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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/**2013/07/**groundswell-ginni-thomas-**war-karl-rove/**
groundswell, the recently created coalition of prominent right-wing activists and journalists, gathers weekly to coordinate messaging and plot strategy for “a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation.” These sessions usually fixate on how best to battle the president, congressional Democrats, and progressive groups. But their 30-front war also includes something of a civil war: a fierce crusade against the Republican establishment and Karl Rove, the GOP strategistand Fox News pundit.
Rove is a regular topic of discussion—and frustration—at Groundswell’s Wednesday morning meetings, according to the documents obtained by Mother Jones. At these sessions, and in messages shared by participants on Groundswell’s Google group page, Groundswellers often gripe that the GOP’s inside-the-Beltway crowd wants to marginalize the party’s ideological die-hards and recruit, promote, and support political candidates deemed less strident and more electable. Rove especially ticked off tea-party-minded conservatives in February when the super-PAC he advises, American Crossroads, announced it was launching the Conservative Victory Project, which would try to block far-right candidates from blowing key races, as Missouri’s Todd Akin and Indiana’s Richard Mourdock did in Senate contests last year.
Yet as Rove kicked off this project, Groundswellers, in closed-doors meetings, initiated an effort to crush Rove, who they believed had helped shape a post-election post-mortemby the Republican National Committee that called on the party to temper its message to appeal to a broader swath of voters.
At the group’s March 20 meeting, Groundswell participants reviewed the details of this vigorous anti-Rove endeavor, according to notes prepared after the session. This memo referred to a “two front war” to tear down the prominent GOP strategist who engineered the political triumphs of George W. Bush. Under the subject head “ROVE PROJECT,” the memo reported:
Rove is still actively networking and building his financial capabilities, an indication that we are not yet being effective. His associates have quietly contributed to the drafting of the RNC document, Autopsy. The Autopsy Report…has drawn fire from the Tea Party, social conservatives and conservatives in general. It undermines the RNC platform…
The Two Front War: The two front war covers finances and reputation. Rove has relationships built over the last two decades. He must become toxic among the grass roots and among his base. His effectiveness has been called into question on Sunday talk shows and at CPAC. Regarding financing, the donors to his Crossroads [super-PAC] are public. They must be educated to the fact, Rove is not a conservative and his efforts are not effective.
Rove’s position as party spokesperson was established as a result of the Bush election. Rove gained the title and the credit for being the “great architect.” Fox has given Rove a platform and just renewed his contract. In truth, Rove no more represents conservatives then Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton represent all Blacks.
The memo cautioned that smashing Rove would take time: “Rove has been building his power base for decades. Change requires time and patience.” It suggested “powerful messaging points” to use against him: “Rove does not speak for GOP like Sharpton does not speak for black community” and “Who put you in charge?”
“Rove has relationships built over the last two decades. He must become toxic among the grass roots and among his base.”
The Rove Project was a key agenda item at other Groundswell get-togethers. At a February 20 meeting, Groundswell participants talked about how best to “continue efforts to educate conservatives to this real and present danger to our future success”—meaning Rove—and attendees were informed thatKen Blackwell, a former Ohio secretary of state now affiliated with the Family Research Council, was identifying donors to conservative causes who “need specific attention.” That is, Blackwell was compiling a list of conservative funders to pressure to boycott Rove.
During a March 6 meeting, it was announced that the Rove Project would be one of Groundswell’s 10 working groups. (Others included national security, messaging, ground game, immigration, and Benghazi.) Sandy Rios, a fellow Fox News contributor, was put in charge of the campaign to discredit Rove. Weeks later, though, a Groundswell memo noted that the Conservative Action Project—a coalition of more than 100 right-wing organizations that is chaired by former Attorney General Edwin Meese—would be “taking the lead” on the Rove Project.
Rove did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, one of the leading members of Groundswell and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Through Groundswell’s Google group, members were asked in February to sign a letter organized by Diana Banister, a Groundsweller and a partner at the Shirley & Banister PR firm, demanding the firing of Jonathan Collegio, American Crossroads’ communications director. Collegio’s sin: He had called Brent Bozell, a conservative media critic, a “hater” in an interview. (Collegio had been reacting to Bozell’s attack on Rove’s plan to oppose unelectable conservative Republican candidates.) The letter, addressed to American Crossroads president Steven Law, proclaimed, “You obviously mean to have a war with conservatives and the Tea Party.”
