Mar 3, 2015: Modern Healthcare: Conservative win at Supreme Court may spark disarray on next move
Dean Clancy, a conservative healthcare policy analyst who's worked in both the executive branch and on Capitol Hill, says there's about a 25% chance that Republicans will be able to coalesce around a plan of action if the Supreme Court invalidates subsidies. “They're going to be tempted to panic in the wake of a King victory, needlessly in my opinion,” Clancy said. “It will give them a greater opportunity to do what they promised, which is to repeal and replace Obamacare. More likely they will fail to find agreement among themselves about what to do.”
Dean Clancy, a conservative healthcare policy analyst who's worked in both the executive branch and on Capitol Hill, says there's about a 25% chance that Republicans will be able to coalesce around a plan of action if the Supreme Court invalidates subsidies. “They're going to be tempted to panic in the wake of a King victory, needlessly in my opinion,” Clancy said. “It will give them a greater opportunity to do what they promised, which is to repeal and replace Obamacare. More likely they will fail to find agreement among themselves about what to do.”
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Sept 24, 2014: Dean Clancy: Freedom Works: Defunding: Senate Timetable
Mar 29, 2014: The Hill: FreedomWorks VP quits over endorsement switch
FreedomWorks' former vice president for public policy, Dean Clancy resigned from the organization on Friday due to the group’s decision to switch endorsements in the Nebraska Senate Republican primary, sources tell The Hill. Aug 1, 2013: Washington Post: Inside the Obamacare resistance
Dean Clancy wants you to burn your Obamacare draft card. That there’s no such thing as an Obamacare draft card is, at best, only a small problem. Clancy is a vice president at FreedomWorks, where he has spent years fighting President Obama’s health-care law. Dec 3, 2012: Mother Jones: Exclusive: Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction (UPDATED)
In a move not publicly announced, former Rep. Dick Armey, the folksy conservative leader, has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the tea party. |
FreedomWorks originated from a conservative political group funded by David H. Koch called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which in 2004 split into Americans for Prosperity, led by President Nancy Pfotenhauer, and a remainder group which merged with Empower America and was renamed FreedomWorks, led by President and CEO Matt Kibbe. Dick Armey, Jack Kemp and C. Boyden Gray served as co-chairmen of the new organization with Bill Bennett focusing on school choice as a Senior Fellow. Empower America had been founded in 1993 by Bennett, former Secretary of HUD Jack Kemp, former Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, and former Representative Vin Weber. In December 2006, Steve Forbes joined the FreedomWorks board of directors. The ‘FreedomWorks’ name was derived from a common Armey saying: “Freedom works. Freedom is good policy and good politics.”
On November 30, 2012, Armey resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks. Armey told Mother Jones, "The top management team of FreedomWorks was taking a direction I thought was unproductive, and I thought it was time to move on with my life." Armey stipulated that FreedomWorks was to immediately remove his name, image, or signature "from all its letters, print media, postings, web sites, videos, testimonials, endorsements, fund raising materials, and social media." The Associated Press reported that in September 2012, Armey agreed to resign by November 2012 in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments, funded by board member Richard J. Stephenson.
On November 30, 2012, Armey resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks. Armey told Mother Jones, "The top management team of FreedomWorks was taking a direction I thought was unproductive, and I thought it was time to move on with my life." Armey stipulated that FreedomWorks was to immediately remove his name, image, or signature "from all its letters, print media, postings, web sites, videos, testimonials, endorsements, fund raising materials, and social media." The Associated Press reported that in September 2012, Armey agreed to resign by November 2012 in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments, funded by board member Richard J. Stephenson.
