FreedomWorks pledges to spend half a million dollars to elect Jordan as Speaker
Source: The Hill
Conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks on Thursday pledged to spend at least half a million dollars on a campaign to elect Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as House Speaker.
The group made the announcement shortly after Jordan officially announced his bid for the gavel on Thursday.
"FreedomWorks, along with conservatives across the country today, applaud Rep. Jordans announcement that he will run for Speaker," FreedomWorks president Adam Brandon said."Jordan will ensure that House Republicans finally make good on the promises they have made for years on the campaign trail - to balance the budget and hold bureaucratic agencies accountable."
FreedomWorks launched a grassroots campaign to rile up support for Jordan's bid in April, months before his announcement. Over the past few months, Brandon claimed, the FreedomWorks volunteers have "sent more than 75,000 phone calls, tweets, and letters to their representatives" in support of Jordan's run for Speaker.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/399024-freedomworks-pledges-to-spend-half-a-million-dollars-to-elect-jordan-as
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louis c
(8,652 posts)...doesn't the Speaker of the House usually come from the majority party?
I fully expect that party to the Democratic Party in 2019, the next time there's a Speaker's vote.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Party of (R] Russia now.
Whenever we talk to a repuke we should say, youre the party of Russia now right?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Or is the office now simply sold to the highest bidder?
riversedge
(69,727 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)in exchange, the the GOP candidate wins, he/she is expected to support Jordan. And yes, the GOP is for sale to the highest bidder.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Why didnt he stand up and report this unless he was involved himself in the predatory behavior?
TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)MFM008
(19,782 posts)Not them.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)"Free all the capitalists!"
George II
(67,782 posts)OregonBlue
(7,744 posts)disgusting lot.
jayschool2013
(2,309 posts)Their backup plan is the rotting corpse of Joe Paterno.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)And why is he announcing anything anyway as the BLUE WAVE is coming in November and Pelosi will be the Leader of the House again.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Whoever lives in his area MUST do this. It works. Make him the most hated and miserable Nazi on Earth. They did it to Fuckubee Sanders, Neilsen, McConnell(twice) and Stephen Miller and it worked. Be ready to go after him, and all the GOP traitors, until their "vacation" is anything but relaxing. Hold them up and make an example of them and what happens when their personal, greedy, harmful agenda hurts the real citizens who are fair, caring, hard working and are getting screwed by them. RESIST! REMOVE! Peace.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)markses66
(94 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)WTF "grassroots campaign" are they talking about?
The Speaker position is voted for by Congress members, not by the general public. Unless outside of these "75,000 letters" to reps (i.e., "junk mail" ), I suppose they are talking about "buying" votes from other GOP members, which is bribery.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)marble falls
(56,359 posts)resigning before long.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)It's not just the NRA that so conveniently got to stop (maybe erase past records too) revealing their donor records to the IRS.
It's also a huge amount of these ""social welfare" organizations funded by the Koch Bros, the historic architects of this over throw of our democracy in which we are living.