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 Cruzâs 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 havenât voted before to vote."
(Excerpt) Read more at journal.ijreview.com ...
When a candidate gets desperate, his staff pulls out the stops.
And desperate people make mistakes.
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Agreed. When I read this article I thought of how even great quarterbacks can make bad plays when they are in a desperate situation.
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.
You are probably right, but I like being *conservative*
:)
So?
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.
I just read the stupid thing......DESPERATION!!!!!
This would make me so mad I would have changed my vote completely and instantly!
nobody cares
.....anf btw, I am so unimpressed with Rick Tyler, Cruz’s spokesman
He always looks downtrodden, rather unkempt, and is not very articulate
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
Senator Cruz -- Dump This Dumb S.O.B.!
Glenn Beck to Vote for Hillary if McCain is GOP Nominee
Glenn Beck - Why he would of voted for Hillary instead of John McCain
Glenn Beck: McCain would've been worse
Glenn Beck: I May have Voted for Hillary Clinton
Glenn Beck: 'I won't vote for Trump.' (Even if running against Hillary)
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! ;-)
How foolish his campaign was...
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, yeah.. you thought Romney was great but Trump is not conservative enough. Got it.
“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.
Well said
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.
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