Thread: DONATIONS TO KARL ROVE’S GROUPS DROP 98% AFTER TARGETING TEA PARTY

DONATIONS TO KARL ROVE’S GROUPS DROP 98% AFTER TARGETING TEA PARTY

Posted by Joe For America on Feb 1, 2014 in Breaking Stories

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After wasting nearly $325 million during the 2012 election cycle with nothing to show for it and then declaring war on the Tea Party, donations to Karl Rove’s three Crossroads groups decreased by 98% last year. The groups reportedly raised a paltry $6.1 million combined in 2013.

Rove runs Crossroads GPS, American Crossroads, and the Conservative Victory Project Super PAC, which was formed this year to wage war against conservatives. Rove’s two groups raised $325 million in 2012 and about $70 million in 2010. As Politico notes, though, “Rove added a third group to the network in 2013, forming the Conservative Victory Project to counterbalance the influence of Tea Party and conservative grassroots forces in GOP primaries.”

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The GOP and Losers like Karl "Man Boobs" Rove still dont understand what is going on... the Tea Party has grown and it is Firing Everyone that's worthless... doesn't matter if they are a Democrat or a Republican ... sorry asses need to work at a McDonalds check out window; not making 6 figures to attack the people that put their broke ass into power

the Democrats and GOP have No Idea what they have done; what they themselves created by corruption... "Yet"

look for a massive boycott of any businesses that advertises through the National and Local Chamber of Commerce ... its coming. The Black Community needs to get on board with this one

Joe the Plumber
Very happy to see this... Rove and his buddies just want us to go away... I have a better idea Karl, why don't you go away. Send your money to individual candidates, not the Party or the establishment PACs.

senateconservatives.com

Senate Conservatives Fund is a political action committee dedicated to electing true conservatives to the United States Senate.

Wooooo Hooooo

DONATIONS TO KARL ROVE'S GROUPS DROP 98% AFTER TARGETING TEA PARTY



by TONY LEE 1 Feb 2014, 11:59 AM PDT 773 POST A COMMENT
After wasting nearly $325 million during the 2012 election cycle with nothing to show for it and then declaring war on the Tea Party, donations to Karl Rove's three Crossroads groups decreased by 98% last year. The groups reportedly raised a paltry $6.1 million combined in 2013.

Rove runs Crossroads GPS, American Crossroads, and the Conservative Victory Project Super PAC, which was formed this year to wage war against conservatives. Rove's two groups raised $325 million in 2012 and about $70 million in 2010. As Politico notes, though, "Rove added a third group to the network in 2013, forming the Conservative Victory Project to counterbalance the influence of Tea Party and conservative grassroots forces in GOP primaries."
Since then, as Breitbart News reported, "Rove’s organization has been so tarnished among the conservative base that candidates fear donors will not contribute to any group associated with him." Aware of this, Rove's Crossroads network has reloaded with groups that share donors but are technically not affiliated on paper with them.
All three of the groups "are permitted to accept unlimited corporate and individual contributions," and donations to Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit, are even tax deductible.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...r-on-Tea-Party

Don't fool yourself. Karl Rove is driven by one thing - $ GREED $.

We are occupied by over 20 million illegal aliens from Mexico thanks to Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

Karl Rove and the corporate corruption he represents are the very same traitors today as he was the day he endoresed LaRaza publicly and openly.

CORPORATIONS + LA RAZA = OPEN BORDERS? - Big Corporations, Karl Rove Openly Pander To LaRaza




Included in the video are:

* Corporate sponsors of the event pitching to the Hispanic audience.
* Excerpts from Karl Rove, White House strategist on the Administration's Immigration reform policy.
* Reaction from a sampling of attendees representing Latino and migrant rights organizations.
* Video clips interviews with the Nativo Lopez, president of MAPA a prominent retired Hispanic law enforcement official. L. A. County Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar.

"Border security is simply IMPOSSIBLE . . without reducing the pressure on the border. As the president likes to say, "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." If you can make fifty cents an hour in Mexico and ten bucks an hour in the United States and you want to feed your family, you're coming to the United States every time ."

