Another case of Republicans eating their young.

[sybylla]

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=69078

GOP state rep irked by party aid to foe
By Anita Weier
Republican state Rep. Terri McCormick has learned to her dismay that the state Republican Party allowed the National Republican Congressional Committee to send financial support to Assembly Speaker John Gard for the 8th Congressional District seat before the primary election.

The usual tradition is to wait until after the voters have selected a candidate.

"I had phoned the NRCC for weeks trying to get a meeting with them. I still am unclear about what was decided and why," said McCormick, of Appleton, who learned about the party's action from a Gannett reporter who called her from Washington, D.C.

"The voters should speak first instead of political insiders."

Rick Wiley, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, confirmed that the state party authorized the RNCC to provide resources for Gard for the primary election. The Wisconsin party did not endorse Gard, he said. It responded to a request to grant permission to the national organization.

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Let's see. The state party did not endorse Gard but okayed the transfer of pac money in support of one candidate. Yet, in politics, money = speech. Sounds like a defacto endorsement to me. And apparently it does to McCormick, too.

It's just like those neocon fools to throw good money after bad as long as it goes to the right bedfellows. Makes you wonder what they got on Gard that they want to keep him in Madison, er, Sun Prairie, to be their lapdog.

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1. Just business as usual.

I was surprised at how many lobbyists give to both candidates even crossing party lines.