Senate Conservatives Fund
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senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) is a political action committee (PAC). As a PAC, the group can spend money on elections, but is not run by a party or individual candidate. On its website, the SCF states that its goal is to support candidates who prioritize limiting the size of the federal government.[1]
The organization makes endorsements in races for the U.S. Senate as well as the U.S. House and can donate money to parties or candidates it supports.
Mission
As of July 2017, the website for the SCF listed the following mission statement for the organization:[2]
“ SCF is a national grassroots organization that seeks to bring bold conservative leadership to Washington by supporting candidates who will fight for the timeless conservative principles of limited government, strong national defense, and traditional family values.[3] ”
Background
SCF was founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in 2008.[4] The organization initially worked to put conservative lawmakers into seats held by Democrats. In 2012, the SCF moved to also challenge Republican incumbents.[5] In 2014, Politico reported that the organization was "instrumental in pressuring conservative lawmakers to take the hard-line strategy demanding a defunding of Obamacare, even though it led to the government shutdown last October."[6]
Work
2018 elections
In July 2017, after the Senate could not ensure enough votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act or begin debate on the Republican replacement, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the SCF announced its intent to challenge Republican senators who did not support the repeal. In a statement, the group said, "Working with the grassroots across the country, we will seek to identify, recruit, and fund conservative challengers against Republican senators who vote against repeal."[7]
Endorsements
As of July 2017, the SCF had endorsed the following candidates for 2018 congressional elections:
U.S. Senate
Josh Mandel (R-Ohio)
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
2017 elections
The SCF endorsed the following candidates for 2017 congressional elections:[8]
U.S. House
Green check mark transparent.png Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)
Defeated Christopher Herrod (R-Utah)
2016 elections
Endorsements
According to its website, the SCF endorsed the following candidates for 2016 congressional elections:[9]
U.S. Senate
Green check mark transparent.pngMike Lee (R-Utah)
Defeated Darryl Glenn (R-Colo.)
Defeated John Fleming (R-La.)
U.S. House
Green check mark transparent.png Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
Green check mark transparent.png Warren Davidson (R-Ohio)
Green check mark transparent.png Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.)
Green check mark transparent.png Ted Budd (R-N.C.)
Green check mark transparent.png Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)
Green check mark transparent.png Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)
Green check mark transparent.png Rod Blum (R-Iowa)
Defeated Scott Garrett (R-N.J.)
Green check mark transparent.png Tom Garrett (R-Va.)
Green check mark transparent.png Mike Johnson (R-La.)
Expenditures
In the 2016 elections the SCF spent a grand total of $942,105 in independent expenditures: $937,105 for Republicans and $5,000 against Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. [10]
Top 10 largest Senate Conservatives Fund expenditures in 2016
Candidate State Party Office Total For Against
Darryl Glenn Colo. Republican Party U.S. Senate $321,678 $321,678 $0
Mike Lee Utah Republican Party U.S. Senate $166,743 $166,743 $0
Marlin Stutzman Ind. Republican Party U.S. Senate $111,178 $111,178 $0
Ron DeSantis Fla. Republican Party U.S. House $104,438 $104,438 $0
Jim Banks Ind. Republican Party U.S. House $55,260 $55,260 $0
Mary Thomas Fla. Republican Party U.S. House $44,907 $44,907 $0.00
Josh Mandel Ohio Republican Party U.S. Senate $24,323 $24,323 $0
Warren Davidson Ohio Republican Party U.S. House $20,693 $20,693 $0
Mike Johnson La. Republican Party U.S. House $14,665 $14,665 $0
James Bridenstine Okla. Republican Party U.S. House $11,254 $11,254 $0
2014 elections
Endorsements
Defeated Chris McDaniel (Miss.): McDaniel ran against Sen. Thad Cochran in the Republican primary for the seat. [11]
Defeated Matt Bevin (Ky.): Bevin challenged Sen. Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky Republican primary election.[11]
