of it, isn't supporting O'Donnell she might as well run back to Mother Schlafly and save every body a lot of nonsense.
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The anti American worker group known as Pro Growth Club believes in in the Chinese for of FREE TRADE not FAIR TRADE!
Beijing’s state-run Xinhua news service was quick to herald the latest lobbying effort on China’s behalf launched by the Club for Growth, a libertarian organization dedicated to electing public officials who agree with its free trade ideology.
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Comment posted October 13, 2010 @ 5:33 am
Why did China hire “Club For Growth” to lobby and elect Republicans these?
David Harmer (CA-11), Keith Rothfus (PA-04), Andy Harris (MD-01),Nan Hayworth (NY-19), Jesse Kelly (AZ-08). David Schweikert (AZ-05), Joe Miller (AK-Sen), Tim Griffin (AR-02), Todd Young (IN-09)
Stephen Fincher (TN-08), Ken Buck (CO-Sen), Mick Mulvaney (SC-05),Rand Paul (KY-Sen), Ron Johnson (WI-Sen), Sharron Angle (NV-Sen), Justin Amash (MI-03), Mike Pompeo (KS-04), Tim Huelskamp (KS-01), Tim Scott (SC-01),Jeff Duncan (SC-03), Tom Graves (GA-09), Pat Toomey (PA-Sen), Marco Rubio (FL-Sen),Mike Lee (UT-Sen), Jim DeMint (SC-Sen),Tom Coburn (OK-Sen)
Club For Growth spends $millions and $millions to elect these Republicans to represent China on trade with America. China Beijing’s state-run Xinhua news service was quick to herald the latest lobbying effort on China’s behalf launched by the Club for Growth,
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