Statement on being named California State Chairman for Ted Cruz for President

SAN DIEGO -- Former California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring today issued the following statement on being named to lead the Ted Cruz for President campaign in California as state campaign chairman:

"Ted Cruz is an exciting, Reaganite candidate for President who has demonstrated the courage needed to get the country on track.

"There are few places in America that highlight the failure of the Obama 'recovery' than California, where we have the nation's highest poverty rate, one of its worst unemployment rates, and a middle class squeezed between sky high taxes and a high cost of living. People in many of our counties are struggling with double digit unemployment and opportunities crushed by bad ideas coming out of Washington and Sacramento.

"To help Californians regain lost ground, we need a President who will set a new course for the nation that will reignite our economy by expanding economic freedoms and opportunity. Ted Cruz has proven he has the courage, skill, principles and experience to make it happen and I'm proud to join his team.

News release (5/11): "Cruz for President Announces Michigan and California State Chairs."

Website: Ted Cruz for President

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Conservative California now there’s a paradox, this is one tough row to hoe, only Cruz can do it, he can take all 57 States.

BTW I know there are many conservatives in California, if they all get inspired and motivated the state like the country can be turned around... CRUZ 2016!

I agree .. if there are enough of us, we can change things around .. however, Ron Nehring’s appearance with such a dynamic Presidential candidate like Cruz .. well, it’s not encouraging.

Ron Nehring has never done anything for CA - I’ve lived here for many, many years, and Ron is a “moderate” .. not the firebrand that is needed to take this state back.

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