Senate Conservatives Fund: ‘McConnell Cost Republicans The Majority’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and GOP leaders talk to reporters after defeating a $54 billion funding bill for transportation, housing and community development grants because it exceeded the punishi... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and GOP leaders talk to reporters after defeating a $54 billion funding bill for transportation, housing and community development grants because it exceeded the punishing spending limits required under automatic budget cuts that are the product of Washington's failure to deal with its fiscal problems, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Congress leaves for a five week recess Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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The ongoing feud between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Jim DeMint-founded Senate Conservatives Fund showed no signs of slowing down Friday, after the group blamed McConnell for costing Republicans a majority in the upper chamber.

In a press release the Fund said it was responding to what it called a “false attack,” in which a McConnell spokesman said this of the group: “There are few organizations in American politics more responsible for the Democratic Majority in the U.S. Senate, and thus the continued existence of Obamacare, than the Senate Conservatives Fund.”

“In the past two election cycles, SCF helped nominate only two Tea Party candidates who cost Republicans seats in the Senate,” said Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Fund, in a statement. “However, Mitch McConnell financially supported and helped nominate at least six moderate Republicans who cost Republicans seats during the same time period. If Mitch McConnell wants to blame someone for the party’s failure to win a majority, he should look in the mirror.”

The Fund is also spending $340,000 on a new ad-buy campaign urging McConnell to take the lead in a push to defund Obamacare.

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