Green check mark transparent.png Ben Sasse (Neb.): Sasse ran for the open U.S. Senate seat, which was held by retiring Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.).[11]
Defeated Milton Wolf (Kan.)[11]
Defeated Rob Maness (La.): Maness ran against Bill Cassidy in the Republican primary.[12]
Green check mark transparent.png Joni Ernst (Iowa)[13]
Green check mark transparent.png Tom Cotton (Ark.)[13]
Targeted candidates
See also: United States Senate special election in Oklahoma, 2014
The Senate Conservatives Fund announced on January 20, 2014, that it would not back James Lankford in the special election to replace retiring Sen. Tom Coburn.[14]
In a statement, executive director Matt Hoskins said, “We won’t support Congressman Lankford’s bid for the Senate because of his past votes to increase the debt limit, raise taxes, and fund Obamacare. We have reviewed his record and it’s clear that conservatives cannot count on him to fight for their principles.”[14]
House conservatives project
In 2013, Senate Conservatives Fund created an initiative to support conservative House members in order to "advance conservative policies in the House and potentially run for the U.S. Senate in the future." As a part of this project, the group endorsed the following candidates in the 2014 election cycle:
Green check mark transparent.png Jim Bridenstine (Okla.)[11]
Green check mark transparent.png Dave Brat (Va.)[13]
Green check mark transparent.png Barry Loudermilk (Ga.)[13]
Green check mark transparent.png Alex Mooney (W.Va.)[13]
Green check mark transparent.png John Ratcliffe (Texas)[13]
Defeated Zach Dasher (La.)[13]
Expenditures
In the 2014 elections the SCF spent a grand total of $3,573,240 in independent expenditures: $80,026 against Democrats, $3,471,714 for Republicans, and $21,500 against Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. [15]
Top 10 largest Senate Conservatives Fund expenditures in 2014
Candidate State Party Office Total For Against
Ben Sasse Neb. Republican Party U.S. Senate $838,297 $838,297 $0
Rob Maness La. Republican Party U.S. Senate $460,112 $460,112 $0
Matt Bevin Ky. Republican Party U.S. Senate $458,870 $458,870 $0
Joni Ernst Iowa Republican Party U.S. Senate $361,012 $361,012 $0
T.W. Shannon Okla. Republican Party U.S. Senate $359,864 $359,864 $0
Chris McDaniel Miss. Republican Party U.S. Senate $274,758 $274,758 $0.00
Alex Mooney W.Va. Republican Party U.S. House $161,209 $161,209 $0
Tom Cotton Ark. Republican Party U.S. Senate $160,770 $160,770 $0
Milton Wolf Kan. Republican Party U.S. Senate $118,361 $118,361 $0
Mark Pryor Ark. Democratic Party U.S. Senate $75,126 $0 $75,126
Campaign ads
Senate Conservatives Fund: Nothing
Senate Conservatives Fund: Rightful Heirs
2012 elections
Endorsements
Senate Conservatives Fund endorsed the following candidates in the 2012 elections:[16]
Green check mark transparent.png Deb Fischer (Neb.-Sen)
Defeated George Allen (Va.-Sen)
Defeated Tom Smith (Pa.-Sen)
Defeated Dan Bongino (Md.-Sen)
Defeated Richard Mourdock (Ind.-Sen)
Green check mark transparent.png Ted Cruz (Texas-Sen)
Defeated Todd Akin (Mo.-Sen)
Defeated Josh Mandel (Ohio-Sen)
Expenditures
In the 2012 elections the SCF spent a grand total of $3,546,738 in independent expenditures: $20,000 against Democrats and $3,529,869 for Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. [16]
Top 10 largest Senate Conservatives Fund expenditures in 2012[16]
Candidate Party State Office Total For Against
Don Stenberg Republican Party NE Senate $996,246 $996,246 $0
Ted Cruz Republican Party TX Senate $985,381 $985,381 $0
Josh Mandel Republican Party OH Senate $303,462 $303,462 $0
Richard Mourdock Republican Party IN Senate $216,280 $216,280 $0
Jeff Flake Republican Party AZ Senate $201,840 $201,840 $0
George Allen Republican Party VA Senate $163,775 $163,775 $0
Tom Smith Republican Party PA Senate $163,186 $163,186 $0
Deb Fischer Republican Party NE Senate $159,515 $159,515 $0
Dan Bongino Republican Party MD Senate $155,131 $155,131 $0
Todd Akin Republican Party MO Senate $121,346 $121,346 $0
Leadership
As of July 2017, the website for the SCF listed the following individuals as the organization's leadership:[2]
Ken Cuccinelli, President
Mary Vought, Communications advisor
Kristin Szafranski, Director of operations
Tom Jones, Political advisor
Scott Travis, Digital advisor
Matt Hoskins, Finance advisor
Spencer Schulze, Development associate
Finances
The following is a breakdown of the SCF's annual contributions and expenditures from 2008 to 2016, as reported to the FEC.
