At RedState Gathering, the U.S. Chamber is Enemy No. 2
Those of you unfamiliar with GOP factional politics might not understand that, at this RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Hillary Clinton may be Enemy No. 1.
But the U.S. Chamber is Enemy No. 2. Here’s a question that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was hit with from the audience:
"The single largest problem conservatives have with the Republican party now is that the Chamber of Commerce has too much influence. How would you give regular people more of a seat at the table?"
Here was Christie’s answer:
"...The reason we're not dealing with immigration as strongly as we need to be, in my opinion, is because of the Chamber of Commerce. They don't want to use E-Verify…."
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
