Activists and staff from FreedomWorks March to NRSC to Demand Hatch Ouster

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http://www.rollcall.com/news/FreedomWorks-Activists-March-to-NRSC-Hatch-Ouster-206808-1.html

Activists and staff from FreedomWorks, the influential advocacy group led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), on Monday ordered the Senate Republican campaign arm to stay out of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-Utah) re-election race in 2012.

One woman shouted “Grab your torches!” as dozens of conservative activists primarily from Utah piled out of the FreedomWorks office just two blocks north of the Capitol to march to the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters.

About 40 marchers from around the country — in Washington for FreedomWorks’ activist “boot camp” over the weekend — processed to the NRSC on Monday to tell the committee that its dollars should be spent elsewhere.

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FreedomWorks has made defeating Hatch a top priority. The group complains the six-term Utah Republican has frequently sided with Democrats, and it doesn’t like his votes for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and to raise the debt ceiling. The race is one of 15 Senate contests the group will target in 2012, and other conservatives say booting Hatch in a party convention next year is a priority. That’s one reason he’s shifted to the right of late.