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Power Struggle Grips the Club for Growth
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| Last Edited | None Entered Feb 07, 2005 03:42am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, February 2, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Club for Growth announced last month that its president, Stephen Moore, was leaving to start a new organization with a similar outlook, the Free Enterprise Fund. The club's statements about the change, including a letter from Mr. Moore, portrayed the transition as an amicable "passing [of] the torch" from Mr. Moore to the new president, Patrick Toomey.
However, sources familiar with the inner workings of the group said Mr. Moore's departure followed heated disagreements with the club's four-person board of directors.
The rift over governance of the group also led a vaunted economist, Arthur Laffer, to quit the club's board in recent weeks. Other founders of the club and members of its economic advisory pan el have also taken sides in the dispute.
In his January 7 letter to the club's members, Mr. Moore said he was "happy to announce" the appointment of Mr. Toomey, a former congressman who nearly defeated Senator Specter of Pennsylvania in the GOP primary last year. Mr. Moore said he planned to focus his efforts on the Free Enterprise Fund, "an exciting new venture which will complement the club's work." He said the organization would advocate for simplification of the tax code, reforms to the legal system, and private Social Security accounts.
Mr. Moore acknowledged yesterday that his departure from the club was more akin to a divorce than a natural parting of the ways.
"I don't really want to talk about it, quite frankly," the 44-year-old activist told The New York Sun. "At some point, we may go public with what the real story is. We're trying to do it with as little acrimony as possible." |
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