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Big Money is done with the Tea Party.
    #19067020 - 10/31/13 11:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/romney-donors-back-democrat-over-tea-party-in-georgia.html

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Signs of the Republican Party rift between business and the Tea Party are showing up where Democrats most want to see them: in the campaign account of Michelle Nunn, daughter of four-term Georgia Senator Sam Nunn.

“The vast majority of Americans say they don’t want the government to shut down, they want middle ground,” said John Wieland, founder of John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Inc., who together with his wife penned checks totaling $10,400 to Nunn’s Democratic U.S. Senate bid. In the 2010 midterms, the Wielands each gave $4,800 to the Republican Senate candidate.
Enlarge image Romney Backers Switching Sides in Georgia Race in Tea Party Snub

With the help of son, Vinson, left, and husband Ron, U. S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn Martin and other volunteers stuff book bags with school supplies for residents of the Georgia Industrial Children's Home on Aug. 7, 2013. Photographer: Beau Cabell/The Telegraph/AP Images

“Michelle understands that middle ground, and that’s why we wrote the checks,” Wieland said.

It’s a sentiment shared by some business donors from Virginia to Arkansas, and one Democrats want to spread as the parties vie for control of the Senate in the 2014 midterms.

Nunn, 46, is running for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, and her opponent has yet to be determined. Eight Republicans are competing in a June 3 primary, including three U.S. House members who supported the ill-fated plan to link defunding Obamacare to lifting the debt ceiling and passing a government spending bill. Their efforts led to a 16-day shutdown that Standard & Poor’s estimated cost the U.S. economy $24 billion.

In addition to Wieland, Nunn’s donors include Jim Cox Kennedy, the chairman of Atlanta-based communications company Cox Enterprises Inc., who contributed $2,600 to her candidacy, after giving $30,800 to the Republican National Committee and $5,000 to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Romney Donor

She’s also got support from Tom Cousins, former chief executive officer of Cousins Properties Inc. (CUZ) and a developer who helped shape downtown Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s, who has given her $5,200. Cousins donated $50,800 to the RNC and $5,000 to Romney. Both Kennedy and Cousins declined to comment on their donations.

The financial push-back by the business community against the small-government Tea Party movement extends to Virginia, where Republican businessmen are cutting checks and commercials to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the governor’s race rather than state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican Tea-Party favorite.

In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Mark Pryor is facing U.S. Representative Tom Cotton, a House Republican who voted against opening the government and a five-year farm bill. Pryor is highlighting both votes to draw donations from the agriculture community and other boardrooms.
Arkansas Giving

As of June 30, when the farm bill was being debated and the shutdown had yet to occur, Pryor had raised $89,750 from the crop production and basic processing industry, compared with $16,750 that went to his opponent.

Cotton’s biggest donor was Club for Growth, a Tea-Party aligned group, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political giving.

The shifting partisan allegiances, even if temporary, are significant because Republicans are seeking to capture a net of six seats in next year’s elections to regain a majority in the Senate. Holding their Georgia seat and defeating Pryor are vital components of their plan, both of which will be more difficult if a sizable number of the party’s corporate backers give both their money and their votes to Democrats.

Nunn’s race is among the marquee contests because it presents a rare opportunity for the Democrats to take away a seat from their partisan adversaries.
‘Known Quantity’

“It’s big, and Michelle Nunn is particularly well positioned because she’s already raised money from business for years for the Points of Light Foundation,” said Jennifer Duffy, Senate editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. “She’s a known quantity to them, which helps.”

Brook Hougesen, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, dismissed the importance of the donations.

“Any candidate is going to have a few CEOs supporting them,” she said. “It’s not an extraordinary amount of support she’s getting.”

Nunn is tapping her political pedigree as scion of a pro-business Democrat and those corporate ties from serving as president of the Points of Light volunteer group founded by former Republican President George H.W. Bush to solicit cash.

Jim Geiger, chairman of the Atlanta-based telecommunications company Cbeyond Inc. (CBEY) and a self-described lifelong Republican, said his support for Nunn is based on his prior charitable work with her and a desire to see a bipartisan cluster of Senators who understand business priorities.
Friendly Republicans

He’s hosting a fundraiser for Nunn later this year, and “since most of my friends, if not all of them, are Republicans, there will be a strong showing of Republican businessmen,” Geiger said.

