Big Business Vs. Libertarians in the GOP - The Daily Beast - David Boaz:
June 12, 2014 - "Around the country, ... big business is devoting a surprising amount of effort to trying to defeat the small number of libertarian-minded members of Congress and state legislatures. Why, for instance, did big companies spend so much money to defeat a Republican Georgia legislator last month? Apparently Rep. Charles Gregory was just too libertarian for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the companies like Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Georgia Power, and AT&T, who suddenly set up the “Georgia Coalition for Job Growth” to oppose him and other tea party legislators.....
"In Kentucky, business leaders lobbied hard though unsuccessfully to persuade Steve Stevens, head of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, to run against Rep. Thomas Massie....
"A Washington business consultant has moved to northern California to challenge anti-earmarks Rep. Tom McClintock, because he 'thinks representatives should deliver for folks back home,' in the words of a local reporter.
" And that’s just it. It isn’t gay marriage or foreign policy that seems to annoy big and politically connected businesses. They just object that libertarian legislators don’t play the game, don’t bring home the bacon, and actually take seriously the limited government ideas that most Republicans only pay lip service to."
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June 12, 2014 - "Around the country, ... big business is devoting a surprising amount of effort to trying to defeat the small number of libertarian-minded members of Congress and state legislatures. Why, for instance, did big companies spend so much money to defeat a Republican Georgia legislator last month? Apparently Rep. Charles Gregory was just too libertarian for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the companies like Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Georgia Power, and AT&T, who suddenly set up the “Georgia Coalition for Job Growth” to oppose him and other tea party legislators.....
"In Kentucky, business leaders lobbied hard though unsuccessfully to persuade Steve Stevens, head of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, to run against Rep. Thomas Massie....
"A Washington business consultant has moved to northern California to challenge anti-earmarks Rep. Tom McClintock, because he 'thinks representatives should deliver for folks back home,' in the words of a local reporter.
" And that’s just it. It isn’t gay marriage or foreign policy that seems to annoy big and politically connected businesses. They just object that libertarian legislators don’t play the game, don’t bring home the bacon, and actually take seriously the limited government ideas that most Republicans only pay lip service to."
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/12/big-business-vs-libertarians-in-the-gop.html
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