Annual contributions and expenditures for the SCF, 2008-2016
Year Annual contributions Annual expenditures FEC records
2016 $3,827,382 $3,680,860 Filing
2015 $1,974,942 $2,167,659 Filing
2014 $8,891,899 $9,171,711 Filing
2013 $7,733,854 $8,083,425 Filing
2012 $11,581,121 $11,512,062 Filing
2011 $4,363,737 $4,370,686 Filing
2010 $7,940,272 $6,816,185 Filing
2009 $1,315,860 $1,406,561 Filing
2008 $304,222 $190,723 Filing
Legal status
The SCF is a political action committee (PAC). PACs are political committees established and administered by corporations, labor unions, membership organizations or trade associations. The general definition is a group that spends money on elections, but is not run by a party or individual candidate. However, PACs can donate money to parties or candidates they support. These committees raise funds either from individuals associated with the corporation (Separate Segregated Funds) or from any individuals who wish to contribute to the committee (Nonconnected PACs).[17] Nonconnected PACs are financially independent and pay for themselves via the contributions they raise. Separate segregated funds are funded by the organization they are associated with.[18]
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/08/dark-money-1m-on-joni-ernst-2020-senate-race
First-term Sen. Joni Ernst‘s (R-Iowa) 2020 re-election bid and Iowa’s congressional races are a million-dollar battleground for anonymously funded political groups.
Groups aligned with Democrats and Republicans, but not run by particular candidates’ campaigns, have already spent more than $600,000 apiece in Iowa to sway voters’ opinions of Ernst, a Republican, or attack “Medicare for All,” the health care plan championed by some Democrats, according to filings with the Federal Communications Commission and compiled with OpenSecrets’ ad data tool.
The ad campaigns come more than a year before the general election and are airing when the state’s political bandwidth is otherwise consumed by the Democratic presidential caucus race. The onslaught could be a precursor to a flood of cash as Republicans work to maintain their majority in the Senate in 2020, and Democrats aim to flip it.
Rather than advocate for or against a candidate’s election, which would require reporting the spending with the Federal Election Commission, these groups advertise for or against issues Ernst has weighed in on, and then urge viewers to contact her office and share their opinions.
New progressive-aligned group spends big against Ernst
Iowa Voices, which operates as Iowa Forward and has a mailing address in Kellogg, formed in March, according to documents filed with the state. In its less than six months of existence, it has bought or reserved more than $600,000 worth of
criticizing Ernst for her vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The group wheeled out a billboard at the Iowa State Fair that urged Iowans to call Ernst and “tell her to stop voting to gut our health care.” It brought it out again at a recentDes Moines-area town hall Ernst hosted.
Iowa Voices claims it isn’t focused on the election, but rather it wants “to hold Senator Ernst accountable for her actions on health care and taxes,” and pressure her to drop her push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, its communications director, Ben Cobley, said in an email. The group is gathering Iowans’ stories to try to persuade Ernst, he said.
Iowa Voices is building a grassroots movement, according to its website. But as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, it isn’t required to disclose its donors, leaving the public with no information about where its money comes from. While it doesn’t currently solicit donations on its website, Iowa Voices amassed enough cash to launch its six-figure ad campaign within months of its incorporation in March.
Cobley declined to specify its funding source beyond “folks who share our mission and feelings that an (Affordable Care Act) repeal would harm hundreds of thousands of Iowans.” It has partnered with several progressive groups, including the Iowa Citizen Action Network, Progress Iowa, Indivisible Iowa and the Iowa Federation of Labor, Cobley said. An online donation button is also on the way, he said.
