Posted on 04/24/2016 11:47:35 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
In addition to "grass-roots" campaign workers, there are at least eight Super PACs backed by 'shadow elites' who are driven to defeat Donald Trump and they are banking on Ted Cruz. At least one of these super PAC leaders, Katie Packer of OPP, met behind closed doors at the RNC Spring Meeting this week in Florida. Packer states that a republican candidate should "uphold orthodox GOP ideology." This smacks of irony given her past allegiance with Romney/Ryan and Ryan's inability to uphold GOP principles as Speaker of the House.
The super PACs are calling, texting, emailing, lobbying, and all-out wining & dining the 2,472 delegates who will vote at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Elite super PACs directly interfere and influence delegates' decisions which is an encroachment and perversion of the electoral process. These deep-pocketed super PACs are funded by a small cadre of shadow billionaires. They appear to work in tandem with TeamCruz, yet just outside the confines of his official campaign to avoid scrutiny and violations from the FEC. After months of campaigning, the race boils down to a delegate battle funded by the shadowy money of a few elites, rather than the reflection of the caucus and primary votes.
While some super PACs were focused on advertising, they are currently playing a huge outside role in courting and flipping delegates for Cruz. The Our Principles PAC (OPP), run by Romney's 2012 deputy campaign manager -Katie Packer, is an organization developed exclusively for defeating Donald J. Trump. At the Spring RNC meeting in Florida, Packer distributed a four page plan to promote her delegate strategy.
OPP is the most well funded #NeverTrump super PAC. Funded by the Ricketts family -billionaire owners of the Chicago Cubs, OPP has spent $16,000,000 to defeat Trump. In addition to negative media advertising, they hire workers to distribute anti-Trump literature which can be found at precincts and state conventions. OPP's mission is to organize delegates and deploy any number of tactics with the goal of depriving Trump of as many delegates as possible in upcoming contests.
The culmination of the OPP effort is the utilization of staffers to target every state delegate bound or unbound. They seek to convince them by hook or crook to dump Trump at their respective state convention or in July at the RNC convention. Those already pledged to Trump after winning their state are being luxuriously lobbied to back Cruz on the subsequent ballots. The primary purpose of OPP, no matter the cost, no matter the ethics, is to ensure as few as possible delegates will be inclined to support Donald Trump.
Another anti-Trump super PAC, #NeverTrump, has focused on the logistics of the RNC convention in Cleveland. They have booked hundreds of hotel rooms in order to comp the targeted republican delegates. NeverTrump began as a grassroots group started by allies of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). They have endorsed Cruz in some states and Kasich in others, frustrating both candidates. NeverTrump is pushing Kasich in Maryland, and Cruz in Indiana. Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge funder, is another elite that has already wasted millions on negative Trump advertising to no avail. Now Singer is spending his millions scheming behind the scenes to reduce the numbers of Trump delegates that Donald Trump has earned.
Be forewarned. What is being done to Trump by destructive outside forces can also be done behind the scenes to Cruz at the convention. In the end, these same strategists and operatives manipulating this election cycle aren’t just alienating potential GOP voters. They are positioning to help the GOP lose the White House. Again.
“Jeb dropped out awhile back, so “warm spit” is no longer an option....”
I may be wrong, but I don’t believe Jeb ever “dropped out”. I think he only suspended his campaign, meaning he just pressed the pause button and is ready, willing, and able to re-appear when the GOPe wants to present him front-and-center.
WOW. Thanks for the info. I was only away for a few hours! Thank God and praise James Robinson. SOOOO much better here last night and today. So enjoyable, informative, great discussions, enlightening comments, I mean it. I KNEW something was very, very different and improved. Wow. JR never ceases to amaze me.
Hey, Kit - I think a huge portion of former Cruz supporters dumped him for Trump back when he blamed Trump for the rioting in Chicago. Americans can disagree on many things, but for a GOP candidate to NOT stand up for free speech, there’s a huge problem. I’ve always hated Cruz, but him standing with Soros, #BLM, etc., seemed to be a turning point in his pathetic, sleazy career.
Agree, completely.
Then it was the IA/Carson’s getting out lie.
And, finally....the delegate debacle.
Folks are finally waking up to Lyin Ted......thankfully!!
I agree but which attorney general is going to take on their party. Both the Republican and Democratic Party are complicit.
Is this another phony Trump tweet? There’s about 6,000 of them floating around and this has all the earmarks.
