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Tag Archives: Club for Growth
A Preemptive and False Attack in Wisconsin
A conservative group falsely paints former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson as a "champion of Obamacare." In fact, Thompson criticized the new health care law at the time of its passage, calling it "the beginning of a government-controlled health care system." Lately, he has called for it to be "repealed, replaced …
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Tagged Club for Growth, health reform, Mark Neumann, taxes, Tommy Thompson
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Did Lugar ‘Bail Out’ NYC?
Club for Growth exaggerates when it claims Sen. Richard Lugar voted to bail out New York City "back in the 1970s" at a cost of $9.4 billion. Lugar was mayor of Indianapolis when Congress passed the famous 1975 New York City bailout. He did vote for a 1978 bill that …
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Toss-ups: Pennsylvania Cash Attack
Two independent groups are spending heavily in the Pennsylvania Senate race, and we find both are airing TV ads that go a bit too far: VoteVets.org, a left-leaning veterans group, is up with an ad that claims Republican Pat Toomey supports letting Wall Street …
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Tagged bank bailout, Cash Attack, Club for Growth, Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey, stimulus, votevets
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Republican Infighting on Health Insurance
Never shy about training its sights on fellow Republicans, the Club for Growth is going after Utah GOP Sen. Robert Bennett with a new television ad and letter-writing campaign targeting his support for a Senate health care bill. It’s not a Senate bill that has cleared any committee, such as …
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Tagged Club for Growth, health care, health insurance, Robert Bennett
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