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Posted on 04/24/2015 1:00:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Manchester, N.H. -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is building his presidential campaign team in New Hampshire with the hiring of a second staffer, who will focus on attracting grassroots support.
Sen. Ted Cruz continued his tour of the Granite State Sunday by speaking with voters about gun laws and other election issues.
WMUR.com has learned Zach Carrier has signed on as a field organizer, joining state Cruz campaign senior adviser Ethan Zorfas.
Zorfas joined the Cruz campaign as a senior adviser a month ago, focusing on New Hampshire and other states, including Louisiana, where he was the general consultant for Sen. Bill Cassidy’s win over 18-year incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu.
Carrier last year worked for the state Republican Party as the Seacoast Regional Field Director.
A Cruz campaign official said that in his party position, Carrier “organized and led a team that transformed the Seacoast grassroots operation into one of the top performing field offices in the state during the 2014 mid-term cycle.”
Carrier is a 2012 graduate of Baylor University, where was president of his class.
Cruz announced his candidacy on March 23 at Liberty University in Virginia. He has been to New Hampshire three times since mid-March and twice since his announcement. He received a positive response from activists at the NHGOP’s First-in-the-Nation Leadership Summit last week, where he delivered his customarily conservative message.
On Capitol Hill this week, Cruz has introduced a constitutional amendment and a bill to allow states that forbid gay couples from marrying to keep those laws in place as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on the marriage issue. Even if his bills do not pass, they will force his 2016 competitors in the Senate – Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio – to take a clear stand.
“The people should decide the issue of marriage, not the courts,” Cruz said on Friday. “The union of a man and a woman has been the building block of society since the dawn of history, and the people in numerous states have repeatedly affirmed that truth in their laws. Nothing in the Constitution prohibits that.
“In fact, it is inconceivable that when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, Americans would have understood they were sowing the seeds for courts to invalidate traditional marriage,” he said. “And yet that is precisely what has happened. Judges have taken an unprecedented activist role to strike down state marriage laws. I am proud to introduce this legislation to uphold the institution of marriage and to safeguard the states’ authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”
In New Hampshire, Cruz has been speaking to conservative groups. Last Sunday, following the GOP summit, Cruz spoke to state Rep. Bill O’Brien’s House Republican Victory PAC.
He is expected to return to the state in May, with dates yet to be finalized, a campaign official said.
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