The Groundswellers certainly seem to believe they are engaged in all-out combat with Rove and GOP insiders. In February,Blackwell posted an article on Groundswell’s Google group page and stated, “War has been declared on the conservative movement.” The article was about Rove’s effort to back credible GOP candidates.
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We ask that the GOP conference meet immediately to vote on stripping Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger from their membership in the GOP conference. We further inform you that conservative leaders are launching a nationwide movement to add citizens’ voices to this effort.
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The Honorable Jim DeMint Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013) | Ed Corrigan Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute |
Jenny Beth Martin Chairman Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund | The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II Chairman Election Transparency Initiative |
David N. Bossie President Citizens United | The Honorable Tony Perkins President Family Research Council |
The Honorable David McIntosh President Club for Growth | Scott T. Parkinson VP for Government Affairs Club for Growth |
Rachel A. Bovard Senior Director of Policy Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) | The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. Chief Domestic Advisor President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988) |
L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President Media Research Center | Alfred S. Regnery President Republic Book Publishers |
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David Bozell President ForAmerica | Noah Wall Executive Vice President FreedomWorks |
Chad Connelly Founder and President Faith Wins | Terry Schilling President American Principles Project |
William L. Walton The Bill Walton Show Resolute Protector Foundation | The Honorable Brooke Rollins President and CEO America First Policy Institute (AFPI) |
The Honorable Russ Vought Director Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021) | Wesley Denton Chief Operating Officer Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) |
Ginni Thomas President Liberty Consulting | Lori Roman President ACRU Action Fund |
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer President American Values | The Honorable Briscoe Cain State Representative Texas House of Representatives |
Elaine Donnelly President Center for Military Readiness | Craig Shirley Reagan Biographer Presidential Historian |
Alan M. Gottlieb Chairman Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms | Gary A. Hofmeister Businessman Business Owner |
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr. Managing Editor ConservativeHQ.com | Seton Motley President Less Government |
H. Preston Hawkins Chairman The Association for Community Education, Inc. | Richard Manning President Americans for Limited Government |
Jeremy Cerone Member Council for National Policy | Robert K. Fischer Meeting Coordinator Conservatives of Faith |
William Shaker CEO Washington Marketing Group | Paavo Ensio Chairman Universal Minerals Group |
Richard D Hayes Partner Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP | Joan Holt Lindsey President Lindsey Communications |
Allen J. Hebert Chairman American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston | The Honorable Mary Vought Executive Director Senate Conservatives Fund |
Clare Lopez Founder/President Lopez Liberty LLC | Sheryl Kaufman Board of Directors Americans for Limited Government |
Dr. Allen Unruh Founder National Abstinence Clearinghouse | Amapola Hansberger President Legal Immigrants for America |
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell President The Leadership Institute | Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.) Executive Vice President Family Research Council |
Brandon Zehm Owner Zehm & Associates | Dr. Richard Rounsavelle Trustee MRC |
Jenna L. Ellis, Esq.:{ Chair Election Integrity Alliance}: | Wendy Borcherdt Retired Political Volunteer Board Member, Hoover Institution |
Jessie Jane Duff Gunnery Sergeant, US Marine Corps (ret) Ambassador, America First Policy Institute (AFPI) | Ralph A. Rebandt II Gubernatorial Candidate Ralph Rebandt for Governor |
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas Chairman Conservative Caucus | Melvin Adams President Noah Webster Educational Foundation |
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The Honorable Mike Hill Former Member Florida State Representative |
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sandy-rios-backs-trumps-civil-war-warning-its-reality/
Sandy Rios Backs Trump’s Civil War Warning: ‘It’s Reality’
By Jared Holt | October 1, 2019 4:47 pm
Sandy Rios speaks at Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2018. (Photo: Jared Holt for Right Wing Watch)]
American Family Association governmental affairs director and radio host Sandy Rios told listeners that President Donald Trump was not out of step to share a warning with the nation that a “Civil War-like fracture” would happen should he be impeached.
