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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:01 PM Jan 2017

Ex-Breitbart Reporters Say They're Forming PAC To Enforce Trump Agenda

Source: Talking Points Memo

By MATT SHUHAM Published JANUARY 13, 2017, 1:55 PM EDT

A pack of former Breitbart staffers are publicizing their plans to create a political action committee that would pressure lawmakers into falling in line with Donald Trump’s political agenda.

The Atlantic reported Friday that the “America First Project” didn’t yet have much to its name aside from the participation of a handful of former Breitbart staffers and an activist who previously ran the “Black Men for Bernie” group.

Dustin Stockton, a former Breitbart reporter who will serve as the PAC's chief strategist, told The Atlantic that the group would run for the time being out of an existing organization called Western Representation PAC, with a media arm called "Big League Politics" to come in the distant future.

Stockton, who was involved in the Tea Party movement before he joined Breitbart, said the group would aim to fundraise $8-10 million in its first year with the help of a 200,000-person email list.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-breitbart-reporters-populist-nationalist-pac

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Ex-Breitbart Reporters Say They're Forming PAC To Enforce Trump Agenda (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Slackers. Seriously, what took them so long? Freethinker65 Jan 2017 #1
This is going to be a very rough go. WhiteTara Jan 2017 #2
I don't think even Trump knows his own agenda. They_Live Jan 2017 #3
Of course Trump knows what his agenda is. christx30 Jan 2017 #6
True. They_Live Jan 2017 #8
First Item on the Agenda Roy Rolling Jan 2017 #4
Like anybody knows what Trump's agenda is. tclambert Jan 2017 #5
Hmmmm! Journalists Who Now Are Running A PAC To Promote an Agenda? ProfessorGAC Jan 2017 #9
Interesting. Their mother ship PAC was all but dormant in 2016. Eugene Jan 2017 #7
"Ex-Breitbart Reporters"? WTF does one have to do to lose their job at Breibart? Thor_MN Jan 2017 #10
Publish something truthful? susanna Jan 2017 #11
God, how Turbineguy Jan 2017 #12
What the hell is the trump agenda anyway? mdbl Jan 2017 #13

WhiteTara

(29,676 posts)
2. This is going to be a very rough go.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:11 PM
Jan 2017

I am sickened by the thought of all that we will be subjected to for the ego of an ugly man with tiny little hands.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
6. Of course Trump knows what his agenda is.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:42 PM
Jan 2017

"Make the Trump brand great again". Hotels in China, strong friendship with Russia, despite what's good for the country.
Trump's agenda is Trump.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
5. Like anybody knows what Trump's agenda is.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:38 PM
Jan 2017

Oh, I forgot:

1) Make America Great Again.
2)

And the rest of the page is covered in drawings of naked women, without heads. Donald's doodles never include women's heads.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
9. Hmmmm! Journalists Who Now Are Running A PAC To Promote an Agenda?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 04:31 PM
Jan 2017

Sounds like political operatives the whole time. Not much journalism. Seems more like proagandists.

Eugene

(61,595 posts)
7. Interesting. Their mother ship PAC was all but dormant in 2016.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 04:15 PM
Jan 2017

According to Open Secrets, the Western Representation PAC's fundraising and
and spending were way down in 2016, ending the year with ~$4,100 in the bank.
They took in nearly $1 million in 2012.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00461772

mdbl

(4,972 posts)
13. What the hell is the trump agenda anyway?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:58 PM
Jan 2017

All he's doing is what the low-life repugs in congress tell him. You can see that by his cabinet choices.

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