It originally launched under the name Heartland Forward and renamed itself Iowa Forward on May 30. It then purchased or reserved more than $434,000 worth of TV ads in the Des Moines market and nearly $160,000 in Cedar Rapids to air 1,738 spots from late July through early November, according to Federal Communications Commission records.
Ernst is no stranger to mysterious political groups. Outside groups spent tens of millions to influence voters during Iowa’s expensive 2014 Senate race, including several prominent Democratic and Republican-aligned nonprofit groups that do not disclose their funders. The Iowa contest, a titanic struggle to win the seat vacated by the retirement of 30-year Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, was the third most expensive Senate race that cycle. Outside groups accounted for almost $63 million out of the $92.6 million spent on it, according to a tally by OpenSecrets.
In an interview in August, Ernst floated enacting disclosure requirements as a way to police anonymously funded ads without infringing on people’s First Amendment rights to express their political opinions. Ernst predicted Iowa will be one of the top targets for spending by independent groups, with unlimited anonymous donors supporting and opposing her re-election bid.
“What I fear is that there is so much outside money being spent that my message is not going to be heard,” Ernst said. “How will people be able to sort through that, and understand that I am not supporting these other messages?”
If people need to disclose who is funding these groups, “then maybe people are a little more cautious about what they’re throwing up on TV or in the newspapers,” Ernst said.
Jordanna Zeigler, the campaign manager for leading Democratic rival Theresa Greenfield, blamed Ernst for “letting special interests spend unlimited amounts of secret money.” She flagged votes Ernst made as far back as her Iowa state Senate service that Zeigler characterized as protecting anonymous spending, and highlighted Greenfield’s support for funding disclosure.
While Greenfield officially has three fellow Democrats she needs to defeat in next year’s primary, her campaign received immediate endorsements from prominent Democrats when it launched in June, and she holds a commanding fundraising lead. She ended the second quarter of 2019 with almost $600,000 on hand, more than triple the next nearest Democrat, according to the most recent FEC filings. Ernst had $3.4 million cash on hand.
Democrats in Congress have led the charge to increase transparency of secret money groups such as political nonprofits and shell companies. Prominent Republicans have pushed back, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) arguing that limits on political spending infringe on free speech rights.
But Democrats are also staffing Iowa Voices, which does not disclose its funding. Former staffers for Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns are among its staffers. The group is run by Emily Holley, former political director for Iowa state Sen. Rob Hogg and Midwest field organizer for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Cobley and fellow Iowa Voices staffer Kate Vibbert are both former Clinton campaign aides.
Republican-aligned groups weigh in to support Ernst
One Nation, an anonymously funded nonprofit associated with Republican strategist Karl Rove, has also shelled out more than $600,000 on TV and digital ads in Iowa. The group is running a batch of ads attacking Medicare for All, and urging viewers to call their members of Congress about it, as well as ads defending Ernst’s record.
Because of how it files its ads with the Federal Communications Commission, it’s difficult to track exactly how much it has spent to sway voters in the Hawkeye State.
One of the
praises Ernst for her support of a bill that would eliminate subsidies for electric vehicles and contends that the tax credits force Iowa taxpayers to subsidize wealthy individuals in California and New York.
In addition to its ties to Rove, One Nation shares its staff and Washington, D.C., offices with Senate Leadership Fund, a powerful super PAC that is linked to McConnell. Now-shuttered outside spending groups linked with Rove spent more than $5.4 million backing Ernst in 2014,according to tracking by OpenSecrets.
These aren’t the only anonymously funded Washington-tied groups to jump into the fray.
Iowa Values, yet another political nonprofit with a generic name, launched a six-month digital ad and voter canvassing effort to support Ernst in late June. The group, run by Johnston mayor Paula Dierenfeld, former Rep. Tom Tauke (R-Iowa) and political strategist Sara Fagen, has spent almost $18,000 on digital ads backing the Republican senator so far, according to Google and Facebook ad databases. It plans to spend six figures on a digital ad campaign, according to a news release.
In a statement announcing its launch, the group also pledged to canvass the state and knock on at least 150,000 doors.
