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To: McGruff
"These mailers are common practice to increase voter turnout," said Matt Schultz, the campaign's Iowa state chairman and a former Iowa secretary of state. "Our mailer was modeled after the very successful 2014 mailers that the Republican Party of Iowa distributed to motivate Republican voters to vote, and which helped elect numerous Republican candidates during that cycle."

Well, I wouldn't have done it. I think it's a dumb idea, and it could backfire. And I'm a Cruz supporter.

10 posted on 01/30/2016 4:48:10 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: Charles Henrickson

CNN is now covering this.....


12 posted on 01/30/2016 4:50:41 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: Charles Henrickson

I’m also a Cruz supporter and an elected official in my tiny Georgia county. This was sheer stupidity on Cruz’s part. People are very sensitive about this and don’t get the distinction between public record of whether you’ve voted and how you voted. I learned this in my first conversation with a neighbor and his hostile reaction to merely mentioning what is and isn’t a public record. Cruz not only turbo-charged this hostility with what looks like a Gestapo tactic, but IMHO lost many likely voters to other candidates. Totally unnecessary. As a donor, I’m pissed. What’s next, calling voters and telling them there’s a warrant out for their arrest unless they vote or donate to the campaign?


28 posted on 01/30/2016 5:01:19 PM PST by Bulldaddy
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I was a Cruz supporter, but that "mailer" is a freaking insult. I'd send it back with "FU" scrawled across it.

Cruz has a knack for pissing off my wife too with the constant email spam. Cruz' campaign is like a virus and we had to resort to blocking his domain names.

38 posted on 01/30/2016 5:31:26 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Not could, but has. And the blowback is still mounting.
44 posted on 01/30/2016 6:14:46 PM PST by Company Man (Keep Calm and Carry.)
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