"Tea Party's Senate Meddling Agitates Republican Campaign Committee (UPDATE)"

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Tea Party's Senate Meddling Agitates Republican Campaign Committee (UPDATE)

by Sam Stein and Paul Blumenthal at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/tea-party-senate_n_4214100.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Tired of watching outside groups meddling in Republican primaries, the group tasked with electing Republicans to the Senate threw a sharp jab Friday.

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign announced that it was ending its business dealings with Jamestown Associates as punishment for that firm’s work for the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group that’s propelled tea party challengers against incumbent candidates. Not only that, the committee is also encouraging 2014 Senate candidates, the RNC and other committees to drop their associations with Jamestown as well.

The message is fairly explicit: If you are profiting off Republican Party infighting, you aren’t going to get any money from the NRSC. But how ironclad is this principle?

A review of campaign finance data shows that if a new policy has been put in place, it’s being applied ad hoc. Jamestown actually hadn’t worked for the NRSC for the current 2014 election cycle prior to being told that it will not get any contracts from the campaign committee, so it won’t be losing any existing contracts.




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[BlueStreak]

1. Neither party has much control anymore

Let s not forget that in the last 2 Presidential campaigns, the Democratic party was entirely irrelevant. The Obama campaign was completely separate from the Party. They made no effort to support party candidates. They did their own fund raising. They did their own campaigning.

And with Citizen's United, the big money isn't flowing through the Republican Party anymore. It is PACs going straight to the candidates.

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2. Good points. Someone else said it in an article last week. That there is so much

money available to any GOP up and comer, that the party is no longer a gate-keeper. It used to be the only show in town.

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3. ah the motherfuckers are chewing on eachother

delightful!!!