“No other organization will match the work that Iowa Values is doing in 2019,” Tauke, a Republican who represented northeast Iowa in Congress from 1979 to 1991, said in the statement. “With a sophisticated mix of digital advertising and personal contact, Iowa Values will help create a friendly environment for conservative ideas in 2020.”
While this race is still more than a year away, Ernst’s 2014 race against Democrat Bruce Braley attracted a dozen outside groups that spent $1 million or more, and another 37 that spent at least $100,000, according to OpenSecrets. And in all, the vast majority — $44.5 million out of the $62.77 million total — was spent to oppose their candidacies.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/08/anti-establishment-conservative-pac-weighs-in-on-senate-primaries
conservative PAC known for challenging establishment Republicans from the right is backing several Senate candidates in three open primaries that will likely be closely watched in the coming year.
The Senate Conservatives Fund has already spent more than $176,000 on independent expenditures supporting businessman John James, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and retired General Don Bolduc, three Republicans aiming to take on vulnerable Democratic senators in 2020.
James, who narrowly lost a Senate race in 2018, is the only major candidate currently challenging Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), while Mooney and Bolduc will compete in primaries for the chance to take on Sens. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), respectively. All three seats are Republican targets next year as the party fights to keep its Senate majority.
Mooney, who describes himself as “a conservative and an outsider,” is competing in a crowded Alabama primary that includes Judge Roy Moore, who lost to Jones in a 2017 special election. Also in the race are former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill.
Mooney raised $298,314 through the end of the second quarter, putting him well behind both Byrne and Tuberville but significantly ahead of Moore, who raised less than $17,000. Mooney has picked up endorsements from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
The Senate Conservatives Fund, which backed Moore over incumbent Sen. Luther Strange during a primary runoff in 2017, has dropped more than $87,000 in independent expenditures to support Mooney so far, most of which has gone to direct mail and email marketing. It also gave Mooney’s campaign $10,000.
The eventual winner of the Alabama primary will have to raise significant cash to catch up with Jones. The Democratic incumbent continues to receive support from his party nationally and has already raised more than $3.6 million this year.
In New Hampshire, Bolduc is currently in a three-way primary with state Rep. Bill O’Brien and army veteran Corky Messner. A potential wildcard in the race later this fall is President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski,who the president all but endorsed at a Manchester, N.H., rally earlier this month.
Lewandoski told the Washington Examiner last week that he would wait to see other candidates’ third-quarter fundraising numbers before deciding on his own run. None of the Republican Senate candidates in New Hampshire formally filed to run until July, so early fundraising numbers are not yet available for the race. The Senate Conservatives Fund has dished out $26,239 on independent expenditures supporting Bolduc so far.
Shaheen, who was first elected in 2008, had a comfortable $2.8 million cash on hand as of June 30.
The Senate Conservatives Fund, founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in 2008, has often been at odds with mainstream Republican leadership in recent primary elections. A nonconnected PAC, it is allowed to carry out independent expenditures and make limited contributions to federal candidates.
Much of the antagonism with national Republicans occurred under the leadership of Ken Cuccinelli, who was the PAC’s president from 2014 until he was named acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this past June. The former Virginia attorney general was appointed acting director — rather than offered the position permanently — in part because he faced little chance of Senate confirmation given the PAC’s history of challenging establishment senators.
In 2017, the Senate Conservatives Fund briefly backed Brooks during the Republican primary to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. After Brooks was eliminated in the first round of the primary, the PAC backed Moore in his runoff against Strange, who had been appointed to fill Sessions’ seat and had the backing of establishment Republicans. Moore ultimately won the runoff but fell in the general election amid allegations of predatory behavior toward teenage girls.
In 2014, the PAC backed Matt Bevin in his primary challenge to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell won the primary handedly with 60 percent of the vote, and Bevin was elected governor of Kentucky the following year.
This cycle, the Senate Conservatives Fund has raised nearly $948,534 so far. The PAC had $488,963 in cash on hand at the end of July.
