My high school neighbor GOPer Chris Chocola and Club for Growth look to bring down Specter

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Is the Club for Growth in effect looking to help Joe Sestak in his primary battle against Specter? Maybe not, but they might do that if they start trying to draining Specter of his campaign funds. They probably figure that Sestak doesn't have the following or funds to win a state-wide battle. That's where DU, Moveon, etc. should step up and fill the gap, and make their strategy work against them...

http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/15453.html

Here's an article on the newer head of Club for Growth, Chris Chocola, and his focus on bringing down Specter by forcing his campaign to refund its contributors and draining Specter of campaign money...

http://www.howeypolitics.com/2009/06/17/jack-colwell-chocolas-gop/

Jack Colwell: Chocola’s GOP

By JACK COLWELL

WASHINGTON _ Although Chris Chocola isn’t in Congress anymore, he’s here in the fight for a Republican Congress - his brand of Republican.


Chris Chocola (right) talks with Jack Colwell following a 2002 debate in Rochester. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey)

Chocola, the Elkhart County Republican who represented Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District for two terms before losing to Democrat Joe Donnelly in 2006, now is president of the Club for Growth, a conservative group that targets Republicans it regards as too wishy-washy moderate on taxation and government expansion.

He is in the fight for the soul of the GOP. “I never thought I’d be doing the weekly commute again, raising funds again,” Chocola says during an interview in his Club for Growth office. It’s larger and plusher than his old congressional office.

“But I still have a great concern for what’s going on,” he says.
And he doesn’t like what’s going on - Republicans losing control of Congress and the White House and now wrangling in what Chocola calls a misleading “big tent versus purists” debate.

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I used to do yardwork with Chocola when I was a neighbor of his in Michigan, and his uncle was also my dad's boss in the same neighborhood... His family had a black dog named "Onyx", which brings back memories of a certain film named "The Omen" from that time period... :)

It looks like the Club for Growth isn't stopping its efforts against Specter, even though he's pulled out of the Republican Party now and running in 2010 as a Democrat.

http://www.newsmax.com/politics/specter_toomey_race/2009/06/26/229289.html

We should be conscious of this group's efforts and make them work against themselves and get Sestak voted in as senator. No more "Lieberman-style" end arounds this time!! Let's really do a progressive overhaul here!

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1. Toomey's got a tough row to hoe.

Pennsylvania doesn't cotton to free-trade ideology, and he's a true believer.

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2. I think Specter eventually announces

he's not running for reelection.

I don't think he has a chance to win the primary or the general.

He should have just retired.