So someone asked for a quick walk down memory lane of Club for Growth
and their role in the Koch funded Dark Money empire that tried to deliver America to russia on behalf of Big Oil.
But who is Club for Growth? What is the history?
Club For Growth was Started by Richard Gilder. He had started a group called "Political Club for Growth" and a company called Gilder Gagnon Howe & Company,
Gilder Gagnon Howe & Company would invest, and eventually bankrupt the Texas Rangers with George H Bush
Gilder was big in in the New York investments scene and hung with those at the Manhattan Institute trying to privatize social security and public education
Through out 80-90's Gilder would host megadonor get togethers called "Political Club for Growth" to raise money for folks like Newt Gingrich and Steve Forbes
...weird...there is some shady real estate deals involved
there seems to always be almost money laundering everywhere
Gilder would be joined by a few others like Stephen Moore of the CATO Institute and formalize his Club into the "Club for Growth"
The Board of Director's include a whose who of disinfo like Brett Bozell and folks who helped MAGA and russia capture the Supreme Court such as Harlan Crowe
And a ton of really, really rich people
More than any ohter org outside of Grover Norquist (who was associated) the Club for Growth enforced a fierce fealty test for the @GOP
In fact, in 2004, they even forced Stephen Moore out of the group he funded
Moore is the first person to use the term RINO
Club for Growth even had a RINO tracker on their website
@GOP The blind faith the @GOP now shows for MAGA simply would not be possible with the early efforts of the Club for Growth
They created the perception that if you weren't 100% loyal you were really lefty.
@GOP Club for Growth immediatley adopted the idea of creating "Liberal" as a bad word
and started to dump millions and millions into winning Congressional seats
@GOP They would spend millions.
There atacks on Howard Dean are some of the most famous:
And Club for Growth viciously attacked anyone who broke from their idea of party fealty
ask Joe Schwartz
they integrated with the other places of early disinfo and insifno like townhall
I can't prove it but I would assume Koch's i360 or Mercer's rentech was doing the data mesh
@GOP They would win...Andrew Roth being the Blogger..Best Business Blog of the Year in 2005
I mean it sounds all innocent enough...The Club for Growth never got to up anything shady.....
well the FEC, Federal Electyion Committee Disagreed
@GOP Turns out Club for Growth was illegally bundling donations
And the FEC sued them
@GOP And also Down the Fed...back to the Gold Standard...because you know....John Birch Society, General Singlaub, and the the @GOP
@GOP and they went after the RINOS hard
(source warning...Washington Times is a Looney Mooney disinfo rag)
@GOP But they were supporting many of the oddballs who would become the backbone of MAGA and QANON in Congress
Going back to 2006 with folks like Gym Jordan and Sharon Angle
@GOP After Citiizens United Club for Growth let the flood gates of Koch money flow...especially in Wisconsin
Eric O'Keefe, a Koch brothers simp, formed the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity and also American Majority
all to push Gov Walker's attacks on Unions
@GOP Peter Thiel
John W. Childs
Robert Mercer
Paul Singer
Jeffrey Yass
Uline
would also fund Club for Growth...it was MAGA money class before MAGA
C;ub for Growth would oppose the Bush auto bailouts of 2008 while Jeffrey Yasss made a gajillion dollars on shorts and no American profited more from the 2008 than Paul Singer
It's the Elite suits...using the anti-elite freedumb chudniks to line their pockets...again...like always
@GOP After Citizens United the Club for Growth's first targe was B;ue Dog Democrats
these were center-right democrats who help create a bipartisan atmosphere in Congress
Club for Growth wanted them all gone
@GOP They went after any district hard in 2010 where "Blue Dogs" helped create a bipartisan atmosphere
@GOP The Club for Growth threw their support behind Jeff Flake hard in Arizona:
By 2011 the Club for Growth was fully aligned with the Koch choice of anointed one Ted Cruz
They dumped more money into his race than any they had in history
Remember...it was supposed to be Cruz in 16, not Trump
they say no coordination...but ALEC, FreedomWorks, SPN, and Club for Growth all worked together on the organic Tea Party lie
@GOP rush limbaugh was a huge sponor, as was Steve Forbes
And Club for Growth hates the Affordable Care Act
They do now want you to have access to any kind of government subsidies to lower the cost of skyrocketing insurance
and they 100% wnat to private Social Security
This would eventually cost Pat Toomey his seat in Pennsylvania
Turns out voters like the Affordable Care Act and Social Security
Yet every year the @gop tries to kill both
@GOP How many Kremlin influenced, coup supporting kookeys are in the Club for Growth donor list of 2910?
I can spot a few names
@GOP This pattern would continue
and the here is the mostest of silliest parts.
The Club for Growth would always pretend to be the NOT MAGA option
but look who Club for Growth funded in 2020
that's like a KFC bucket of MAGA