Political Initiatives
The Club invented the "RINO Watch" list — RINO being a pejorative acronym for Republican In Name Only — to monitor what it describes as "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies." The list has focused on Republicans who voted against tax changes and budget cuts supported by the Club.
In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively (e.g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts). (Chafee was defeated in 2006 general election after an expensive primary fight with a more conservative Republican financed in large part by the club.) Founder of Club for Growth Stephen Moore has said, `We want to be seen as the tax cut enforcer in the party.`
The Club for Growth's website used to feature a "Comrade of the Month" award, which was given to the public official or figure who, in the Club's words, "best lives up to the policies of big-government redistribution and restrictions on economic freedom."
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