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AP Photo/John Raoux The old alliance between the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party has officially collapsed. Fractures started in 2020 when the Chamber endorsed 23 freshman Democrats for re-election despite their anti-business voting records. Now, the GOP is becoming openly hostile, most recently barring the Chamber’s representatives from hearings.
(related The Chamber of Commerce Cries About Democrats After Supporting Democrats, and Getting Bent Comes to Mind ) “If you want to join something that’s a wing of the Republican Party, go for it. And if we don’t fit your needs, that’s fine.” The @USChamber sticks to guns vs. GOP, as Senate Rs ban Chamber from hearings. Big @ToryNewmyer @Post_AG joint here. https://t.co/tg4vqiqnPY — Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) May 17, 2021 Per The Washington Post , the leadership of the Chamber remains aggressively stubborn about their new strategy. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen exactly what that strategy hopes to accomplish. Tom Wilson, chief executive of the insurance giant Allstate and former chair of the U.S. Chamber board, said the Chamber makes no apologies for its decision. “Sure, there are some people who don’t like what we’re doing, because they signed on thinking it was a wing of the Republican Party,” Wilson said in an interview. “And we’re like, ‘That’s okay. If you want to join something that’s a wing of the Republican Party, go for it. And if we don’t fit your needs, that’s fine.’” Even so, the conservative backlash has led to alarm even among some of the organization’s closest allies. A veteran U.S. Chamber board member, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal, said: “It is a legitimate question how well-thought out this strategy is. People are concerned, and they’re discussing where else they can send revenues to support free enterprise.” Do you know where you shouldn’t send revenues to support free enterprise? The Democrat Party. Yet, because of the Chamber’s fairly new, more progressive leadership, how they score candidates changed. Because of that change, they managed to rate the guy who wrote the 2017 tax cuts lower than someone who endorsed the PROAct, a […]
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