Club for Growth

Moving ahead with something that political wags had expected for months, the Club for Growth is backing Marco Rubio against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the contested 2010 primary for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat.
The Club ended up spending close to $1 million in the just-concluded NY-23 race, with only two months in the field. [...]

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Early last night, when the mood at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign headquarters was a lot lighter than it later became, campaign communications director Rob Ryan told me that there were two major inflection points in the race. The first was when the Club for Growth endorsed Hoffman.
“We were [...]

It’s no secret that national fundraising has buoyed the campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election. But the full extent is remarkable. We crunched the FEC contribution numbers this afternoon to discover that 95 percent of Hoffman’s donations came from individuals and PACs based outside of the district. (Hoffman [...]

“This is a state that Democrats said was going blue, or least purple,” said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, on Virginia. “How do they explain it if they lose?”

I asked Rob Ryan, a spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, if his campaign would ask the deceptive “Common Sense for America” ad to be taken off the air. The ad, sponsored by a Club for Growth donor, tells progressives to vote for Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava.
“We were as surprised as anyone else,” [...]

Josh Kraushaar finds the allies of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, airing a phony ad for Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava under the guise of a phony group called Common Sense for America. The funding comes from Jackson Stephens, a board member of the Club for Growth.
Republican candidate Jim Tedisco [...]

Recent polls sponsored by the Club for Growth and the Minuteman PAC, which show Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the three-way NY-23 race, have had a sizable effect on coverage of the election. But Steven Greenberg of the Siena Poll, which has conducted the only non-partisan (in the sense that [...]

Doug Hoffman, the insurgent Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District posts this picture of his Canastota, N.Y. office on Twitter:

The fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which has sunk more than $600,000 into the New York 23rd Congressional District special election, is pushing the results of their own new poll (conducted by Basewood Research):
The poll of 300 likely voters, conducted October 24-25, 2009, shows Conservative Doug Hoffman at 31.3 percent, Democrat Bill Owens at 27.0 [...]

Last week, it was clear that Democrats considered the NY-23 race closer than the polls suggested, and that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman had truly stopped being a “spoiler” and started being a possible winner. Today, the DCCC is going after Hoffman with the first negative ad anyone has run against him.
I’ve asked the DCCC [...]