Club for Growth
Posted at 7:02pm on Jun. 29, 2008 Club for Growth is not gunning for Governor Jindal
By Neil Stevens
Whilst the leftosphere borders on Civil War over the failure of Democratic leaders, Senator Obama included, to defeat the President's wishes on FISA and war funding, we on the right have had our own debate over our own rising star's first real conflict.
Yes, of course, I mean Governor Jindal and the legislative pay hike. Some on the right are up in arms, angry that given the opportunity to draw the line, gather the people behind him, and face down the intransigent legislators, he's turned it down, deciding it wasn't the fight to take.
Personally it doesn't bother me but then again, I'm not all that opposed to professional legislators, being an opponent of term limits as well. If all that Jindal had to trade off to get sweeping ethical reform in Louisiana, was a clean pay raise for the lowest paid legislators in the country, then I thought that was reasonable. So I was shocked to hear that there's actually a recall effort starting against the Governor.
Club for Growth was less shocked, though, and therein lay a controversy here at Red State.
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Posted at 6:59pm on Jun. 24, 2008 My Response to CfG's Response to My Response to Jeff Crouere's Piece
By Leon H Wolf
First, let me thank Nachama Soloveichik for penning a thoughtful response to my piece about Bobby Jindal from earlier today. I appreciate the work CfG does promoting and donating to conservative candidates and their contribution to conservative discussion in general is valuable.
My disagreements with Ms. Soloveichik are mainly quibbles, and may be disposed of with relative ease. First, my post was clearly directed to Jeff Crouere's Human Events piece, which I found to be clearly and absurdly over the top. I did reference and link to another post on The Next Right that was critical of CfG's coverage of the Veepstakes, but that was certainly not the point of my post. Insofar as I mentioned the CfG at all, it was to disapprove of this post from Andrew Roth (another guy I'm a fan of) that I found to be particularly ridiculous. So much so that I expect that Mr. Roth penned it at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek (although you never know, the internet is a poor communications medium in many respects). But it all goes to my larger point that we ought to show a little more perspective when dealing with possible national stars. Executives especially have a more difficult time maintaining ideological purity, and my sense is that Jindal and Palin are two of the better ones we have (although time will ultimately tell).
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Posted at 11:47am on Jun. 24, 2008 Burn the Witch
We can totally afford this kind of behavior right now.
By Leon H Wolf
Reasonable minds may disagree about the propriety of the pay raise that the Louisiana Legislature has decided that it needs. To my mind, $16K is a remarkably low salary for even part-time duties of that nature. By way of perspective, I used to live in a very small town in Alaska, and our city council members were paid $12,000 a year. This was 19 years ago. I understand that some people don't like the idea that Jindal appears to be giving a quid pro quo here - the raises for his ethics reforms - but it's hard for me to get very exercised about what the legislature is getting in return. It's especially small potatoes considering the need for serious ethics reform in Lousiana.
However, some conservative commentators, presumably fans of other Vice Presidential candidates have decided to flat-out beclown themselves over this issue. Apparently, Jindal's acquiescence in the legislative pay raises establish conclusively that he is a witch, and therefore must be burned.
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Posted at 10:37am on Jun. 17, 2008 RedState Radio: Senator Jim DeMint and the Senate Conservatives Fund
By Erick
This week I turned over the RedState podcast microphone to my good friend Andy Roth at the Club for Growth.
Andy interviewed Senator Jim DeMint about the Senator's new Senate Conservatives Fund. The SCF if dedicated to electing real conservatives to the United States Senate.
Both Andy and Senator DeMint are good friends of RedState and Senator DeMint has waged a good, hard fight for conservatives in the United States Senate. We should all support this effort.
Senator DeMint tells Andy what it's all about in the podcast.
or listen here:
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Posted at 4:54pm on Dec. 26, 2007 Is CFG playing right into Huckabee's hands?
By Alexham
Posted at 11:49am on Nov. 27, 2007 Huckabee Plays The Religion Card
A Losing Hand?
By California Yankee
Republican presidential wannabee Mike Huckabee has played his experience as a Southern Baptist minister and president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention into second place in Iowa polls.
Huckabee has moved from about 8 percent last summer, to 24 percent in a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey.
The Los Angeles Times reports Huckabee being backed by 44 percent of evangelical Protestants, who make up four in 10 Republican caucus goers. But the Times points out there are doubts about Huckabee:
Some conservatives are leery of his views on taxes, pointing to his Arkansas record.The Club for Growth, which advocates limited government and lower taxes, points out that as governor he increased taxes on sales, gasoline, cigarettes and nursing homes. He says he had little choice because of court-ordered spending increases or rising federal entitlement spending for programs "over which you don't have executive control."
That's an issue which was hammered home by conservative columnist By Robert Novak in an article titled, "The False Conservative:"
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