Website Asks for Pledges to Support Primary Opponents to Senate Republican Leaders and to Cut Off Financial Support to GOP Committees if Amnesty Passe

Mon Jun 25, 8:01 PM ET




To: POLITICAL EDITORS


Contact: Vi Shields of ConservativesBetrayed.com, +1-703-392-7676 or +1-703-906-6542


MANASSAS, Va., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new website sponsored by Richard A. Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books, 2006), is seeking pledges to support primary challengers for Republican Senators who vote for cloture on the Bush Amnesty Bill and primary challengers for Senate Republican leaders if amnesty for illegal aliens is enacted.


NoBushAmnesty.com also urges conservatives to cut off financial support for all national GOP committees if immigration legislation passes that contains any form of amnesty.


"If the Bush Amnesty Bill passes, conservatives will place the blame right where it belongs--on the Republican Party," Viguerie said.


He noted that Republican grassroots fundraising is down dramatically from previous years.


"If Bush's Amnesty Bill passes, Republican members of Congress and GOP committees can forget about going to the grassroots for money," Viguerie said.


"Even Republican Senators on the long end of a six-year term who vote for cloture will find primary opponents waiting for them. They are greatly mistaken if they think the cloture vote for the Bush Amnesty Bill will be forgotten," he said.


Contact: Vi Shields, (703) 392-7676 or (703) 906-6542


SOURCE ConservativesBetrayed.com

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