http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/grovernorquist/ en-us Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:29:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041620/posts If you knew that a recent Zogby International survey found 59 percent of the respondents described themselves as "fiscally conservative and socially liberal," and if you were a head of a political party wanting to put together a winning platform, what would you do?The question is not all that tough, but both Republican and Democrat leaders have yet to get it right. The Republicans, after losing three straight, off-year special congressional elections, are in a panic about what to do to renew their "brand." The Democrats naively think they are in great shape, even though they only have an... CATO Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041620/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:29:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025331/posts If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he’s managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren’t buying their makeover. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025331/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:57:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover. Last November, his crony Faisal M. Gill lost a bid for a seat in the Virginia state legislature. Now another protege, Kamal M. Nawash, has lost his third political race in seven years.... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020806/posts A former California Republican Party official's false-arrest lawsuit against U.S. immigration authorities has been thrown out of court. A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., ruled last month that immigration officers did nothing wrong when they jailed Michael Kamburowski, 35, on a deportation warrant in 2004, three years before he was hired as chief operating officer for the California GOP. Kamburowski, an Australian citizen, had sued in 2005, seeking $5 million damages from the government. The lawsuit was pending when state party chief Ron Nehring hired him in March 2007 to oversee the state party's finances, but party officials said they... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020806/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:39:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224773/posts Attention all prospective Republican lobbyists: K Street kingmaker Grover Norquist has announced his wedding date, so you’ll know when to send gifts. Problem is, the location and the gift registry are still up in the air. Norquist, 47, will exchange vows with 31-year-old Samah Alrayyes of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Saturday, April 2, 2005, he has revealed, although he told The Hill last week that he promised his bride-to-be the wedding will not turn into a political event. A source at USAID said Norquist joked that the couple should register at Costco. It makes sense, given... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224773/posts#comment Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:00:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973988/posts A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist..... Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who served briefly as chief operating officer of the state GOP, worked from 1995 to 2000 as a vice president of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C., an organization headed by Norquist - an architect of modern conservatism who has advised President Bush and top GOP political leaders. For Norquist, Kamburowski lobbied Congress on dozens of issues,... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973988/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963055/posts WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long aroused almost unanimous opposition from the leaders of the right. Accusing him of crimes against conservative orthodoxy like voting against a big tax cut and opposing a federal ban on same-sex marriage, conservative activists have agitated for months to thwart his Republican presidential primary campaign. That, however, was before he emerged this week as the party’s front-runner. Since his victory in the Florida primary, the growing possibility that Mr. McCain may carry the Republican banner in November is causing anguish to the right. Some, including James C. Dobson and Rush Limbaugh, say it... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963055/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951304/posts <p>Grover Norquist, president of the influential group Americans for Tax Reform told The Brody File today that while he has some reservations about Mike Huckabee's past record on taxes, he also is comfortable with Huckabee's present actions and thinks, "we should accept converts."  Read the quotes from him below.</p> CBNnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951304/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:41:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924043/posts Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has launched an attack on GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for Thompson's refusal to sign Norquist's pledge against raising taxes. Team Fred spokeswoman Karen Hanretty explained her candidate's position in an e-mail: Fred Thompson’s record of cutting taxes and pushing for reform speaks for itself. This is the approach he will take as president. He is bound by that principle and does not make a practice of signing pledges. That answer was not good enough for Grover the Security Pushover (more on that further down the column), who told Ronald Kessler of... Admiral's Chair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924043/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:28:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923365/posts Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has launched an attack on GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for Thompson's refusal to sign Norquist's pledge against raising taxes. Team Fred spokeswoman Karen Hanretty explained her candidate's position in an e-mail: Fred Thompson’s record of cutting taxes and pushing for reform speaks for itself. This is the approach he will take as president. He is bound by that principle and does not make a practice of signing pledges. That answer was not good enough for Grover the Security Pushover (more on that further down the column), who told Ronald Kessler of... Conscience of a Conservatarian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923365/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911770/posts It's pretty clear that Mitt Romney made a big mistake over the weekend when he told voters that he speaks for "the Republican wing of the Republican Party." Romney handed rivals Rudy Giuliani and John McCain the opportunity to remind GOP primary voters about the Old Romney, who was pro-abortion rights and courted gay voters when he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, then successfully for governor of Massachusetts. That's the Romney, who while debating Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994, proclaimed: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Of course the... RealClearPolitics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911770/posts#comment Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:19:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902151/posts Congressional Democrats are attempting to make a down-payment on HillaryCare 2.0. Every time Congress spends new money on a government program it adds to the bill that taxpayers must pay. The taxpayer is the “forgotten man” who never gets mentioned when Congress pats itself on the back for adding to the federal-spending leviathan. Such is the case once again this week on Capitol Hill. Going against their promises to be “new Democrats,” the Democrat congressional majority will attempt to raise taxes and spending, all to make a down-payment on HillaryCare 2.0. The socialized medicine bill they will pass this week... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902151/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890495/posts Beijing’s state-run Xinhua news service was quick to herald the latest lobbying effort on China’s behalf launched by the Club for Growth, a libertarian organization dedicated to electing public officials who agree with its free trade ideology. “More than 1,000 top American economists have signed a petition to urge Congress not to impose protectionist measures against China,” read the story filed by Xinhua from Washington on August 3. What the Club for Growth is protesting are two bills passed by the Senate Finance and Banking Committees seeking to pressure Beijing to cease its currency manipulation, a practice that gives producers... americaneconomicalert. