bobbyw24
01-27-2010, 08:36 AM
After winning the endorsement of national Republicans, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was once thought to be a shoo-in for the GOP nomination to take over the Senate seat vacated by Republican Mel Martinez.
But Crist's support for last year's nearly $800 billion federal stimulus plan cost him support among conservatives and he's now in a tight primary battle with a Tea Party-backed rival, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.
FreedomWorks has formed a PAC on behalf of several Tea Party groups for pouring money into a number of races. Besides helping Rubio, the PAC is working to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and is backing Republican Pat Toomey's challenge to Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania.
In Kentucky, their political money is going to Rand Paul against the GOP's candidate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, for the nomination to take over the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning. Paul is the son of Republican Rep. Ron Paul, who won a small but devoted following when he ran for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination on an anti-tax, anti-Iraq war platform.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFMD9G0&show_article=1
But Crist's support for last year's nearly $800 billion federal stimulus plan cost him support among conservatives and he's now in a tight primary battle with a Tea Party-backed rival, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.
FreedomWorks has formed a PAC on behalf of several Tea Party groups for pouring money into a number of races. Besides helping Rubio, the PAC is working to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and is backing Republican Pat Toomey's challenge to Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania.
In Kentucky, their political money is going to Rand Paul against the GOP's candidate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, for the nomination to take over the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning. Paul is the son of Republican Rep. Ron Paul, who won a small but devoted following when he ran for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination on an anti-tax, anti-Iraq war platform.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFMD9G0&show_article=1