Mike Pence Holds Top-Secret Dinner With GOP Donors

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/mike-pence-holds-top-secr_n_877693.html#s292582&title=Rep_Mike_Pence

The weekend of April 8th was a heady time for Mike Pence. On Friday, the Indiana congressman and soon-to-be candidate for governor nearly brought the government to a halt with his measure to defund Planned Parenthood, earning him darling status among social conservatives.

On Sunday, he told talk show hosts he wasn't sure if he'd be willing to sign off on a compromise reached to keep the government's lights on.

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Dubbed “The Saturday Evening Club,” these monthly affairs are described in a 2010 American Spectator annual report as “bringing together 25 to 30 leading journalists for off-the-record, roundtable discussions over dinner with a significant public figure.”

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Instead, the majority were New York-based Republican political donors who, as of the appetizers, had yet to become donors of Pence's. The most prominent among them was the controversial billionaire and Tea Party-backer David Koch, who was seated at Pence’s right hand for dinner, a position equal to his stature: Koch’s family foundation is one of the largest donors to The American Spectator, which operates as a 501(c) 3 non-profit. The contributions to the Spectator are tax-deductible, meaning the dinner itself was subsidized by taxpayers. To Pence’s immediate left was Bob Tyrrell, founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator.

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[brooklynite]

1. So, apparently not so top-secret...

[Orsino]

6. Yeah.

All the dinners we're not hearing about are the tippy-top secret ones.

Either way, though, what goes on is not for us rubes to know.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. I think it's time for the Democrats to teach the GOP a lesson and call their bluff ...

on the debt ceiling. I'd like them all to pledge they are going to abstain from voting on it. Announce that since the Republican's are largely responsible for the debt and are using it as a political football they are not going to help them. They are going to force them to act responsibly and raise it on their own.

Two can play at this game of chicken. Lets see how long they want to drag this out once they know they will have to vote a majority out of their own caucus in order to get it raised.

[midnight]

3. Can we get a picture of all these dick heads and send it all over the internet?

[INdemo]

4. If he should become Indiana Gov in 2012 we can look

forward to another Walker-Wisc style battle against the middle class with Pence trying to break our unions and more tax give-aways for the wealthy sponsored by Koch. Notice I said trying..

[Skidmore]

5. Please, we're too busy trying to justify Weiner's

bad behavior to attend to anything else today.