Karl Rove speaking to LaRaza, July, 2006

Fund-Raising by G.O.P. Rebels Outpaces Party Establishment

By NICHOLAS CONFESSOREFEB. 1, 2014

Meanwhile, insurgent conservative groups like the Tea Party Patriots — emboldened by activists’ fury over compromises that Republican leaders have struck with Democrats on federal spending — now have formidable amounts of cash to augment their grass-roots muscle.

Insurgent conservatives seeking to pull the Republican Party to the right raised more money last year than the groups controlled by the party establishment, whose bulging bank accounts and ties to major donors have been their most potent advantage in the running struggle over the party’s future, according to new campaign disclosures and interviews with officials.

The shift in fortunes among the largest and most influential outside political groups, revealed in campaign filings made public late Friday, could have an enormous impact on the 2014 election cycle. The warring Republican factions are preparing to square off in a series of Senate and House primaries around the country as Republican leaders seek to rein in activists who they believe have fractured and endangered the party with policies that alienate independent-leaning voters.

Groups representing the party establishment, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, are struggling to bring in the level of cash they raised in 2012, when Crossroads spent more than $300 million in a failed effort to defeat President Obama and retake the Senate, leaving donors grumbling that their dollars had been wasted.

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Karl Rove, the founder of Crossroads, in 2012. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Meanwhile, insurgent conservative groups like the Tea Party Patriots — emboldened by activists’ fury over compromises that Republican leaders have struck with Democrats on federal spending — now have formidable amounts of cash to augment their grass-roots muscle.

The money will go to television ads, direct mail and on-the-ground organizing in states like Mississippi, Alaska and South Carolina, where conservative and Tea Party-affiliated candidates are challenging incumbents or business-backed candidates.

Jenny Beth Martin, president of the Tea Party Patriots, said the increased fund-raising would allow the group to expand the number of races it could be active in and finance more sophisticated and data-driven voter outreach.

“Not just the amount of money, but the volume of donations and how many people are so active and engaged in our organization — those two things combined will allow us to get involved in more races,” Ms. Martin said.

The battles are being watched closely, especially in Kentucky, where the Senate Conservatives Fund and other conservative groups are backing a primary challenge to Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader and one of the most powerful Republican leaders in Washington.
No such division exists in the Democratic Party, where outside groups are successfully recruiting new donors and collaborating on big races. Two “super PACs” that are focused on helping Democrats in Congress announced record fund-raising on Friday, pulling in a total of $16.4 million — twice their total in 2011, the last comparable year.

The drop in establishment Republican fund-raising is also empowering other conservative factions, particularly the political and philanthropic network overseen by the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. Americans for Prosperity, the free-market advocacy group founded by David Koch, has become by far the biggest single spender on early-campaign issue advertisements against Democratic incumbents. Since October, it has spent more than $23 million, chiefly on attacks against Democrats for supporting Mr. Obama’s health care law.

That spree underscores the shifting balance of power within the party. During the 2012 campaign, Republican leaders counted on Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, the nonprofit arm of Mr. Rove’s group, to soften up Democratic candidates by financing issue ads in the early campaign season. Now that job is falling largely to Americans for Prosperity, which has been critical of Republican leaders’ strategy on issues like the debt ceiling.

“The model that we have been building for the past eight years — a state-based organization with a supportive home office but a permanent infrastructure on the ground, with real troops, and with real support behind it — is one that our supporters believe in,” said Levi Russell, a spokesman for Americans for Prosperity.

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David Koch, the founder of Americans for Prosperity, last year. Mr. Rove’s group has lost some of its influence; Mr. Koch’s has gained it. Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press Four Republican-leaning groups with close ties to the party’s leadership in Congress — Crossroads and its super PAC affiliate; the Congressional Leadership Fund; and Young Guns Action Fund — raised a combined $7.7 million in 2013. By contrast, four conservative organizations that have battled Republican candidates deemed too moderate or too yielding on spending issues — FreedomWorks, the Club for Growth Action Fund, the Senate Conservatives Fund, and the Tea Party Patriots — raised a total of $20 million in 2013, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed on Friday.

