{"id":490309,"date":"2010-03-30T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80946"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:02:54","slug":"club-for-growth-reminds-mark-kirk-of-his-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490309","title":{"rendered":"Club for Growth Reminds Mark Kirk of His Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I asked Mike Connolly<\/a> of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s “Repeal It” pledge of official support, Connolly suggested that repercussions couldn’t really happen until January 2011, when new members of Congress have a chance to introduce repeal legislation. If they whiff, he said, then they’ll hear about it.<\/p>\n

Today, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) dodged a question on whether, as he’s said before, he’d back full repeal. Greg Sargent gauged Connolly’s reaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe said that he\u2019s going to do this,\u201d Club for Growth spokesman Mike Connolly just said by phone. \u201cWe expect him to live up to his pledge.\u201d … \u201cHe\u2019s made a promise to the people of Illinois,\u201d Connolly continued. Asked if failing to follow through could cost Kirk the Club\u2019s support in a general election, Connolly said: \u201cWe\u2019ll have to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>Sargent calls this the Club “ripping” Kirk, but I don’t see it. According to FEC records at OpenSecrets, the Club hasn’t even given anything<\/a> to Kirk — there’s nothing to take back or withhold, really. But if the Club is going relatively easy on candidates, I don’t think Tea Party activists — always cool on Kirk — will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s “Repeal It” pledge of official support, Connolly suggested that repercussions couldn’t really happen until January 2011, when new members of Congress have a chance to introduce repeal legislation. If they whiff, he said, then they’ll hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}