Presidential hopeful to ‘Cruz’ into Bartlesville

Texas Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz will make Bartlesville the target of his campaign with an event at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in mid-August, officials have confirmed with the Examiner-Enterprise.

Cruz will be speaking in a joint event with Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Lyon Fine Arts Center on the campus of OKWU, located at 2201 Silver Lake Road. The rally is open to the public.

According to Dr. Everett Piper, president of OKWU, the university is excited to host the event.

“While Oklahoma Wesleyan University does not endorse a candidate for president, I am eager and pleased to serve as a venue to engage educate our community,” Piper told the Examiner-Enterprise on Wednesday. “In that respect, I am excited to host this event.”

Cruz, a tea party favorite, announced his candidacy for president in March. According to the Washington Post, during his announcement speech he embraced the goals of Christian social conservatives, military hawks and small-government tea partiers and illustrated the broad Republican coalition he is hoping to assemble.

He again made headlines on Friday when he attacked U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the Senate floor. Cruz accused McConnell of lying and working with Democrats to undermine Republican values. Cruz specifically accused McConnell of lying about a deal to give supporters of the Export-Import Bank an opportunity to revive it in exchange for votes for a trade bill. Cruz also spoke at a pro-life rally on Tuesday in front of the U.S. Capitol, calling on the federal government to defund Planned Parenthood.

Bridenstine is reportedly heading up Cruz’s presidential campaign in Oklahoma, and publically endorsed Cruz via an opinion piece on breitbart.com published on July 20.

Multiple phone calls and emails to Cruz’s campaign by the Examiner-Enterprise to seek comment about the Bartlesville visit have not been returned. The Aug. 13 rally marks the first time an active presidential candidate has visited Bartlesville.

"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

" Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.