Raul Labrador Announces Run For Majority Leader
by Caroline May 13 Jun 2014
Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador announced a late-entry
bid for Majority Leader but faces a
steep climb after Whip Kevin McCarthy has already garnered significant support
over the past three days.
Eric Cantor’s Tuesday defeat sent
a clear message that “Americans are looking for a change in the status
quo," Labraodor said in a statement.
"I want a House Leadership
team that reflects the best of our conference,” the Idaho Republican said in a
statement Friday. “A leadership team that can bring the Republican conference
together. A leadership team that can help unite and grow our party. Americans don't believe their leaders in Washington are listening
and now is the time to change that.”
Thursday evening House Rules
Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) dropped out of the race for majority
leader. Hours earlier, Thursday morning, House Financial Services Committee
Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), thought to be conservatives’ best hope of
attaining the slot, balked at running.
The lack of a serious conservative
challenge this week left conservatives shaking their heads.
“Shame on all of us. Here's the
conservative movement, and we were all asleep at the switch. We did not
galvanize behind a guy, or a person, and we waited until the die was cast. If
conservatives are going to do more than throwing mud in people's eyes, if we're
going to actually win some battles, then we damn well better get on our game,”
one conservative lawmaker told Breitbart Thursday.
Labrador’s name was floating
around as a possible alternative and one that was being encouraged to hop in,
however the conservative lawmaker noted that such a tardy effort by a
relatively new member would be a “token opposition just to say we put up fight
like at the Alamo.”
Nevertheless Labrador,
who was first elected to Congress in 2010, is in.
“President Obama and the Democrats
have had their chance and they have failed,” Labrador
said Friday. “Republicans must be
willing to take these challenges head on with new leadership, fresh ideas, and
a different approach. I am running for Majority Leader because I want to help
create a vision of growth and opportunity for everyone and start getting to
work for the American people."
Raul Labrador
Raul
Labrador is a member of the ID
congressional delegation, and an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network.
Note: Jeb
Bush is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, a member of the Alfalfa Club, and his father is George H.W. Bush.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Frederic V. Malek
is the founder & board member for the American
Action Network, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and Nancy Pelosi was an invited to his 2013
wedding reception.
Nancy
Pelosi was invited to George Soros’s
2013 wedding reception, and is the minority leader for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Madeleine K.
Albright is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the
chair for the Albright Stonebridge Group.
Carlos M.
Gutierrez is a co-chairman for the Albright
Stonebridge Group, and an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network.
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, is Jeb Bush’s father, and a
member of the Burning Tree Club.
Jeb
Bush is George H.W. Bush’s son, a
member of the Alfalfa Club, and an
advisory committee member for the Hispanic
Leadership Network.
Raul
Labrador is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, and a member of the ID congressional delegation.
Jack
Valenti is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
John
A. Boehner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, the House leader for the Republican
establishment, and the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
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