CREDO Super PAC Targets Joe Walsh, Other 2012 Tea Party Candidates

A new super PAC is on a mission to take down the Tea Party, by targeting Illinios Rep. Joe Walsh and other 2012 candidates it describes as the "most odious members of Congress."

The super PAC is born out of California-based cell phone company CREDO Mobile, which was originally opposed to super PACs before deciding to fight fire with fire and create one of their own.

In addition to Walsh, the group will raise money to defeat Tea Party Reps. Frank Guinta (NH), Sean Duffy (Wis.), Steve King (Iowa), Chip Cravaack (Minn.), Allen West (Fla.), and four other candidates yet to be named.

"We're not supporting any Democratic candidates," said Becky Bond, head of CREDO Super PAC. "That's not what we’re doing. We're working for defeat. ... It's not about whether you agree or disagree with every Democratic candidate on the issues, it's about getting Joe Walsh out of office."

"We're talking about some of the most odious members of Congress. Even for Republicans these guys are low," said CREDO's campaign manager in a statement. "We're going to empower local activists to organize their friends and neighbors to lay out the truth about their representatives in the most basic terms: They are anti-woman. They are anti-science. They are hypocritical, bigoted, and have said and done things that are downright crazy."

A recent poll conducted by the Democratic-leaning group Public Policy Polling suggested that Walsh was vulnerable, trailing his Democratic rivals in Illinois' 8th District with an approval rating of 28 percent.

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Comments

[crankyOne2]

9 hours ago ( 6:31 PM)

I just finished watching a video from Credo SuperPAC about the need to take down the
Tea Party 10. It was very compelling, but when it was over a screen of 8 or 9 other video choices appeared on the screen, One was talking about the president being a Muslim, another still claiming his birth certificate is fake, another telling Catholics that it is their spiritual duty to vote for anti-aborrtion-anti-gay candidates. How are those hateful videos cued to show after the Credo one?

jim

[mumrock]

09:29 AM on 02/26/2012

I'm starting a PAC of my own to unseat Tea Party Republican Chip Cravaack: the Chips Ahoy Snack PAC. Read my blog and pls share: http://bit.ly/zt794T

[RPDash]

02:36 AM on 02/22/2012

CREDO Super PAC, me likey.

[dwuzze]

10:15 AM on 02/07/2012

There's an spac you can believe in

[sagmann]

10:03 AM on 02/07/2012

So, the Dems won't fight for an open Senate seat, in Texas??? That's why I don't trust the DNC with my money, but chose my own candidates!

[KrazyKitty]

09:54 AM on 02/07/2012

Walsh is just one of many 'freshmen' who came into office with one express goal: to ensure that they deny others the freedoms & liberties they themselves get to enjoy....after all, it seems they have deemed themselves 'worthy', while others are merely just 'lazy, spoiled and entitled'. Maybe Newt can give Joe's kids a job cleaning his toilets, so they have a sense of a work 'ethic'...something their dad couldn't teach them.

[invmartyc]

09:47 AM on 02/07/2012

All they have to do is shine light on the stupid things these teapublicans are trying to do! They will run like cockroaches when you turn on the lights at night!

[Rowwdy]

10:35 AM on 02/07/2012

*My vote in 2012 will support your cockroach motel…

[SteepBumps]

09:43 AM on 02/07/2012

If incredibly stupid counts as odious, I'd like to nominate John Fleming (R-LA) for one of the four unclaimed spots. You can't make this stuff up.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/congressman-abortionplex-facebook-onion-john-fleming.html?imw=Y

[kidphaco]

09:28 AM on 02/07/2012

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Sorry folks this is one man we cannot applaud!

[donald meyer]

09:11 AM on 02/07/2012

seems to me that both Democrats and Republicans want them out. They destroy their gravy train. They will probably be voted out .listen to the mindless media parrots below.

[MightyAfrodite]

09:11 AM on 02/07/2012

* chair dancin *

[SYR]

09:09 AM on 02/07/2012

I'll donate to that Pac. It is good to target those politicians who do not appear to have good, sound mental health!

[Patrick Shaw]

08:52 AM on 02/07/2012

Does HP have any pictures of this creep Joe Walsh where a pic of President Reagan is not in the background ?

[dreux62]

09:44 AM on 02/07/2012

No, one of Walsh's minions carries a Reagan photo around at all times just for potential photo ops.

[Wonder Land]

08:12 AM on 02/07/2012

FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE DAY !!!

[MarcDel]

08:04 AM on 02/07/2012

Loud mouth deadbeat dad. Poster boy for the GOP personal responsibility hypocrisy. Put a lean on his house, take his car, dock his pay and then throw him in jail.