Tea Party Club For Growth Wants Greg Walden Out

Oregons' only GOP Representative has been targeted by the Tea Party Club for Growth in the GOP primary according to Oregonlive.com, they potentially could be backing Klamath County Chairman Dennis Linthicum against Walden.

Walden, who was first elected in 1998, has been well-entrenched in his vast district and has had little serious competition since -- particularly in the Republican primary.  He is in the House leadership by virtue of his chairmanship of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which oversees the House GOP campaign effort.
But earlier this year, the Club for Growth -- a conservative group that often spends heavily in Republican races -- put Walden on its "Primary My Congressman" list of GOP members the group thinks should be ousted.
The immediate cause of the group's unhappiness was Walden's opposition to a proposal by President Barack Obama -- and supported by several Republican leaders -- to adopt smaller cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients.  The group cited that, as well as several of his votes, as examples of a "long record of supporting increases in government spending and opposing fiscally conservative proposals."

Linthicum said he thinks he can win support from grassroots groups, particularly those involved in the Tea Party movement.  "I think the Tea Party individuals...are clearly in my camp," he said.
Linthicum recently took credit for Walden's vote against the budget deal that ended the shutdown, saying that he too would would have opposed the deal because it did not provide major spending reductions.
Walden has said he opposed the deal because it "kicks the can down the road" without providing a solution.  It marked one of the rare times that Walden had parted ways with House Speaker John Boehner on a major fiscal issue.