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Posted on 05/05/2015 11:26:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With five Republicans already declared to be in the race for the presidential nomination, Rep. Greg Heartsill has already chosen a candidate. Heartsill is serving on Sen. Ted Cruz's Iowa leadership team.
"I admire him," Heartsill said is the reason he chose to join Cruz's camp, so early in the caucus campaign. He described Cruz as a courages conservative who "talks the conservative talk and walks the conservative walk."
Heartsill is serving the Cruz campaign strictly as a volunteer. House ethics rules would allow him to be a paid consultant, but he does not want that role.
"I'm working for someone I believe in and I have no financial incentive to be part of his team," Heartsill said.
His role with Cruz will be to recruit other precinct captains and informing potential Republican caucus-goers why he supports Cruz. Heartsill believes that there are many great candidates in the field, but he hopes that the candidates will convalesce behind a strong conservative candidate, instead of spending so much time tearing each other down before the general election. As a professed conservative, Heartsill does not believe that the Republican "establishment" has been able to find candidates who can distinguish themselves from the Democrats.
"None of us want another Clinton or Bush in the White House," Heartsill said.
Heartsill adds that he has talked to Cruz, whom he says is eager to visit Marion County. Heartsill is also trying to recruit Cruz's father, Rafael, to come to discuss what the Cuban Revolution was like.
"He knows firsthand what Marxism looks like," Heartsill said.
Being one of the first to join Cruz's Iowa camp makes Heartsill proud. He believes that Cruz has broad, grassroots support, as Cruz's most recent fundraising reports indicate that over 90 percent of the donations the campaign received were for $100 or less.
I’d like to see Cruz roll out a steady drumbeat of conservative supporters from the House and the Senate. I don’t want to see thirty or so out of the 300 republicans in Congress all at once. That’s one news story. I’d like to hear one new announcement, a few times a week, for a year if he can build that support (and if he can’t, he probably won’t win the nomination).
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