Club for Growth
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The Club for Growth is a political action committee that advocates supply-side economics. The group sends contributions to those candidates that support a pro-tax cut and limited government agenda.
In the 2002 Congressional races, 17 out of 19 endorsed candidates won. It also endorsed Mark Sanford in the South Carolina Governor's Republican Primary. He defeated Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler.
In 2004, the Club for Growth caused a stir within the Republican Party by endorsing and heavily supporting U.S. Representative Pat Toomey, who challenged incumbent Senator Arlen Specter in the Republican primary in Pennsylvania. The organization was reported to have collected contributions totaling $800,000 for Toomey. It also spent $1 million on its own independent television advertising campaign on Toomey's behalf. Specter won by a narrow margin.
In addition, the Club for Growth will also make independent expenditures encouraging certain liberal Republicans to vote more conservatively (i.e., running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts).
External link
- Club for Growth (http://www.clubforgrowth.org)