Posted on 09/14/2015 4:21:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A collective of anonymous artists plastered Los Angeles — from downtown to the mid-Wilshire district — with posters and stickers of Mockingjay's rebellion bird to tout Cruz' presidential candidacy.
Donald Trump may be the lead choice of California Republicans, but Ted Cruz apparently still holds a special place in the hearts of Los Angeles’ conservative street artists.
Over the past few days, a collective of anonymous artists — responsible for the "Don't Say" signs at Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters and the Maxine Waters "Poverty Pimp" poster — used the Mockingjay rebellion bird symbol to tout presidential candidate Cruz.
With the second Republican debate scheduled for Wednesday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, the artists have papered the city with pro-Cruz stickers and posters from downtown Los Angeles (at the Walt Disney Concert Hall) through Hollywood (where they plastered their Mockingjay rebellion bird on a series anti-Trump signs) and over to LACMA in the mid-Wilshire district.
One of the artists told The Hollywood Reporter that they wanted to tie the Mockingjay rebellion to Cruz and "the country's present parallel to The Capitol" depicted in the Hunger Games movies.
"The big question for us 'is the republic actually dead?' and is Obama just the first caesar?" the artist said. "The welfare state and the Kardashians are the 21st century version of bread and circuses ... Is this a democratic republic, or just a Washington D.C. TV show that is pretending to be one, while the Federal government laughs at the plebes ... If Cruz is the candidate, we have a chance at restoring the republic."
And if Trump wins the nomination? "At least he's all in on being an American."
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I like Cruz as well. I'm concerned he isn't doing well right now.
What happens when the first few primaries drop and he finishes 3rd or 4th?
Certainly, it's very early and Trump could step on his own junk with his brash behavior.
You would think as a known commodity, there won't be any surprises like what happened to Herman Cain.
Marking for later. Migraine in full force, need to turn off screen.
#CruzOn brave Freepers.
This one was by Sabo. The one the article refers to is not. Sabo posted that fact earlier. I’m sure Sabo is the inspiration for the recent art, though.
After watching many election cycles since the 1970’s up until now one thing I have learned is that anything can happen and conventional wisdom goes out the window.
Herman Cain was the bright star rising here on FR back in 2012 but look what happened.
I would not be to concerned about Ted Cruz’s spot in the polls, he is in a good spot right now sitting steady not getting hot or peaking to soon or at the wrong time.
Ted Cruz has the best grass roots network and ground game as any other campaign out there including the Democrats.
He has a war chest of money to keep him going even up until the GOP convention if have to by ballot.
He has a very talented team of young professionals who know and are skilled at demograhpics, statictics who know how to crunch the numbers in how people think, vote, on trends so on and soon.
On top of that Ted Cruz got the book and studied the guy and archetect of Obama’s presidential campaign in how they crunched the numbers, learned how they won.
Ted Cruz is no dummy, a brilliant mind on his feet.
Okay Catnip...
Very cool. Thanks!
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