Arizonans also go to the polls today, but the much anticipated GOP Senate primary race between Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. J. D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) hasn’t materialized into the close contest that many, including McCain, feared it might have. One reason it never got dicey for McCain, however, More…
Political groups like Club for Growth and Commonsense Ten have won advisory opinions from the FEC allowing them to set up independent expenditure groups that will be allowed to receive unlimited donations from corporations — but was the FEC even authorized to let them do so? That’s the question that More…
In a detailed piece for BNA Money & Politics Report, Kenneth Doyle details new developments following the Federal Election Commission’s ruling in July that two political organizations could collect unlimited contributions while registering as a political action committee (PAC).
If the Tea Party movement is the showy cheerleader in conservative politics that gets all the attention, then the Club For Growth is the sullen looking boy who you ignore at your own peril.
Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) changed his party affiliation last year from Republican to Democrat ahead of this year’s difficult primary race. Republican Gov. Charlie Crist recently announced recently that he will make an Independent bid for Senate in the face of a tough GOP primary challenge in Florida. Now, will More…
When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s “Repeal It” pledge of official support, Connolly suggested that repercussions couldn’t really happen until January 2011, when new members of Congress have a chance to introduce repeal legislation. If they More…
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola is beseeching Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who has long been thought of as a contender for a Senate seat in his state, to run against Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.).
Mike Pence is the kind of pro-growth hero that the Senate and the nation
The Club for Growth is hustling to put up the signatories of its pledge to repeal whatever health care reform bill gets through Congress. The big names among the (so far) 21 candidates: Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Florida’s Marco Rubio, Republicans who have stunned the establishment GOP by becoming More…
Democratic strategists are champing at the bit for Republicans to go on the record for total repeal of health care reform — the strategists believe that once the furor dies down, provisions like the ban on denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions will prove popular. Right on cue, the Club More…
The small government PAC, which has been blasting Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) for months over his compromises with Democrats, is officially going in for his defeat.
“Bob Bennett is out of touch with the times and with his state, and Utah Republicans have better choices for their candidate in
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