Arthur Blank, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons and co-founder of Home Depot Inc. (HD), has given $5,200. Blank has cut checks for candidates from both parties, including $3,000 in 2010 for Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

Nunn drew attention to the votes her opponents cast against the bipartisan debt-limit measure during an Oct. 28 campaign stop. While visiting Fort Benning Army Base in Columbus, Georgia, she talked with defense workers about the impact of the shutdown. Afterward, she issued a statement decrying the effect on the state’s economy.

“Instead of playing political games that hurt Georgia families, Congress needs to take a pragmatic approach to solving our nation’s fiscal challenges and reining in spending,” Nunn said. “That’s what I’ll do as Georgia’s senator.”
Unique DNA

Jim Grien, the president of the investment bank TM Capital Corp. and Nunn’s campaign treasurer, said Nunn has “some very unique DNA” in politics and her family name raises her profile beyond those of the Republican House incumbents in the race.

Sam Nunn, 75, was chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and he built a reputation for breaking from his Democratic colleagues on tax increases and other issues. Her father also has worked with former Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar on nuclear nonproliferation, an endeavor that earned them Nobel Peace Prize nominations.

The Republican field in the race includes Representatives Paul Broun, Jack Kingston and Phil Gingrey, all of whom voted against bipartisan legislation that opened the government and prevented a default on the nation’s debt, now $17 trillion.

Also running is David Perdue, the former chief executive officer of Dollar General Corp. (DG) and the cousin of former Governor Sonny Perdue; and former Secretary of State Karen Handel, who resigned in 2012 as an executive at the Susan G. Komen foundation, a breast cancer charity, amid controversy over pulling funding from Planned Parenthood, which provides women’s health screenings and abortions.

Michelle Nunn, who joined the race in late July, raised $1.73 million by Sept. 30, bested only by Kingston, who has raised $3.35 million and Perdue, who has collected $1.81 million including a $500,000 personal loan and a $500,000 donation to his campaign.




Good riddance.  The Tea Party is nothing but a sham.  Full of racists and "small government" preachers who want nothing more than to regulate who can marry who, regulate women's bodies, and destroy the country that they claim to be fighting for.  Astroturfers, through and through.  Hopefully they bring the GOP down with them, and end this shameful age in American politics.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Mush4Brains]
    #19069943 - 11/01/13 01:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

We can only hope so. These lunatics want to return the US to a Theocratic vision of the 1950's that never existed except in their imaginations.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Le_Canard]
    #19070078 - 11/01/13 02:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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ToiletDuk said:
We can only hope so. These lunatics want to return the US to a Theocratic vision of the 1950's that never existed except in their imaginations.




Jeff Daniels nailed it.  "The American Taliban"



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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Mush4Brains] * 2
    #19070185 - 11/01/13 02:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Mush, I'm no fan of the Tea Party, but they did stress fiscal discipline which is very out of favor for 99.9% of the population.

Today we never feel any pain from accumulating massive debt and yearly deficits, so any notion of fiscal discipline makes no sense to the 99.9% who accepts the free lunch of more debt and no pain.

Anyone that studies economics knows there are no "free lunches" in the long term, but people don't know their economic history.  What do you think is going to happen when we hit $22 trillion in federal debt and we hit the financial debt wall?  It will be time to pay the piper, and it won't be fun for the majority of Americans.

It would be great to live beyond ones means for a whole lifetime, but that's not the real world, when does it come back to bite everyone?  No one knows, but it can't go on forever.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: qman]
    #19070247 - 11/01/13 02:40 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Mush, I'm no fan of the Tea Party, but they did stress fiscal discipline which is very out of favor for 99.9% of the population.




No, they stressed not paying our nation's financial obligations.  They stressed irresponsible financial decisions.  They stressed gutting regulations and imposing their own moral code on the rest of the country.  Cutting the deficit is good.  Reducing our debt, in theory, is good.  Conservatism has never worked on a macro scale, as far as I can tell, and they weren't even real conservatives.  They, singlehandedly, were the reason that America's AAA credit rating was lowered.

Dog-whistle racists using coded language to fire up an angry base, while being funded by some of the wealthiest people in the nation.

I don't care if you're a "Blue Dog," or a "RINO," but whatever helps shift our country back towards the center-left, and away from Reaganomics is a good thing.  Fuck the Tea Party, and every last person who associates with them.  Once again, I hope their bullshit destroys the political right in America. 

