Is Senator Toomey keeping campaign promises?

Nearly every newly minted U.S. senator promises some variation of “I’m going to hit the ground running.” It sounds good to their supporters flush with victory. More often than not, new senators spend a few months if not a full year getting their bearings, often being tapped to preside over the Senate in order to get a grasp of the often Byzantine rules of the chamber. Indeed, few freshmen senators get much national media exposure…

March 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm | Comments (5)

Report: Specter refunds total $850K

The final refund tally is in.

Since defecting to the Democrats, Senator Arlen Specter has returned about $850,000-worth of campaign contributions to disaffected donors, The New York Times

February 2, 2010 at 8:00 am | Comments (10)

Will Toomey seek repeal of health care?

The ultra-conservative Club for Growth on Thursday announced a push to have health care legislation repealed and is seeking the support of members of Congress.

The first two to sign up were Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

The pledge reads: “I hereby pledge to the people of my state/district to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that…

January 14, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Comments (3)

Conservative group says it’s contacted 6,000 Specter donors

The conservative Club for Growth said Tuesday that its political action committee had contacted 6,000 individual and committee contributors to Senator Arlen Specter, encouraging them to request that their donations be refunded.

When Specter switched parties earlier this year, he said he would refund campaign contributions upon request (more than $200,000 has been refunded). More recently, he asked that all such requests by made by Oct. 15, the day third quarter FEC campaign finance reports…

October 6, 2009 at 1:49 pm | Comments (3)

Chocola of Club for Growth offended by Specter’s defection

The Club for Growth issued a vehement denunciation of Arlen Specter’s decision to change parties a little over a week ago. After reading the statement, I thought that it’s severity was somewhat amusing, so

May 8, 2009 at 9:46 am | Comments (0)

Toomey gets a communications chief

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey has brought on the former communications director from The Club For Growth as his campaign’s new chief communications operative, a campaign official confirmed last night.

Nachama Soloveichik, who until recently headed up communications under Toomey at the conservative organization in Washington, has left The Club For Growth to work for the campaign.

Much of Toomey’s early financial support is coming from The Club For Growth’s PAC. And before he started…

May 5, 2009 at 8:58 am | Comments (0)