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Team Cruz defends scheme to stop Trump at brokered convention: “It’s not cheating”
http://www.mofopolitics.com ^ | Dec. 12, 2015

Posted on 12/12/2015 1:47:07 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

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To: dragnet2

Hmmm...Was this Cruz super PAC the same super PAC which funneled $500,000 from Cruz’s super PAC to Fiorina’s super PAC?

Why....yes, indeed it is, D2!

FEC also confused why a Ted Cruz super PAC is donating to Carly Fiorina

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/17/fec-also-confused-why-a-ted-cruz-super-pac-is-donating-to-carly-fiorina/

[snip]Long before Carly Fiorina was this month’s “it” candidate, a super PAC backing Ted Cruz was hedging its bets on her.

People were left scratching their heads in July when Keep the Promise 1, one of a conglomerate of super PACs funded by deep-pocketed Cruz supporters (the others are cleverly named Keep the Promise PAC, Keep the Promise II and Keep the Promise III; don’t strain yourself, guys), revealed in its financial disclosures a $500,000 donation to Fiorina’s campaign.

Keep the Promise 1 had a healthy $10 million on hand from a $11 million donation from hedge fund CEO Robert Mercer as of the end of June. But it only spent $536,169. A little for legal services. A little for surveys. And a whole lot for Fiorina. (FIORINO!)


61 posted on 12/12/2015 2:26:22 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Didnt she used to be a Fox blonde?

You are correct. On many other cable channels as well as a political commentator.

62 posted on 12/12/2015 2:26:47 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: dragnet2

It is illegal for them to communicate or coordinate in any way.


63 posted on 12/12/2015 2:27:05 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: AuntB

Hmmm...


64 posted on 12/12/2015 2:28:04 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AuntB

That’s so weird.


65 posted on 12/12/2015 2:28:06 PM PST by nopardons
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To: reed13k

There are lemmings that facts like that don’t matter, just better not be anyone say anything about their Piper.


66 posted on 12/12/2015 2:28:59 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: cripplecreek; dforest; nopardons; LS; McGruff; miss marmelstein

I feel pretty certain that if the corruption machine were aimed at your guy, you would be screaming among the loudest.

Brace yourself, if Cruz doesn’t move pretty damn quickly into the GOPEE camp, the GOPE are showing him, by muscling TRUMP, exactly what they can do to Cruz, also.

Cruz will be next for the “Mississippi Treatment”, or not.

If it’s “or not”, you’re going to have a Cruz problem, explaining why the hell that’s true.

I know, it’s kind of a riddle.


67 posted on 12/12/2015 2:29:37 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: nopardons

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2700816/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2700836/posts?q=1&;page=51


68 posted on 12/12/2015 2:29:56 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

I see, it’s illegal for the super corrupt insider$ running the super PAC’s to not speak to the candidates they buy?

Got it!


69 posted on 12/12/2015 2:30:20 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RitaOK

The GOPE certainly do NOT want Cruz...they’ll take Rubio, though.


70 posted on 12/12/2015 2:31:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Anything that happens at a brokered convention isn’t cheating. Doing anything TODAY that helps make a brokered convention IS cheating


71 posted on 12/12/2015 2:32:46 PM PST by LostPassword
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I said his denying pacs was brilliant.

But he’s sure not a dummy. IQ of 156. Degrees in economics (great for a president!) and anthropology (which is why he understands as much about human nature and the world’s societies as he does)


72 posted on 12/12/2015 2:33:17 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB
Thanks for posting this reality.

This is why Trump is brilliant to tell the pacs that used his name to STOP! He does not need the cover of his cronies using a PaC to do the dirty work like the others are doing. Everyone knows they LOVE their dirty pacs or they’d tell them to STOP like Trump did.

Detractors piss and moan about Trumps honest, un PC words, while the other candidates let their pacs do their talking!

It is cover, so they can say what they want about Trump and never have to answer to it. Trump is the ONLY candidate being any where near REAL in this race.

THIS is the power/$ structure that Trump wants to bring down and if it is not stopped now, we have just had our last real election.

73 posted on 12/12/2015 2:34:01 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama has groomed CAIR to be THE voice of Islam in the USA as a dangerous political force in the USA)
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To: Salamander

You are absolutely correct. I have been a Cruz supporter from the start and he’s got about 10 minutes to give a full throated denial of this garbage.


74 posted on 12/12/2015 2:34:14 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz or Trump ’“No”’€â€â„)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Nicely played, COA.


75 posted on 12/12/2015 2:35:52 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Donald Trump is RIGHT! This is the kind of stuff you get when you are beholding to PACs and donors. It will be interesting to hear how Ted Cruz handles this. It is all part of his Apprenticeship! ;-)


76 posted on 12/12/2015 2:36:11 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: RitaOK

These are probably just test balloons and stink bombs looking to mix things up at the top. If we can all be calm and not fall into these traps, things will probably go just fine. It is all conjecture now. Single digit power brokers scheming to retain the power they deep down know they are about to lose. That’s all. UNLESS, we all fall for it and create an ugly top tier fight before a single primary has been held.

Mark my words, too, they are looking for obnoxious questions they can form to cause a mud fight at the next debate. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. Stay above it.

It is about the voters and about ideas. Ignore the schemes. They haven’t the power they think they have unless we hand it to them.


77 posted on 12/12/2015 2:37:00 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Okay, nice detective work; however, I did NOT post what you claimed I had. *snicker*
78 posted on 12/12/2015 2:37:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: AuntB

I agree he is smart.


79 posted on 12/12/2015 2:37:55 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Gator113
Kellyanne Conway who runs Cruz's Keep the Promise I super PAC

I believe this is the same Cruz super PAC who funneled $500,000 to Fiorina's PAC some weeks back.

Very odd.

80 posted on 12/12/2015 2:38:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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