You say it is "great to live beyond one's means for a lifetime," yet, this is exactly what the boomer generation did, and now they have created an ideology to destroy what made them so successful.  Fuck them, and good riddance.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Mush4Brains] * 3
    #19070388 - 11/01/13 03:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The Tea Party, which is a fiction, is the only opposition to big government.  The Republicans aren't.  They just want a different big government.  Do you know why the Chamber of Commerce is opposed to the Tae Party guys?  They want to keep their corporate welfare.  Tell me again how much you love corporate welfare.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Mush4Brains] * 6
    #19071684 - 11/01/13 07:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You, of all people, I thought would respect politicians that aren't in the pocket of big business?  THAT is why they are losing some business support--they threaten the gravy train.

Some other points:

TEA stands for 'Taxed enough already'

1)  Please show evidence of 'racism' in the TEA party.  That is only what is spouted on the mainstream media.

2)  Their agenda has never been to create a theocratic state.  That again is what LIBERALS said, even though some are religious.  If there are people with strong religious beliefs that is so; however, Libertarians strongly believe in the segregation of church and state. 

3)  They NEVER wanted to not pay the countries debt.  They clearly stated that the debts would be paid.

You guys fall for the classic political trick of the opposing party and media defining the position of the other side.  Just because Obama and the Mainstream make a claim that doesn't mean it is true. 

Just because some members of a group have strong positions you can't apply that to the whole group.  That would be like saying every democrat is a lying cocksucker just because Obama is one.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: starfire_xes] * 1
    #19071698 - 11/01/13 07:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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That would be like saying every democrat is a lying cocksucker just because Obama is one.




They aren't?  Name one!


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: zappaisgod]
    #19071968 - 11/01/13 08:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Erwin Chemerinsky.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: Enlil] * 2
    #19074234 - 11/02/13 09:30 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Nope

"saying that even if an individual right to bear arms exists, the District of Columbia was justified in restricting that right because it believed that the law would lessen violence"

This is a lie.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: zappaisgod]
    #19074359 - 11/02/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The tea party is backed by the Koch Brothers. As Bill Hicks would say "everything they say is suspect and each word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink."


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    #19074363 - 11/02/13 10:03 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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    #19074378 - 11/02/13 10:07 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)



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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: B_BOY]
    #19074411 - 11/02/13 10:17 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I voted for Obama because I thought he would legalize marijuana haha.


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    #19074420 - 11/02/13 10:19 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

no you didn't did you?
you fell for one of his big lies huh?

he has did more to hurt marijuana than any other president in history.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: starfire_xes]
    #19074423 - 11/02/13 10:19 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

If McCain had won, there would be no tea party.  It is an astro turf organization invented by the Koch's and Glen Beck. 

The rubes in the movement are shills for The Big Boys who just don't like paying taxes at all.    The rubes are fueled by the unveiled racism, homophobia, hatred, and "i want my country back" hick mentality.

What we need is for the tea partiers and republicans to die off ... they are, just one funeral at a time.  Then we need a real progressive party to represent the Smart People.  The democratic party isn't liberal -- you fell for it, huh? -- they are right of the Reagan republicans of the 80's.

Don't ever think that anything you see on "the TV" is news.  There is no real news on tv anymore, just "corporate news".    If you insist on getting your information from there, then you probably just put a cork in it because you are just a parrot.  grawk!!  grawk!!


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: baldtim]
    #19074434 - 11/02/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)



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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: B_BOY]
    #19074482 - 11/02/13 10:29 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

He hasn't been as friendly to mj as we thought he would but I don't recall him ever saying that he was going to champion that cause to begin with.  Was one of his campaign promises to legalize weed in all 50 states?  No.  So, where is the big lie?  But more important, where do you get this stuff?    Are you retarded?

Also, he has not "did more" to hurt marijuana -- what does that even mean for god's sake???    He's into BSDM with plants?    How do you "hurt marijuana"... isn't smoking it pretty hurtful?   

Just head over to the day room and watch some tv until your meds kick in.


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: baldtim] * 1
    #19074490 - 11/02/13 10:32 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Like a typical Liberal you run from facts, did you read any of the article? No? Can you read? Do you have those glasses that hide facts from your eyes?  btw the Big Lie list is growing daily


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Re: Big Money is done with the Tea Party. [Re: B_BOY]
    #19074523 - 11/02/13 10:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Alex Jones swears up and down that Obama used a weather weapon on Edmund, Oklahoma.  So, get your umbrella, moron. 

Of course Mojo and RS are going to call out Obama for any continuation of drug policy...  He has not "did more" than any president to hurt marijuana (policy or plant).  That is ludicrous.

Did he shoot Vince Foster, too?    Is he muslin?  Oh, brother.  I almost can't comprehend your stupidity.


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