Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) has joined the Senate Conservatives Fund as its president, the group announced Tuesday.
Cuccinelli, who ran unsuccessfully for Virginia governor last year against Democrat Terry McAuliffe, said in a video message that under his leadership, the Jim DeMint-founded group will continue to “stand up to the status quo, continuing to support conservative candidates wherever we find them, and, yes, that means continuing to take on Republican incumbents who’ve lost their way.”
“Standing up to the establishment isn’t easy, but it is the right thing to do if we are going to save our country,” he added.
The Tea-Party aligned outside group has endorsed several winning candidates this primary season, including Ben Sasse in Nebraska and Joni Ernst in Iowa. Another SCF-backed candidate, Chris McDaniel, is polling ahead in a runoff primary election against Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
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It can’t be easy raising money from billionaires rabid about protecting their interests. Good luck, Ken.
"…under his [the Cooch’s] leadership, the Jim DeMint-founded group will continue to “stand up to the status quo…”
Brainiac! You ARE the fucking status quo.
Why isn’t this guy in jail?
“The Tea-Party aligned outside group has endorsed several winning candidates this primary season”
…and quite a few losers as well. Graham easily won his primary (which was ground zero for Demint), McConnell easily won his primary. Both of those were big bets that SCF went into quite heavily. The tea party candidates in Georgia took the last place positions. (Kingston isn’t a tea partier, though he was more than willing to act like one to get by Gingrey and Broun).
Overall the SCF and these other TP based groups are spending an enormous amount of money and producing very few results. Cochran barely ran a campaign in MS. Sasse was an early favorite. Ernst was a win, I will grant them that…but now they have to get these people through the general elections. Which is going to cost even more money and, in Iowa’s case, prove to be a very difficult task.
They are bleeding themselves dry.
aah, wingnut welfare.