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As Republican infighting grows, donors call for calm
Associated Press ^ | July 6th, 2015 | By STEVE PEOPLES and JULIE BYKOWICZ

Posted on 07/06/2015 2:25:08 PM PDT by Mariner

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about "Republican on Republican violence," top party donors are taking action, with one firing off a letter calling for more civility and another seeking to block businessman Donald Trump from the debate stage altogether.

Foster Friess, a Wyoming-based investor and one of the party's top 20 donors in the last presidential contest, issued a letter to 16 White House prospects and the Republican National Committee late last week calling for candidates to stay on the "civility reservation."

"Our candidates will benefit if they all submit to Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment, 'Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican,'" Friess wrote in a copy of the letter sent to Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and obtained by The Associated Press.

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Calls for all other GOP candidates to boycott the Debates if Trump is there.

Trump will be there.

Who will be there with him?

1 posted on 07/06/2015 2:25:08 PM PDT by Mariner
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Trump must be silenced.


2 posted on 07/06/2015 2:26:19 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

You forgot your sarcasm tag


3 posted on 07/06/2015 2:27:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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Republicans fight... democrats are domesticated.. (Pets)..


4 posted on 07/06/2015 2:27:54 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Mariner

This disrupts the Chamber’s money, you know


5 posted on 07/06/2015 2:27:55 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: dragnet2

Trump will flame out in a matter of days.

His own fat mouth will effectively end his “candidacy”.


6 posted on 07/06/2015 2:28:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: dragnet2

They are going to p*ss Trump off. He is going to take his millions and run third-party. Jeb Bush is going to finish a distant third, and these donors are going to rue the day once the Democrats implement what is planned for them.


7 posted on 07/06/2015 2:29:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mariner

Another liberal POS using the quote of a man his ilk despise out of context to keep the reservation locked down.


8 posted on 07/06/2015 2:29:31 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Mariner

The people who are frantic at Trump for speaking the truth are those who are living a lie.


9 posted on 07/06/2015 2:29:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Foster Friess, a Wyoming-based investor and one of the party's top 20 donors in the last presidential contest, issued a letter to 16 White House prospects and the Republican National Committee

Read that sentence a couple of times, and ponder its meaning.

10 posted on 07/06/2015 2:29:53 PM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: Mariner

The Republican Party.

A man with a gun at his head yelling, “Stop or I’ll shoot.”


11 posted on 07/06/2015 2:29:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Trump will flame out in a matter of days."

I'd say the prospects are 50-50.

If his poll numbers keep going up it won't matter. And so far they are going up.

12 posted on 07/06/2015 2:30:06 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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The Cheap Labor Express is concerned that the natives are restless.

Vote for amnesty like good little sheeple, now...........


13 posted on 07/06/2015 2:31:51 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DoughtyOne

I like your analogy. I would add...

And Conservatives are going... “Eh. Go ahead and shoot.”


14 posted on 07/06/2015 2:32:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Mariner
They're looting the Food King!
15 posted on 07/06/2015 2:32:08 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Mariner

The Jeb big money guys are afraid Bush is really a Mexican and can’t hold his own in a real fight.


16 posted on 07/06/2015 2:32:16 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mariner
Oh boy, this should be good.


17 posted on 07/06/2015 2:32:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Mariner

Oh look. The oligarchs that run the GOP are about to take back control.

The Party is a joke.


18 posted on 07/06/2015 2:32:57 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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All that has to happen is that the RINO GOPers need to “reach across the aisle” and adopt the conservative agenda.

That will stop the infighting.

It shouldn’t be so hard. The RINOs have been reaching aross the aisle for years. They know how to do it.


19 posted on 07/06/2015 2:33:17 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Responsibility2nd
Yes they are.


20 posted on 07/06/2015 2:33:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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