Club for Growth Spends Big for Calvey
Club for Growth, the Washington-based group that advocates for limited government, has made nearly $149,000 in expenditures from its political action committee in the last few days for Kevin Calvey in the GOP runoff for the 5th District congressional seat, federal election commission records show.
The Club’s PAC spent nearly $87,000 to buy air time for a pro-Calvey ad and the rest on television ad production and mailing costs.
That brings the total of Club for Growth PAC spending on Calvey to $160,162 since the July 27 primary, won by James Lankford. The runoff between Calvey and Lankford is on Aug. 24.
The recent expenditures by the PAC are on top of the tens of thousands of dollars Calvey has received from Club for Growth members in direct campaign donations since last year, when the club endorsed Calvey’s candidacy.
Calvey already had a huge financial advantage over Lankford before Club for Growth PAC lent its help this week.
Lankford was outspent by Calvey and state Rep. Mike Thompson in the primary but still beat them both.
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Chris- then you must think Coburn is “bought” also? Coburn is endorsed and funded by Club for Growth also – Club for Growth promotes free market principles – that is ok by me if Calvey votes that way!
Club for Growth funded and started the tea party movement with the intention of scaring and angering people with lies, half-truths and deception. Their ultimate goal was to ease the tea parties into voting republican.
CFG did succeed, however they have severely hurt the GOP; tea party candidates have captured republican primaries. You can’t win the majority in the senate when 3 senate races that were GOP gimmes (KY, NV and FL) are now toss-ups or leaning democrat because the republican candidates in those races are radical wackos. A potential republican landslide election has been severely marginalized by the efforts of the CFG and tea parties.
The CFG is a radical group that wants to get rid of medicare, social security and the department of education to name a few. They want to allow the Wall Street Casino to remain open and continue financial deregulation without consumer protections. They support tax cuts for companies who ship American jobs overseas and use offshore tax havens. They fought to privatize social security. If they won that fight, can you imagine what would of happened to millions of American senior citizens’ social security benefits when the greedy investment bankers who took down the stock market in 2007 and started the Great Recession?
These are the people supporting Calvey. In turn, Calvey is embracing their cash and he is embracing their agenda.
Here’s a link to the attack postcard/ad sent to District 5 Republicans from Calvey’s campaign:
http://www.edmondsun.com/local/x1912410390/Campaign-postcard-misleads
The postcard grossly takes Mr. Lankford’s comments out of context and spins them to Mr. Calvey’s own purposes. His postcard purports James Lankford as “…went negative” on March 9. Isn’t this a bad case of the pot calling the kettle black?
Calvey is already bought by a PAC in Washington. We already know who he’ll be voting for in DC and it won’t be the people of the 5th district. Hopefully the Club for Growth wastes a ton of money when he loses to Lankford