It's all about winning: The welfare of the country? Forget it
A super PAC-politician firewall? Not quite
By JAKE SHERMAN, JOHN BRESNAHAN and KENNETH P. VOGEL | 8/23/12 4:35 AM EDT
On a steamy mid-July day on Capitol Hill, top lieutenants to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy had a special guest at their weekly vote-counting meeting: Karl Rove.
In McCarthy’s conference room, tucked away on the first floor of the Capitol, Rove — adviser and rainmaker for the outside spending force Crossroads — briefed the more than a dozen lawmakers on how the political climate across the country is shaping up and provided an overview of “broad strategy” for the election, according to several lawmakers present.
He waded into legislative politics, advising House Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill to avoid a shutdown, which he said would be politically disastrous. Rove also expressed discontent with how Mitt Romney was talking about his wealth.
The intermingling of outside groups and politicians has become so routine that even a meeting in the Capitol led by a party’s top outside operative barely raises an eyebrow. The rules governing their interactions are in their infancy, so it’s all but pointless for either side to cry foul.
(More here.)
By JAKE SHERMAN, JOHN BRESNAHAN and KENNETH P. VOGEL | 8/23/12 4:35 AM EDT
On a steamy mid-July day on Capitol Hill, top lieutenants to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy had a special guest at their weekly vote-counting meeting: Karl Rove.
In McCarthy’s conference room, tucked away on the first floor of the Capitol, Rove — adviser and rainmaker for the outside spending force Crossroads — briefed the more than a dozen lawmakers on how the political climate across the country is shaping up and provided an overview of “broad strategy” for the election, according to several lawmakers present.
He waded into legislative politics, advising House Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill to avoid a shutdown, which he said would be politically disastrous. Rove also expressed discontent with how Mitt Romney was talking about his wealth.
The intermingling of outside groups and politicians has become so routine that even a meeting in the Capitol led by a party’s top outside operative barely raises an eyebrow. The rules governing their interactions are in their infancy, so it’s all but pointless for either side to cry foul.
(More here.)
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