The Club for Growth misrepresented what it would do and threatened to score the vote.
He is a former president of the Club for Growth, an influential small-government group.
On November 29, I resigned from the Leadership Council of the Club for Growth.
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Today, this is evident as the Club for Growth is attacking a proposed cut in loopholes, something that Republicans had accepted.
Despite this fact, in recent years, the Club for Growth stopped talking about economic growth and started emphasizing spending cuts.
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Since when has the Club for Growth favored static Beltway revenue analysis?
And, it was the Club for Growth that made Republican incumbents think twice before voting against the wishes of the people that elected them.
FORBES: Why I Resigned From The Leadership Council Of The Club For Growth
Unfortunately, in recent years, the Club for Growth has morphed into something very different than what it was when I joined it in 2000.
FORBES: Why I Resigned From The Leadership Council Of The Club For Growth
" Take a different line from the Club for Growth on pre-existing conditions (or any of its poorly vetted Senate candidates), and you are "the establishment.
The Club for Growth is filled with people that I like and admire, and the Club has been a powerful force for good over the years.
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Moreover, greens and conservative groups, such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Club for Growth and the Heritage Foundation, have lined up to give the Senate bill a kicking.
By shifting its focus from economic growth to spending cuts and balanced budgets, the Club for Growth has joined the chorus of clueless conservatives urging the Republicans to be nothing.
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America needs the Club for Growth, both as a champion of pro-growth policies, and as an instrument for holding conservatives accountable for their voting records after they get to Congress.
FORBES: Why I Resigned From The Leadership Council Of The Club For Growth
Two hundred Republican candidates and members of Congress have signed a pledge, promulgated by the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group, to repeal the legislation upon the party's return to power.
The Federal Election Commission sued and fined the Club for Growth's 527 for violating election laws by expressly advocating for the defeat of candidates in the 2004 election season.
Prior to the Iowa caucuses, the Club for Growth, a group that advocates conservative fiscal policies, ran negative ads directed at Huckabee highlighting the time he raised taxes while governor of Arkansas.
It was the Club for Growth that made the difference in getting the 2003 tax cuts enacted, by running ads in Ohio to persuade George Voinovich to vote for the plan in the Senate.
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"Congress should not allow the federal government to be involved in the flood insurance industry in the first place, let alone expand the national flood insurance program's authority, " the Club for Growth wrote on its website.
Speaking of which, Mr. Levin is one of those Senators who wrote the IRS demanding that it inspect the tax-exempt status of Americans for Tax Reform, the Club for Growth and other groups that are his ideological opponents.
The Club for Growth is a conservative group whose goals include making President Bush's tax cuts permanent, repealing the estate tax, cutting government spending and promoting free trade and tort reform not to mention deregulation in general.
"He's got to get really serious about budget control and really defend and enforce this budget if he's going to hold conservatives with him in the November elections, " said Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, a politically powerful conservative group.
"A lot of donors who were holding back are now going to feel free to give, " said David Keating, executive director of the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization and one of few Republican-friendly 527s that has been active this campaign.
There is just no getting around the reality that Boehner has some 60 Members in his Congressional caucus that are far more loyal to the Club For Growth or the various other Tea Party entities that fund these people than they could ever muster for John Boehner.
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Mr Specter faced a strong challenge in next year's Republican primary from Patrick Toomey, a fierce conservative who has been ahead of him in the polls by some 20 points, buoyed by white-hot Republican fury at the Obama administration and generously financed by the low-tax, minimal-government lobby, the Club for Growth.
Mr. STUART ROTHENBERG (The Rothenberg Political Report): The Club for Growth attacks, coming right at this time, this is really a crucial time for Huckabee, because as he's introducing himself, he can't afford for people who don't know anything about him for the first thing that they hear is he's for higher taxes.
The main Club for Growth is now a 501(c)4, and it also has another affiliated 501(c)4 called Club for Growth State Action.
It was easy to persuade me to join the then-tiny Club for Growth in 2000.
FORBES: Why I Resigned From The Leadership Council Of The Club For Growth
The anti-tax Club for Growth thinks so and is circulating this Internet video of then-Governor Huckabee in a 2003 speech to the Arkansas legislature.
They must be listening to those misfits in the Tea Party or that Club for Growth crowd.
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