Right Madam,
Cruz supporters exited in stages, here’s what I remember-
1) Realization that Ted is Canadian born and not Texan by birth -ineligible
2) Cruz’s lack of support for 1st Amdm. after rioting Chicago BLM thugs
3) Ted’s New York values comment felt far beyond the state of NY
4) Ted’s defeat in The South & key battleground states- unelectable
5) Release of Melania’s modeling photo followed by a flimsy denial
6) Enquirer expose’ led to discovery: Amanda Carpenter’s exit timed & 500K transfer to Fiorino PAC. Circumstantial tweets lending plausibility to the NE allegations.
7) Championing of ‘Ted-victories’ in states holding voterless elections.
8) Trump’s yuge NY win knocking Ted out for a clean win.
9) Gloating over delegates poached from Trump winnings
10) Ted’s posturing with media growing worse: BECK, Levine, Rush
Why Rick Santorum's Ohio Delegate Fiasco Could Get Messy - ABC News - March 3, 2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3424267/posts?page=28#28
Freeper has evidence of Ted bribe.
I don’t know and don’t care. Santorum had the same super pacs Cruz has so he should have been on top of the delegate situation.
Here’s the deal, in a normal election, and Santorum was in a normal election, candidates rise and fall according to elections. In a normal primary, Kasich and Cruz would have dropped when they were mathematically eliminated.
But because there are billionaires backing Cruz and Kasich to stop Trump, to pass TPP, to keep the insider game going, they are running around helping the GOP steal delegates because their master plan is to get to a 2nd ballot and override the voters. No one could have seen this coming because no one would have suspected such evil corruption actually exists in our government.
But it does so here we are.
-- No one could have seen this coming because no one would have suspected such evil corruption actually exists in our government. --
Quite a few people see the government as a corrupt banana republic. One needn't look too far to find evidence of that.
So are you trying to say that Ted’s partnership with the cartel, that his cooperation with the GOP to steal votes is ok? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say because surely it’s not to absolve Cruz.
bkmk
No. I'm not trying to say that. I'm trying to say that it should not come as a surprise, and that it (as well as some really serious shady deals from the government) doesn't come as a surprise to many people.
Separately (more or less), the value to learning why Santorum lost delegates in Ohio is primarily to give appropriate weight to the critics who bring up what is claimed to be Trump's old tweets.
It is Not the same Party my late parents belonged to all their voting lives, and raised three kids to be good voting Republicans.
I to raised my two adult kids to be, Conservative, to value Families, respect one another and be successful and get good grades in school and DON'T BRING HOME A DATE, IF THEY COME FROM A DEMOCRAT FAMILY AND SMOKE...(wink~wink.. my son added that one!!!)
The house needs to be cleaned out and fumigated. FR will be better than ever without these people. The USA is in the fight for its life. But it’s all some kind of game to the Cruzers, stuck in 1980 (which is the language Cruz used to manipulate, instead of using the language that applies: globalism, sovereignty, world organizations taking over control of every facet of USA independence...Instead they are arguing Taft vs. Eisenhower. Those things were important, and are, but General Patton didn’t pause a war to settle who sleeps in the top bunk or who peels potatoes. If you stop for that, you will be CRUSHED and there will be no more NATION in which to ARGUE personal ideologies. I am a conservative. But the fight now is with GLOBALISTS, not hippies on college campuses. We’re fighting organizations like the WTO and the UN which WILL destroy the USA, treaties like TPP which will make failed treaties of the early 20th century look like tic-tac-toe. If we have no borders and no jobs, and what jobs we have are filled by an unlimited supply of Indians-—that is, the jobs that haven’t been offshored-—our LIFESTYLE is going to look like those cardboard houses on mountainsides in Bangladesh or somewhere. Cruzers live in a dream world. Fighting the last war. That’s why Trump is a visionary. He truly sees the 30,000 foot view.
You rested your case a long time ago. Trump has admitted many times openly about having to bribe people in business (he called it greasing the politicians - like Hillary).. so you think that it’s OK for him to admittedly bribe for his own purposes, but laments Cruz for lobbying for delegate votes? And! By the way! What he calls bribery in politics is political solicition for votes. Trump has been sued by more folks than anyone for a reason. I am not for any candidate before the convention. Bit I am against the constant personal attacks that I have seen on this forum. If you have specific cases of wrongdoing, then post them by all means. ‘I heard or I read’ means nothing to me. They are just itching ears. Now is the time to set all of the BS and bickering aside and try to reach common ground. If we don’t unify, then we will have a democratic president and the consequences that come with that.
bkmk
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