On Tuesday’s edition of “Sandy Rios in the Morning” on American Family Radio, Rios took issue with GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s reaction to Trump tweeting a quote from evangelical pro-Trump pastor Robert Jeffress’ warning of a “Civil War-like fracture” if Trump is impeached. Kinzinger wrote on Twitter: “I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. … I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant.”
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I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. @realDonaldTrump I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178477539653771264 …
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....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews
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“I would just say to Congressman Kinzinger, if I ever cared to interview him, which I don’t—this is not the first thing he’s done that has not won my approval, that’s for sure—if he has seen war-torn areas, then he, of all people, should be the watchman-on-the wall warning,” Rios said. “Because I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to understand that the tensions are growing in this country so much so that there is a divide that’s setting in that is much like a precursor to any civil unrest.”
Rios compared modern-day America to the time before the American Civil War when “families were divided” over the issue of slavery. Rios asked her viewers: “Are your families divided over politics right now, over President Trump, over his policies? Are you having problems in your own family, with your own friends, at work? You know that you are!”
Trump and Jeffress putting out warnings of a rupture in the nation akin to that of the Civil War, Rios argued, “is not a stretch and it’s certainly not repugnant. It’s reality.”
Rebecca Kleefisch Appears on Show Whose Host Compared Unions to Terrorists, Called for Ellen DeGeneres to Be Fired for Being Gay
Submitted by Josh Glasstetter on Wed, 03/28/2012
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch appeared Monday on the American Family Association (AFA) radio network with host Sandy Rios. AFA, which has been classified a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, recently added Rios to its lineup.
Rios gained notoriety early last month when an incredulousBill O’Reilly suggested she was engaging in McCarthyism for calling onJ.C. Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres because she’s gay. Earlier she wrote that accepting Ellen would lead to “the complete eradication of the traditional family and the acceptance of any sexual choice anyone wants to make.” This month she lamentedthat “the Jewish vote in this country is so confused” and said that secular Jews have been some of “the worst enemies of the country.”
This kind of thing is nothing new for Rios, as Kleefisch had to know. Last year, debating the Obama administration contraceptives mandate, Rios equated birth control and abuse counseling with pedicures and manicures. She also compared unions and the Obama campaign to a terrorist group, writing that “Organizing for America, the SEIU, the NEA and many of America’s labor unions have … more in common with the violence and intimidation of Hamas than with protecting ‘workers.’”
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sandy Rios is an American Family Association member, governmental affairs director, a Fox News Channel contributor,[1] and a talk radio host.
She is chairman of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, a coalition that advocates for the citizens of North Korea.[2]
In July 2013, Rios was identified as a key member of Groundswell, a secretive coalition of right wing activists and journalists attempting to make radical political change behind the scenes.[3]
In January 2007, she returned as WYLL afternoon host through July 2010.[4]
Rios was given the 2005 Henry Hyde Leadership Award, a Pro-Life Action League's "Protector Award", Eagle Forum's Excellence Award and Family PAC's 1999 "Conservative of the Year".[5]
In 2015, she publicly claimed the sexual orientation of an AMTRAK engineer on duty during the 2015 Philadelphia train derailment was a possible factor in the crash.[6]
References
- ^ "Debate Over Whether Obama Administration Is Making Unmarried Women Dependent on Government". Fox News. 2010-07-30. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "Moody Radio".
- ^ "PHOTOS: Meet Groundswell's Major Players". Mother Jones.
- ^ WYLL Sandy Rios Retrieved October 24, 2007 Archived November 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ MBN Commentary Retrieved October 24, 2007
- ^ Arana, Gabriel (14 May 2015). "Conservative Host Sandy Rios Thinks Amtrak Engineer's Sexuality Is 'A Factor' In Crash". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
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Sandy Rios is Director of Governmental Affairs for the American Family Association, one of America's largest, pro-family grassroots organizations. Based in Washington, DC, she is host of "Sandy Rios in the Morning on AFR Talk" which can be heard on nearly 200 stations through the American Family Radio Network.
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