Posted on 01/23/2015 1:18:13 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is adding a veteran GOP strategist and Iowa expert to his political team as the Wisconsin Republican considers a possible 2016 presidential bid.
The addition of David Polyansky gives Walker's team a big dose of Iowa experience. The strategist helped engineer former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's win in the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses and also served as deputy campaign manager for former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who won the 2011 Iowa straw poll.
(Excerpt) Read more at wqad.com ...
"Austin --- Some of Texas' biggest trade groups are moving to counter tea party and anti-government forces that have dominated recent Republican primaries.
The Texas Future Business Alliance --- a mix of 10 major business groups, including the chemical industry, bankers, builders and contractors --- is sending out mailers and providing other support on behalf of GOP candidates who have supported water infrastructure development, highway construction and education spending.
Many of the incumbents have been pillories as big government spenders and liberals by fiscal hawk groups.
The movement mirrors the schism happening nationally between hard right and establishment Republicans. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently pledged $50 million to back pro-business Republicans in U.S. Senate primaries and fight tea party insurgents. Republicans leaders, such as House Speaker John Boehner, have castigates hard right groups, accusing them of wanting contributions more than solutions.
"It's part of the same trend you're seeing nationally. A lot of the business community is tired of people who don't want to govern," said a person involved in the Texas Future Business Alliance, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The group isn't talking about its efforts. Spokesman David Polyansky, who has worked on campaigns for Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee, said the business alliance aims to "recognize leaders dedicated to keeping Texas as the best state in the nation for business development and job growth.
Insiders won't say how much they are investing, but they describe it as the first major stirrings of business interests in GOP primaries. The first public report on its political spending won't be available until mid-January.
Slammed as moneyed.
Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of the fiscal-hawk group Empower Texans, said the Texas Future Business Alliance is nothing but a group of big-money interests wanting taxpayers dollars to flow into their pockets.
He described the consortium as a "fake group" of large trade associations masquerading as a grass-roots organization and sending out leaflets that give incumbents "A Rated" report cards.
"This is what we've come to expect coming out of Washington, anti-Ted Cruz movement," Sullivan said. "They want people who will vote for cronyism and corporate welfare." ..."
Texas business groups ally to counter tea party influence in GOP primaries
1/4/2014
And Reagan had John Sears (Nixon guy) in ‘76. These guys are hired guns. They provide advice regarding emphasis and strategy, and not typically positions.
If what the article says is true, Scott Walker would be the last GOP primary candidate to be taken seriously on that.
If what the article says is true, Scott Walker would be the last GOP primary candidate to be taken seriously on that.
i would hope that political policy positions come from the candidates values, logic and experience ...
...but I am not that naive.
What do you think about what the article says concerning the Texas Future Business Alliance (along with the issues surrounding it), who the article says was the spokesman, and what the president of the fiscal-hawk group had to say about them and Ted Cruz?
Palin makes people I really don't like go ape sh!t. But I don't think she will run. Cruz gets a wide range of people honked off. Walker did a nice job of causing the union left go crazy. The only people Romney made mad were conservatives, and I like them.
Is the person being “hired” by Scott Walker pro-Tea Party?
Same advisor also worked on the Joni Ernst campaign.
“”It’s part of the same trend you’re seeing nationally. A lot of the business community is tired of people who don’t want to govern,”...”
What he H*LL does that mean?! I’m tired of being OVER-GOVERNED & so should he. Unless he’s just a crony capitalist who can’t wait to get special treatment from his GOP-e friends.
Walker’s right. It’s a big tent and it’s stupid to shoot ourselves in the foot. We’re a minority.
Why is the Tea-Party viewed as anti-business? What’s their definition? If it’s crony capitalism, then they’re right.
We should be pro-commerce, but neutral as to who gains or who loses. Competition is a near cure-all for what ails us. America was designed to be a giant free trade zone.
It’s only in a free market that consumers are kings.
I know a bit about Walker. He doesn’t have a college degree, but rose, through skill and acumen to the highest office in his state. He was elected 3 times in four years. He prays on his knees every day. He married his wife who is 12 years his senior. They’re down to earth people. He’d be Reagan’s VP choice if Ronald were running today.
Don’t be afraid. He is a true and tried conservative. He’s actually accomplished a great deal in a state that’s pretty far left.
"It is not only most prudent then, but absolutely necessary…to give the people a legal, constitutional, and peaceable mode of changing [their] rulers, whenever they discover improper principles or dispositions in them. - John Adams
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