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Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) is an independent, grassroots organization that is dedicated to electing true conservative leaders to the U.S. Senate who have the courage to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. SCF does not support incumbent Senators, but instead works to send new leaders to Washington.
http://www.senateconservatives.com/
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UGUST 09, 2014
Harry Reid Attacks Joni Ernst
This is one of the most competitive races in the country and it could determine whether the Democrats continue to control the Senate. Harry Reid (D-NV) knows this, which is why he and his liberal allies are on the air right now attacking Joni Ernst (R-IA) with negative, dishonest TV ads.
AUGUST 07, 2014
Two Liberals and a Conservative
Despite the GOP establishment's efforts to promote liberal Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-LA), conservative Col. Rob Maness (R-LA) is gaining momentum in the race to replace Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) in Louisiana.
AUGUST 06, 2014
Kansas Election Results
Incumbent Senator Pat Roberts defeated conservative Dr. Milton Wolf (R-KS) in the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate by 7 points. However, Milton Wolf exceeded all expectations despite being massively outspent, and over half of the Republicans voted against Pat Roberts.
JULY 31, 2014
Kansas Senate Race Down to Single Digits
We just received the results of our latest poll in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kansas, and the race is down to single digits!! Conservative Dr. Milton Wolf (R-KS) has cut Senator Pat Roberts' lead down to just nine points and only trails 41-32.
JULY 29, 2014
Senate Defeats Transportation Reform
The Senate defeated an important amendment yesterday offered by one of our conservative champions, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).Senator Lee's amendment would devolve the federal highway program to the states, allowing them to keep the vast majority of their gas...
JULY 28, 2014
U.S. Chamber of Cronyism
According to news reports, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to support Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) in the Louisiana Senate race. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)This is the same group that said it was going to spend $50 million against conservatives in primaries to elect more Republicans. That was a huge lie.
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Senate Conservatives Fund is still collecting contributions for a legal fund for Chris McDaniel, whom Cochran defeated — the latest indication that the money backing the conservative insurgency is unlikely to dry up anytime soon.
Donors rejected the idea that ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate was more important than which Republicans made it through the primaries, saying in interviews that they will continue writing checks in hopes of eventually electing more staunch conservatives and libertarians focused on reducing the size of government.
“This is a long-term thing,” said Richard Offerdahl, a Nevada-based biotech entrepreneur, who has given about $300,000 in the last two cycles — the bulk of it to Club for Growth and its endorsed candidates. “It’s taken us since Teddy Roosevelt to get to this high-regulation federal situation. It’s a mess. We’ve tried to put patches on patches on patches, and we’ve created a system that’s best for whoever has the best lobbyists. … It’s taken 90 years to get us where we are, it will take another 95 years to get the federal government the way the founders intended.”
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He also said that primary outcomes weren’t the only measure of success.
“The thing that tells me they are having some success is that they are driving the Republican Party kicking and screaming to a more fiscally conservative position,” Offerdahl said. “I love my country a great deal, but I don’t love the political establishment that believes that all problems can be fixed with legislation.”
Specifically pointing to immigration reform and Export-Import Bank reauthorization, SCF President Ken Cuccinelli also said that donors knew his group was having an impact in ways beyond election results. “We have always had a long-term goal of making the Senate more conservative, and there are a number of ways to do that,” said Cuccinelli, the GOP’s Virginia gubernatorial nominee last year. “The most obvious way is to win with conservative candidates but, the [Export-Import] bank and liberal attempts at amnesty are dead or on life support this year due to the efforts of the conservative grass roots.”
Donors realize that their contributions are long-term investments, and the primary losses weren’t going to keep them from giving, said Fred Young, heir of the Young Radiator fortune in Wisconsin. “Politics is politics,” said Young. “It’s an ongoing process. You’ve got to keep fighting.”
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When the left says Republicans want to ban books... remember the books that have been banned aren't even allowed to be read in front of adults at school board meetings because they're so indecent.
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I just landed in Poland to spend some time with vulnerable orphans and turned on my phone to find out babies in America have a fighting chance at LIFE!!!
The people around me right now have no idea why I’m crying. #prolife
Praise be to God!!!
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It’s not “pro-choice” it’s “pro-abortion”
The baby doesn’t get a “choice” in the matter.
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