In a Wall Street Journal editorial today, Club For Growth chair Pat Toomey announced that the far-right organization has its knives out for Alaska Rep. Don Young. The Politico has a summary:
The Club for Growth endorsed Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who is challenging Young in the state’s Aug. 26 primary. The group’s president, Pat Toomey, made the endorsement in a Wall Street Journal editorial today.
Parnell is an ally of the state’s governor, Sarah Palin, a reform-minded Republican who unseated former Gov. Frank Murkowski in a 2006 Republican primary. An attorney, Parnell has served in both the state House and state Senate.
“The reason for the endorsement is simple. Mr. Parnell is a solid conservative who led the fight for lower taxes and spending in the state legislature, and joined Gov. Sarah Palin in pushing for reform in the state,” Toomey wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
“The man he is hoping to replace isn’t economically conservative in the least. Mr. Young is actually a poster child for what has gone wrong with the Republican Party in Washington.”
The Club For Growth has a mixed record in elections this year. Their candidates were successful in NM-Sen and PA-10, but they fell short of getting their preferred choice across the line in PA-05, and their expenditures against Don Cazayoux were a waste of time and money. However, with Young as weak as he is today, this is serious business. If the Club For Growth succeeds in swamping out Young, our task will get a lot harder in November.
Primary: August 26th