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890495/posts#comment Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:37:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857666/posts THE GOP has a guy problem. Even after Veep Dick Cheney shot a friend in a hunting accident, he still hunts. In California, GOP biggies injure their comrades in a less ballistic manner. State party chairman Ron Nehring is under fire for handpicking an Australian immigrant -- who was ordered deported in 2001, was jailed on visa violations in 2004 and has filed a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security -- to be the party's chief operations officer. Under Nehring, the party also sought an H-1B visa so that a Canadian citizen could serve... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857666/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:32:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846122/posts WASHINGTON --The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group is set to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal and is cooperating with an FBI investigation into corruption involving Congress and the Bush administration, two people close to the case said Wednesday. Italia Federici served as a go-between for Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist, and J. Steven Griles, the deputy interior secretary during President Bush's first term, prosecutors said Wednesday in documents charging her with tax evasion and obstructing a Senate inquiry into the Abramoff scandal. Under a deal with the Justice Department, she must cooperate with authorities and is identifying... AP-San Luis Obispo Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846122/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805040/posts In a March 3 memo, the Senior Minority Counsel on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee outlines for Sen. John Glenn (Ohio) what he hopes will be the ranking Democrat's contribution to the Asiagate investigation — 11 subpoenas on conservative activist groups. The list, since forwarded to committee chairman Fred Thompson (R., Tenn.), reads like a "Who's Who" of the conservative movement, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Christian Coalition, and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. In mid March, Senate Republicans agreed to open the door to this potential harassment of their allies after a high-stakes battle over the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805040/posts#comment Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:40:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795026/posts Although there will no doubt be a winner in their straw poll of Republican presidential favorites for ’08, many participants at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington March 1-3 voiced to me dissatisfaction with the current field -- all of whom except John McCain addressed the conclave of 6,000-plus conservatives at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. “I haven’t given it much thought,” Jennifer Graf, who managed the winning anti-affirmative action initiative in Michigan last November, told me when I asked her favorite for the GOP in ’08. Similarly, Diane Schachterle, who works in the office of affirmative action foe... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795026/posts#comment Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790502/posts Christian Right Labors to Find ’08 Candidate WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn. The event was a meeting of the Council for National Policy, a secretive club whose few hundred members include Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Although little known outside the conservative movement, the council has become a pivotal stop for... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790502/posts#comment Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:47:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740771/posts -snip- But not all conservatives agree about the House Republicans. Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist thinks there has always been a functioning House majority for comprehensive immigration reform. So what happened last summer? "The radio talk-show hosts got out there and poisoned the atmosphere," says Norquist, who worries that being overly harsh on immigration contributed to the GOP's loss of Congress. -snip- Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740771/posts#comment Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737606/posts THE morning after the Republican drubbing in the midterm elections, Ken Mehlman, chairman of the party, headed to the weekly coalition meeting where limited government conservatives, Christian traditionalists and gun-rights groups gathered to plot strategy. He brought a message they were only too eager to hear. The election, he told the crowd at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform, was not a repudiation of conservatism. It was a mandate to ?recommit ourselves to being reform conservatives,? he said, telling them that the president would not flinch from arguing for ideas like privatizing Social Security. Recalling a line Woody Allen... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737606/posts#comment Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:40:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705176/posts WASHINGTON - Republican activists Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed landed more than 100 meetings inside the Bush White House, according to documents released Wednesday that provide the first official accounting of the access and influence the two presidential allies have enjoyed. The White House released the Secret Service visit records to settle a lawsuit by the Democratic Party and an ethics watchdog group seeking visitors logs for the two GOP strategists and others who emerged as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Earlier this month, the White House suggested to the judge in that lawsuit that such records need... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705176/posts#comment Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:03:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690039/posts Mr. Wayne LaPierre Executive Vice President National Rifle Association 11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax VA 22030-9400 Dear Mr. LaPierre: As an NRA member of many years, I was surprised and disturbed to learn that the NRA now has a Spanish language website (www.nraespanol.org). I thought the NRA stood for patriotism and the defense of our nation and our way of life. Why, then, are you encouraging the balkanization of our citizens into English-speaking and Spanish-speaking camps? If people were born in the United States, surely they would have learned enough English to use the main NRA website by the time... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690039/posts#comment Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686119/posts Grover Norquist: Conservative Exposed as Terrorist Sympathizer/Enabler Grover Norquist: Conservative Exposed as Terrorist Sympathizer/Enabler There's an incredible story brewing in Washington that is too hot for the networks to touch. Grover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who finance and support Islamic terrorism gain access to the Bush White House. Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements... Citizen Soldier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1686119/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1677524/posts First a disclaimer . . . I run a pro-Romney blogsite but do not get paid for it. I am a physician who blogs in my spare time and consider myself simply a vocal grassroots Romney supporter. ********************* Now on to the news at hand: This Examiner article has some interesting "insider information" for the 2008 GOP presidential race. To quote the start of the article: "Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Virginia Sen. George Allen are strong candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, although each has serious challenges to overcome. That’s the view of Grover Norquist, president of... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1677524/posts#comment Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677767/posts Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Virginia Sen. George Allen are strong candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, although each has serious challenges to overcome. That’s the view of Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and one of the most influential conservatives in Washington. “When I talk to each of the presidential candidates, every one of them brings up Romney — unsolicited — because they’re all focused on him as the smartest, toughest guy in the race,” Norquist told reporters Wednesday at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “He is very well thought of.” But... The (D.C.) Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677767/posts#comment Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:25:25 GMT