When will everyone finally figure out what a fraud Grover Norquist is. Anyone with enough money can buy and pay for him. He has become a shill for Islam because he married a Muslim. He has long been an open borders advocate, and he sneers at the rule of law.
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ACU puts conservatism up for sale?
posted at 11:36 am on July 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Excerpt:
When we said that conservatives needed to do a better job selling the philosophy of limited government and fiscal responsibility, this isn’t exactly what we meant.
According to Politico, the American Conservative Union attempted to get Federal Express to pay millions of dollars to engage the ACU on their behalf over a political fight with UPS on legislation under consideration on Capitol Hill.
The ACU’s executive vice-president Dennis Whitfield told FedEx that the ACU stood foursquare against the bill, which would have made it easier for unions to organize at individual FedEx facilities. When FedEx took a pass on the offer, the ACU reversed itself and aligned with UPS instead:
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The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million+, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and / or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx that was provided to POLITICO. …
In the three-page letter asking for money on June 30, the conservative group backed FedEx. Rebuffed, the group signed onto a two-page July 15 letter backing UPS.
FedEx and UPS, fierce competitors in the package delivery business, are at war over a provision under consideration in Congress that would expand union power at FedEx.
FedEx currently has one U.S. union contract for its entire express business. Under a change passed by the House and awaiting action in the Senate, FedEx — like UPS — would have to negotiate union contracts for individual locations, which FedEx claims would make it much more difficult to promise worldwide regularity for deliveries.
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The ACU sponsors the largest annual gathering of conservative activists in the nation, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). I’ve attended three times, and it serves as both a social support and a strategic-planning forum for activists on the Right. That’s the kind of salesmanship we need for conservative values.
If Politico has this right, and they have the letter on their website, this is exactly what we don’t need. Their offer in writing contains nothing but their support for the fight against this bill. The ACU’s eventual public position — that FedEx has been “misleading the public and legislators” — only came after FedEx refused to pay the ACU over $2 million for their services.
That looks a lot less like a principled position, and a lot more like sour grapes, or the business end of an extortion attempt. Someone has misled the public in this instance, and it doesn’t appear to be either FedEx or UPS.
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Rest of piece here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/17/acu-puts-conservatism-up-for-sale/