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He Said He Was An Undecided Iowan Until He He Received This Controversial Mailer From Ted Cruz.
Independent Journal ^

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016election; alta; canadian; cruz; cruzcrashandburn; election2016; ineligible; iowa; mercerpsyopsfail; moveonorgtactics; notready4primetime; ratcreeptactics; tedcruz; tedeffsupagain; texas; tomhinkeldey
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To: RoosterRedux

When a candidate gets desperate, his staff pulls out the stops.

And desperate people make mistakes.

...

Agreed. When I read this article I thought of how even great quarterbacks can make bad plays when they are in a desperate situation.


21 posted on 01/30/2016 3:18:30 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: springwater13

Do you really think Cruz supporters will switch to your guy after all the lies DT has campaigned against Cruz on? I am in Florida and if Trump is polling #1 here on 3/15 I will vote for whoever is #2, whoever that may be. If DT wins the nomination I will not vote for him. Politicians get my vote based on their records and temperament. DT has nothing in his record or temperament that qualifies him for the job.


22 posted on 01/30/2016 3:18:36 AM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: hoosiermama

You are probably right, but I like being *conservative*

:)


23 posted on 01/30/2016 3:21:07 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: libbylu

So?


24 posted on 01/30/2016 3:22:09 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Moonman62

I was just hearing the same thing about what the Denver defense was trying to do to Brady Sunday. Keep pounding him until he is thrown off his rhythm.


25 posted on 01/30/2016 3:23:58 AM PST by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: springwater13

I just read the stupid thing......DESPERATION!!!!!

This would make me so mad I would have changed my vote completely and instantly!


26 posted on 01/30/2016 3:24:49 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: libbylu

nobody cares


27 posted on 01/30/2016 3:25:17 AM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: springwater13

.....anf btw, I am so unimpressed with Rick Tyler, Cruz’s spokesman

He always looks downtrodden, rather unkempt, and is not very articulate


28 posted on 01/30/2016 3:26:28 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: springwater13

Whats this guy opening her mail... Thatsva federal offense... He better ask or a pardon from president cruz

Lighten up francis.

Is that all you got. It is a non issue among people who think.

Ted cruz scared ne in a mailer.... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Vote for trump you girly man


29 posted on 01/30/2016 3:28:28 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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Maybe they did it on the advice of, oh, some new advisor.

Senator Cruz -- Dump This Dumb S.O.B.!

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30 posted on 01/30/2016 3:30:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

No, I think Glenn Beck is doing a great job where he is. Keep up your great work for Ted Cruz, Glenn. At-a-boy! ;-)


31 posted on 01/30/2016 3:33:13 AM PST by r_barton (I'm a trumpeter for TRUMP, not one of the CruZEROS.)
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To: springwater13

How foolish his campaign was...


32 posted on 01/30/2016 3:34:20 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: DoughtyOne
It almost sounds like a dirty trick within his own camp. Makes me wonder what's going on.

I think back to Michelle Bachman's campaign that seemed to be rotting from within with bad tactics.

This and the video with Ted and Heidi chanting dollar amounts are SO BAD it makes one wonder if it's sabotage from within.

But you know what? If by late January Cruz hasn't cleaned up his campaign, how's he going to clean up DC?

It's way too late for Cruz to explain his way out of this. His campaign's donation solicitations have been over-the-top since before Christmas, and just keep getting worse.

33 posted on 01/30/2016 3:38:39 AM PST by grania
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To: pepsionice
This might have some positive reaction in places like FL or NY

You really think so? It not only attempts to shame the voter, it also lists the voting record of others. That means people's public but not advertised voting records are being sent to their neighbors. Can't imagine NY and FL folks, or anyone else, wants that invasion of privacy from a campaign.

35 posted on 01/30/2016 3:42:31 AM PST by grania
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To: springwater13

Cruz’ direct mail campaign has been unnecessarily expensive and, in my case, ineffective in persuading me to give him more money than before the incessant ads started.

Cruz, my preferred candidate even yet, has been taking some very bad advice from consultants.


36 posted on 01/30/2016 3:42:33 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: libbylu

Yeah, yeah.. you thought Romney was great but Trump is not conservative enough. Got it.


37 posted on 01/30/2016 3:45:13 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: teeman8r

“Is that all you got. It is a non issue among people who think.”

First you guys said it was fake

Then you said it was a dirty trick from Trump

Then you guys tried to cover it up.

Then you tried to shame people for talking about it.

Then you tried to spin it as a brilliant move because Democrats did it too.

Now you are demanding that no one should care, and that no one will.

I hope you all cleared your schedules this weekend, because you will need all the spin you can produce as people wake up and see this.


38 posted on 01/30/2016 3:48:35 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

Well said


39 posted on 01/30/2016 3:50:21 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: springwater13

What a major dumbass move by the Ted Cruz campaign. It rings of Hillary tactics. I’m for Ted first, Trump second, but this is just a plain retarded move.


40 posted on 01/30/2016 3:50:30 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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