“This is by far the biggest nonelection year we’ve ever had,” said Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which has feuded with party organizations. “It shows how committed people are to electing true conservatives and to advancing conservative principles.”

The emerging money gap is likely to put enormous pressure on deep-pocketed business groups to ante up, dragging historically cautious Beltway trade associations more fully into treacherous factional battles among their Republican allies.

Because some of the biggest groups are not required to report their fund-raising to the Federal Election Commission and did not volunteer the information, the figures do not include some major spenders on both sides, including Americans for Prosperity, and the American Action Network, which focused on House races and is affiliated with the Congressional Leadership Fund.
And the party-oriented organizations, which remain geared toward helping Republicans win general elections, raise most of their revenue later in the election cycle.

“Our pledges are on track with previous cycles, and we are increasingly enthusiastic about prospects for winning a majority in the Senate and holding the majority in the House,” said Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for Crossroads.

Moreover, major trade associations with ties to the Republican establishment have signaled they will spend heavily in this year’s election cycle, in part to help elevate candidates who can perform strongly in matchups against Democrats. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, traditionally one of the biggest players in campaigns, is forecasting that it will spend about $50 million on a mix of general election and primary races.

Yet there are signs that some of the establishment-oriented groups are being careful with cash. American Crossroads, the American Action Network and the Young Guns Action Fund announced a joint $1.2 million ad campaign in the special election for a congressional seat in Florida, suggesting that they were taking care to pool their spending to achieve greater impact.

Some of the decline in fund-raising by major Republican groups is also being driven by the fragmentation of the party’s outside spending infrastructure. Mr. Rove’s battles with rebellious conservatives have drawn enough controversy that some candidates decline to be openly associated with Crossroads. Instead, they are backed by smaller groups, often founded by the candidates’ donors and former aides, that focus on a single race.

Such groups, in states like Texas, Louisiana, Alaska and North Carolina, have raised about $5 million among them, easing some of the gap with conservative groups.
“We still see ourselves as the serious underdogs,” Mr. Hoskins said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us...s&pgtype=Blogs

KARL ROVE'S CROSSROADS RELOADING AGAINST TEA PARTY




by TONY LEE
26 Dec 2013

Even though Karl Rove's American Crossroads brand has been damaged after the group declared war against conservative candidates, the group will reportedly try to influence the 2014 midterm elections by bullying campaigns and creating groups that, on the surface, do not seem to be affiliated with them.

According to the New York Times, Crossroads "appears to be testing" its "new approach" in Kentucky. The Conservative Victory Project, the group formed to take on conservative candidates, has stayed out of Kentucky's Senate primary between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin.

Instead, a group called "Kentuckians for Strong Leadership" is curiously backing McConnell while getting most of its cash from Crossroads donors. It is "legally separate from Crossroads;" but Stephen Law, the president of Crossroads, sits on its board, and the two groups share a treasurer.

Crossroads may set up "similar groups in races in which its brand may be less appealing to voters or donors." The Times notes that this is an approach Crossroads may have to take because Rove's organization has been so tarnished among the conservative base that candidates fear donors will not contribute to any group associated with him.

In other races, Crossroads has been threatening Senate candidates, saying the group and its affiliates will not support them if they accept support from other super PACs. According to the Times, Law warned a Republican West Virginia Senate candidate (Rep. Shelly Moore Capito) that if her campaign formed its own super PAC, Crossroads would not offer it support.

Other Republicans said they were "unwilling to let Mr. Rove and his colleagues decide which Senate candidates get the most support." "You don’t want someone playing God above you saying, 'You don’t need any more money in your race. You can win by a few less points,'" a Republican told the Times.

Crossroads and its affiliated groups spent nearly $450 million during the 2012 election cycle with no wins to show for it. Law said the group had good financial controls in place so that its money is not wasted.


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Mark Levin

Rove dive

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