Posted on 01/30/2016 2:55:27 AM PST by springwater13
As Iowans prepare to head to the caucuses on Monday for the nation's first votes in the presidential primaries, the campaigns are pulling out all the stops. The mailer sent out by one Republican campaign, however, might end up backfiring.
Tom Hinkeldey, a resident of Alta, Iowa, tweeted a photo (which was later deleted because it included his personal address) on Friday evening of a mailer Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign sent addressed to his wife, Steffany. The mailer was a large card printed to look like a manila envelope on one side and was labeled in all capital letters, "ELECTION ALERT," "VOTER VIOLATION," "PUBLIC RECORD," and "FURTHER ACTION NEEDED."
On the other side, the mailer said in red letters at the top, "VOTING VIOLATION."
Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler confirmed to IJ Review that the mailer was theirs in a phone call Friday evening, saying that the targeting had been "very narrow, but the caucuses are important and we want people who haven’t voted before to vote."
(Excerpt) Read more at journal.ijreview.com ...
It's the power of social media. Don't you get it? An angry voter in Iowa is infuriated over the tactic. He tweets it to his 200 followers, who each retweet it to their follwers, and so on.
Six hours later, a blogger/journalist in Texas writes a story about it. It goes to their 1000 followers, who then retweet it...
Please don’t give him any ideas. That could be next.
‘the media will talk about nothing else.’
Except for those trying to push another false narrative, its become too easy to see that the ‘media’ is 100% behind and promoting Trump. For all the TrumPets that ‘hate the media’ you are so deluded with the Pied Pipers magical music to see the real Trump promotion for what it all actually is.
‘Cruz’s people supposedly quit yesterday’
WOW, you are breaking a big story! Or maybe just more fake BS.
Show the published ‘story’ to us paste or link, or go stand in the corner for telling lies.
FWIW, the chanting one is real funny. And they do look like Ted and Heidi. And it's somewhat believeable considering the heavy-handed solicitations from the Cruz campaign.
They look like Ted and Heidi because they are Ted and Heidi :-) The contest entrants used real footage, manipulating and editing to create something entirely new, with the intent of ridicule. These bogus campaign clips have all the appearance of being real Cruz campaign material. Except, of course, that they aren’t.
One thing is certain, though. Even if Cruz, my favored candidate, is damaged and becomes a non-factor by the time of the Missouri primary on March 15, there is one candidate I definitely will not be voting for, and that is Donald Trump. Trump is a total embarrassment. I would vote for one of the other guys--i.e., the next-best overall social and constitutional conservative--before I would ever vote for Trump.
So, our secret ballot is not so secret.
No. I stand with ted cruz... Trump will negotiate with the gope... I want them gone.
Go ted !
Trump won’t negotiate with the gope once he’s in.....he’s already lining up his Oligarch thugs to hold positions...the gope will fold for whatever Trump purposes like a feather in the wind if he wins this....and so will the demorats.....it will be Trumps way no matter....
**Quite a few of Cruz’s people supposedly quit yesterday. I wonder if this is why?**
Good guess. I was just thinking the same.
Libbylu you have to know Trump is not counting on you!
It would bring me out of a sickbed in a blizzard to vote for the other guy
Iowa Election Law, on intimidation, page 82, 39A.2 Election misconduct in the first degree.
1. A person commits the crime of election misconduct in the first degree if the person willfully commits any of the following acts:
Duress. Intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, a person to do or to refrain from doing any of the following:
(1) To register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register to vote.
(2) To urge or aid a person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register to vote.
(3) To sign a petition nominating a candidate for public office or a petition requesting an election for which a petition may legally be submitted.
(4) To exercise a right under chapters 39 through 53
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/ElectionLaws/ElectionLaws.pdf
The text from the flyer reads:
You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses.
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First there's the accusation of a 'voter violation', then a follow-up notice may be issued following Mondays caucuses, and if you don't vote we will tell your neighbors.
Sounds like intimidation and threats to me.
It seems he would have the final say on it.
It just seems like such terrible advise.
That’s was I see too. Others don’t, but I don’t know how they can not see it that way. I couldn’t.
This is from the guy who claims he did not know he was a Canadian citizen until the Dallas Morning News pointed it out to him when he was 43 years old. He also forgot to list loans from Citibank and GS during his Senate run. Maybe he is not the most brilliant legal mind ever after all and occasionally does stupid stuff. The simplest answer is often correct.
Well, that’s a problem too.
Who is advising Ted?
Vote for Teddy or we will have to send the boys around. :-)
Yup
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