Posted on 01/26/2016 12:50:07 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....That $100,000 gift from Trump to the Boehner-allied super PAC was twice as big as his next-biggest contributions. [Trump's] given $50,000 .. to Karl Rove's American Crossroads (2010) [and $50,000 to] the pro-Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Kentuckians for Strong Leadership (2013)..."
(Excerpt) Read more at opensecrets.org ...
Even the highly Respected Jeff Sessions knows Rafael Cruz is NOT the right man.
Jeff Sessions: Clarity of Donald Trump’s Position on Trade Is Right as Americans Lose Jobs Overseas
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80%, the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement and the catalyst behind much of the rise of nationalist populism in this election cycle, told Breitbart News exclusively that he thinks there’s much about 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for voters to like when it comes to the issue of trade negotiations.
While Sessions is, again, not officially endorsing anyone in the 2016 GOP presidential primaries, his top aide Stephen Miller, the Washington Post reported on Monday afternoon, is joining Trump’s presidential campaign as a senior policy adviser.
Miller has been critical to Sessions’ efforts fighting open borders immigration plans and amnesty for illegal aliens pushed by the political establishment, and equally critical to Sessions’ key role in the war against open borders trade policies pushed by political elites.
Doing the same in New York or any other place the Dems hold the power. It is a cost of doing business.
If he becomes President, he won’t need their money and I predict he will make decisions based on the same way he decides what messages needs to be driven, what is right for the country at this point in time.
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Jeff Sessions: Without Ted Cruz, Amnesty Would Have Passed In 2013 w/ video
Sen. Jeff Sessions gave a full-throated defense of Sen. Ted Cruz at an event Friday in Daphne, Alabama. Cruz is facing attacks from Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and others over technical issues regarding amendments to a 2013 immigation reform bill which never passed.
"People need to remember this, because this election is going to decide, the crowd who pushed that bill," Sessions said. "Will they be in the White House, and allowed to push their agenda, or will we have somebody else?"......
Trump flat out states making deals with congress is the way to go and you spin it 180 degrees in the other direction.
Fascinating.
Wrong. Cruz has very few fellow senators who will do anything with him. He pisses people off as he is just like he was in college. You apparently like smart a—know it all’s as that is exactly what people say about him. I refuse to be around them as they are trouble.
So, you think Cruz is “a smart —s, know it all.”
How about Trump?
I asked them repeatedly to tell us what Ted has accomplished. I never get a reply.
Although Cruz looks good on paper, Trump has accomplished more and is better for the job IMHO
Nope, you are just looking at it standing on your head.
Exactly. And Cruz then made sure he was first to declare he was running so he could rake in cash. Cruz works both sides.He takes cash from Gay hoerliers and we have no idea what he said in private. He was for and against TPA. I am sorry I am no fan.
"On April 1, 2014, [Ted] Cruz introduced Senate bill 2195, a bill that would allow the President of the United States to deny visas to any ambassador to the United Nations who has been found to have been engaged in espionage activities or a terrorist activity against the United States or its allies and may pose a threat to U.S. national security interests.
The bill was written in response to Iran's choice of Hamid Aboutalebi as their ambassador. Aboutalebi was involved in the Iran hostage crisis, in which of a number of American diplomats from the US embassy in Tehran were held captive in 1979.
Under the headline "A bipartisan message to Iran", Cruz thanked President Barack Obama for signing S 2195 into law. The letter, published in the magazine Politico on April 18, 2014, starts with "Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law". Cruz also thanked senators from both political parties for "swiftly passing this legislation and sending it to the White House."
You were a Walker fan and most of us hoped you would get help. Here is your Info on how much Trump gave to each party and by year. This is FEC data.
http://mischafisher.com/donald-trumps-campaign-contributions.html
I haven’t given anything to the rnc for years. They send me junk membership and questionnaires requesting donations nearly every month. Some of these requests actually look like bills. They also call me a lot at all hours. I guess the Do Not Call list doesn’t apply to political calls.
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, [Ted] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction." As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress. Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas' sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, where the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws banning homosexual sex as illegal sodomy were unconstitutional.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which he wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to file suit on behalf of his daughter. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention. Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.......
You “hoped I’d get help” because I supported Scott Walker?
What are you - union affiliated, a union sympathizer?
Rafael continues to avoid getting a judgement on his Canadian birth. Why? /rhetorical
Isn’t that the truth? But it shouldn’t be rhetorical. Not very conservative of ‘’us’’ (not ALL of us) to just let this go to crap ‘because the democrats/ 0bama did it.
WTH?
I really don’t get this willful turning away from all that Cruz is. And the absolute fairy tale about who he, in reality, is not.
Who IS this guy? WHY does he have such a fanatical following? I don’t get it.
It’s like The Emperor’s New Clothes.
I suspect there’s more to come regarding our friend, Ted Cruz. We’ll see.
Wrong. Trump is 100% right about the current campaign finance system being a joke/wrong as all these PAC’s I have briefly mentioned are backing your second choice for Pres.
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Trump was as blunt back then as he is about other congressional beneficiaries who displease him now. "I think he should resign because he's stupid,": he said of Lee on CNN. "I mean, can you imagine!"
This year, the process of opening his wallet wide to underwrite for his own quest began in March with his only 2015 donations on file with the Federal Election Commission - $5,000 checks to the state Republican parties of New Hampshire and South Carolina, the sites of the first two primaries next year."
“Donald Trump - Federal Contributions to Republican Candidates and PACs, 1989 to present”
Well, that mean Trump also donated to another Senator we know.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2014/04/16/donald-trump-donates-to-ted-cruz
Cruz had no problem taking it!
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