GOP establishment donors target Tea Party congressman Seven big-time GOP donors send letter urging others to support a Tea Party congressman's more moderate challenger

Justin Amash is about as conservative as they come. In fact, Amash, who surfed into Congress on the Tea Party wave of 2010, is so conservative that some influential GOP donors have decided they've had enough and are supporting his more moderate challenger, Brian Ellis.

According to the right-wing Breitbart, seven big GOP donors — J.C. Huizenga, Mark Bissel, Mike Jandernoa, Mark Murray, John Canepa, Marge Potter, and David Frey — have signed a letter a public letter urging others to join them in their support for Ellis and opposition to Amash. Among Amash's transgressions, his support for Ted Cruz's quixotic campaign to shut down the government in order to defund Obamacare ranks highest. But as this segment of the letter makes clear, that's hardly these donors' only problem with Amash's hyper-conservative record (emphasis theirs):

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Our current Congressman voted against the final version of the Paul Ryan Budget that would cut $5 trillion in spending - and he was the only Republican from Michigan to do so. He refused to vote in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. He voted against a 20% tax cut that would allow small businesses to create and retain jobs here in Michigan. Just this month, he and a small group of like-minded legislators rejected Speaker Boehner's plea to pass legislation requiring Congress and the President to be subject to Obamacare, and put on hold the special new tax on medical equipment. This irresponsible action hurt over 50 great West Michigan businesses and was part of the chaos that led the nation to the edge of default.

Amash's opponent, meanwhile, has taken to sounding more like a moderate — at least on the issue of the government shutdown. "[Y]ou do not threaten to default on our debt," Ellis said. "You do not threaten the full faith and credit of the U.S. government."

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