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Senator Ted Cruz 2016 : ABANDON the Political SUICIDE of Increasing H1B Visas (An Open Letter)
Patton@Bastogne ^ | 2015-11-02 | Patton@Bastogne

Posted on 11/02/2015 8:44:09 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne

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Monday, 2015-10-15 @ 11:45 AM-EST


Senator Ted Cruz, Texas
2016 Republican Party Presidential Candidate


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Senator Ted Cruz, you must avoid the deadly "political suicide" regarding H1B Visas that will soon erupt as a MAJOR issue in the 2016 Presidential Campaign.
Your continued association (as the voters see it) of supposedly wanting to increase H1B Visas by an "insane" 500-percent will possibly KILL your presidential candidacy.




Senator Ted Cruz, you don't know me from Adam, so please allow me to assure you that I have your very best interests at heart.

First, congratulations with your climb into a solid third-place with the Monmouth Poll reporting you at 15 percent, and candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump at 28 and 20 percent, respectively.

Contrary to Britt Hume's mendatic intellect, you have a stunning parade of "great accomplishments", both as Texas's junior Senator and as a Presidential candidate.



I've had the honor to meet, talk, and enjoy dinner with your father, Pastor Rafael Cruz in Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday, 20 June 2015 (I'm the gentleman wearing the red shirt). I came to your father's his side while he was harrassed by confused supporters who were alarmed over your first TPP-TPA vote.

"Toby" in your Dallas-area office will confirm to you that I worked day-and-night for almost a week defending you during the "TPP-TPA debacle".

My fellow Free Republic colleagues would confirm that I (at great derision) defended you regarding TPP-TPA.



I am NOT a career politician, or for that matter, a career "political campaign camp follower", looking for a photo, future Washington office job, or even an audiograph.

Rather, I am a Senior Aerospace Mechanical Engineer who's worked on the U.S. Space Shuttle program, and many, many other electronic system projects over the last twenty (20) years.



Senator Ted Cruz, I earned my Mechanical Engineering degree (BSME) over a ten-year period, attending night school, working full-time, and raising a family with four children.

It was a Herculean effort, Sir.



And today, I am an unemployed engineer in the midst of a GREAT national recession-depression. There are perhaps 250,000 other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) folks like myself who CANNOT find a job in America.

What's the biggest reason ? The million-plus H1B Visas allowed by the evil "Washington Cartel" and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Cheap Labor Express".



A perfect example is Disney World (Orlando) who FIRED 250 American Computer Programmers ... and FORCED them to train their replacements from India and Pakistan.

This is morally CRIMINAL.



"Who" will stand with "us", Senator Ted Cruz ?

"We" ask YOU to, Sir.



In closing, Senator Ted Cruz, I again recognize that you don't know me from Adam. Politics is a "blood sport".

Please accept my counsel as King David trusted Ahithophel's. Frankly, those who advise you to continue supporting a 500-percent increase in H1B Visas are as Hushai. Senator Cruz, both you and Pastor Rafael know how Hushai's bad advice cost Absalom his future kingship.




I have included (below) images representing the great efforts (as a non-paid grassroots activist) on behalf of your presidential campaign.

This included personally organizing the successful "Ted Cruz Florida Grassroots Leadership Conference" in Orlando this past 18 July 2015. David Sawyer and "Cindy" will confirm my leadership roles.


Finally, although I am currently unemployed, I AM NOT (under ANY circumstances) asking to work for your presidential campaign (or any Ted Cruz affiliated PAC) in a paid position. This letter is absolutely NOT a "quid pro quo" correspondence.


Respectfully,


Douglas A. Coggeshall
Senior Aerospace Mechanical Engineer
www.Engineer-Excellence.US


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KEYWORDS: clubforgrowth; h1b; tedcruz
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1 posted on 11/02/2015 8:44:09 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Any candidate supporting the expansion of the scam that is the H1B visa will not get my vote period, no matter who they are.

This program is a wholesale fraud and is to skilled workers what illegal immigration is to unskilled.


2 posted on 11/02/2015 8:46:38 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Go Cruz! I’m already fed up with GOP Chamber of Commerce shills smearing American tech workers.
And it’s gonna get worse. Americans shilling for foreigner workers can go live with them.
To h*** with Obama and his GOP-e butt buddies!


3 posted on 11/02/2015 8:48:56 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: HamiltonJay

Well said ... I hope that Senator Ted Cruz reads and fully understands our grave concerns on this matter ...


4 posted on 11/02/2015 8:49:29 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: tumblindice

You do know don’t you, that Cruz is for increasing the H-1B visas to hire foreign workers? What’s this Go Cruz stuff?


5 posted on 11/02/2015 8:51:32 AM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

What are you a campaign staffer? Geesh!


6 posted on 11/02/2015 8:53:17 AM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: HamiltonJay

I think he is stuck.

I don’t know his personal views, but it seems his outward political views are governed by the puppet masters.

It’s a real problem that may be broken and solved when Trump finally breaks the dam.


7 posted on 11/02/2015 8:56:15 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Catsrus

“You do know don’t you, that Cruz is for increasing the H-1B visas to hire foreign workers?”

Sadly this is true. I was the one who early on coined the phrase “Ted Cruz Accept no substitute” then Cruz voted for TPA, and the Corker Bill. Ted Cruz has no plan to deport the millions of illegals in the USA. His plan is to let them all stay and legalize them but no citizenship. We all know how that will work out. I had to look at his judgment because I fully expect Cruz to back the TPP. Its a problem that the Cruz at all cost supporters seem able to ignore. IMO Ted is stuck at about 7% in most polls because of these types of stances.


8 posted on 11/02/2015 9:06:12 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Catsrus
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What makes you think that I'm a Ted Cruz Presidential Campaign staffer ?

I guess that's a legitimate question.

"No" ... neither at the national or state (Florida) levels.

I do NOT seek such a position, nor would I accept it.


I am a "simple" Senior Aerospace Mechanical Engineer, who, even though I frequently stumble, tries to follow Jesus Christ, I love my country, the United States of America, love the Constitution and would defend it to my death ...

I started organizing a "Ted Cruz Florida Grassroots" network on my on in April 2015, without asking "permission" from the self-appointed "political hacks" who challenged me for a "permission note from my mother".

Dittos for my organizing a nationwide "Impeach John Boehner" overpasses rally in January 2015.

I just did what needed to be done, perhaps like John Wayne in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence".

America's liberty has always depended on individual freedom and INITIATIVE ... at Bunker Hill, the Alamo, and Omaha Beach.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it ...


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9 posted on 11/02/2015 9:09:23 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Patton@Bastogne

He should drop that, he does not need to back that. You can talk to people who have really been hurt by this. As one person told me, his wife is one of the best out there but the employers go for one of these others.


10 posted on 11/02/2015 9:10:01 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: All
This is what we're supposed to think TPP is all about.

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Republican votes for this atrocity are even more horrendous since Obama calls the TPP deal "central" to his second-term legacy, as well as to his "foreign policy" and "economic" agendas.

The text of the crucial vote which gave Boobamba fast-track authority on TPP was so classified, not even members of Congress were allowed to read it. Republicans voting in secret to insure Obama's legacy should be relegated to the trash heap of history---not running for president.

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PONDER THIS--TPP is best understood against the backdrop
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share: foreign donations, lucrative insider trade deals from untapped resources, energy deals, telecom deals, arms sales, consultancies, million dollar honorarium...and so on and so forth.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.

11 posted on 11/02/2015 9:11:43 AM PST by Liz
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To: Catsrus

Trump used to be a New York lefty, or some here (yourself perhaps) might say he still is a NY Republican, at best.
Trump has changed and he is still changing.

Politicians take a lot of flak because they seem to change their positions to please voters.
Of course they do. Their beliefs are shades of gray that change from day-to-day.
Denying that is as naive as saying, “Elections! They’re just `popularity contests’ ... “.

The body politic and the candidates have a symbiotic relationship. They change and we change.
Like Trump, Cruz is changing from day-to-day.

“What’s this Go Cruz stuff?”

Let me put it another way:

`Go Ted Cruz!’


12 posted on 11/02/2015 9:13:30 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Here are the cosponsors of I-squared. Anyone see Cruz on the list? Not me. Mike Lee curiously is.
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]* 01/13/2015
Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]* 01/13/2015
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]* 01/13/2015
Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]* 01/13/2015
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]* 01/13/2015
Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] 01/16/2015
Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] 02/25/2015
Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] 02/25/2015
Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] 02/26/2015
Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO] 03/09/2015
Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] 03/17/2015
Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] 04/30/2015
Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL] 05/14/2015
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13 posted on 11/02/2015 9:14:24 AM PST by libbylu (It is no longer right vs left. It is right vs wrong.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

He may be stuck politically on that, but its a non starter for me... I am sick and tired of the flagrant lies around this program. H1B’s intent is to allow a foreigner to take a job when no american can be found able to do it... there is ZERO reason that folks on H1B visas are writing java, html, c, c#, working in QA or as system or network administrators... NONE.

THere is no shortage of domestic talent. This law is violated wholesale, and no one does a damn thing about it.


14 posted on 11/02/2015 9:15:52 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

I was feeling sorry for Cruz.

And us, we are the big losers here, cuz Cruz is a good, smart, guy.

HB-1 isn’t the big issue for me, but yes, you’re right, I can’t imagine him breaking the bonds that tie him into a non viable candidate.


15 posted on 11/02/2015 9:19:30 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne; Liz; Georgia Girl 2

That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it

BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!


16 posted on 11/02/2015 9:21:25 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Balding_Eagle

I work in IT, I have been watching the flagrant violation and lies about H1B grow and grow over my career, its ludicrous the claims that these politicians make trying to justify this program.

The law as written is fine, but the law as written is ignored wholesale. The claim that they need that to keep the Harvard grads, is nonsense, that’s not what the program is for! H1B is purely for being able to hire a foreigner when you cannot find a qualified US candidate to do the job, it is not intended or written so you hold onto top talent that happens to be foreign born.

The politicians lie, the business folks lie, everyone lies about and abuses this program its a disgrace and no one who supports it will get my vote. I like Cruz, but if he supports anything but contraction of the H1B program he won’t get my vote.


17 posted on 11/02/2015 9:24:35 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

“H1B is purely for being able to hire a foreigner when you cannot find a qualified US candidate to do the job, it is not intended or written so you hold onto top talent that happens to be foreign born.”

And believe most of them are not remotely top tier talent either.


18 posted on 11/02/2015 9:25:48 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Right. They are here to be given something, not to earn it.


19 posted on 11/02/2015 9:32:01 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Patton@Bastogne; ConservingFreedom

H-1B - Kill it!


20 posted on 11/02/2015 9:33:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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