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.
And that tells you all you need to know about who these super PACS actually serve.
Every million wasted is a million they can’t funnel to Hillary.
Pray America wakes
“Blind allegiance to a failing candidate . . . “
Beautifully put, and may I say one more thing to these who are blindly allegiant. If Donald Trump had not entered this race, if so many of us had not cast our ballots for Donald Trump, none of this would be exposed!
And then, once again, we the base of the GOP, frustrated and upset, unsure of exactly what happened, almost all of us having voted for other candidates, would again be casting our ballot for someone we absolutely do not want, probably Jeb Bush, possibly Mitt Romney again, hoping this candidate might the lesser of two evils.
Donald Trump is not the monster here, he exposes monsters.
Keep in mind, Jeb Bush said he did not have to win the primaries to win the nomination. Of course, he would have preferred to keep up the charade, but Donald Trump has made this impossible, and now we know just how little regard our party leaders have for us, how little we matter, except to get whipped up every two years to go to the polls to keep the democrats out of office.
But just how are the democrats any worse than these corrupt lying hypocritical traitors?
We have a chance to stop this, and it cannot be stopped with Ted Cruz, it has become apparent he is a part of this charade, the insider’s joke, and not the solution to ending this at all.
Exactly.....
The Sea Island Resort meeting in Georgia likely has a great deal to do with this delegate poach plan.
If this doesn’t work and Trump wins, remember that the Google executive has paid 128 visits to the WH and Google will be eager to help ensure an acceptable occupant for 2016.
Yes indeed, and may all the loyal Trump delegates have a pleasant little get-away, wined and dined, and living in luxurious quarters for little while at their expense!
These charlatans count on you making certain reasonable assumptions. But they talk in code, redefining common terms to mean something else - except they don't share their definitions with the general audience.
I have a visceral dislike of Cruz, have had for months.
the ends justifies the means eh Ted?
You have it exactly right.
If wealthy elites are going to spend a BILLION dollars on manipulating elections, why bother with elections. Have small controlled caucuses. It’s much more time effective and cost effective to these folks and then they won’t have to worry about the popular vote not reflecting the delegate votes.
BUY DELEGATES.
Why waste hundreds of millions on ineffective advertising?
Just buy the delegate. Everyone has their price. Congress has proven this.
JBW1949:”If Cruz is given the nomination, Hillary wins big time...’
Talisker: “And that tells you all you need to know about who these super PACS actually serve.”
Sadly, you are 100% correct.
The GOPe is supporting Cruz for now, trying to defeat Trump.
GOPe is in bed with the Democrats for a Hillary presidency.
See:
Tech billionaires (major Dem donors) plot with GOP leaders at exclusive island resort to stop Trump
Just give the actual name of o e delegate you contend was bribed, and the form of the bribe - how much money changed hands, what was the name of the person doing the bribing, etc.. If you personally witnessed it happen, then this should be easy for you.
But it is instructive to know that Ted Cruz is nothing but a tool of the establishment GOP. I once had high hopes for Ted Cruz as an up-and-coming conservative but the blinders are off.
I cannot envision ever supporting Ted Cruz for any political office again. He appears to have shown his true colors.
IMHO, if the GOPe and Cruz keep it up and denies the presumptive nominee his hard-earned position as the people’s choice, it’s going to get really nasty as the Republican Party collapses onto itself. I suspect there are millions of Trump supporters who will refuse to support Republicans in November, all the way down to their local dogcatcher.
That’s because the general consensus seems to be, “Hey, we’re headed for a civil war anyway. It’s the Uniparty, and I refuse to reward them by voting. Let’s get this thing over with when Hillary comes for the guns.”
I suspect the GOP thinks they can deny Trump the nominee position and STILL keep their day jobs as elected politicians. BOY, are they in for a surprise. LOL. It won’t matter if they’re RINOs or true conservatives: They’ll fall in November like dominoes, all the while screaming, “WHAT?! What just happened?!!” I really don’t think they realize JUST how mad people are. Any Republican not supporting Trump at this point is not safe in November, even if their Democrat opponent is a Socialist-From-Hell. Yes, the anger at the GOP is getting to be that bad.
Keep up the fight, guys. Send your postcards every Monday. The more messages these idiots get in their mailboxes, the harder it’ll be for them to stay in denial about how serious this is.
Go create an anonymous account on Twitter and get involved in spreading the word. Follow ONLY the Trump supporters... it has grown to millions , i suspect, as the public gets more and more pissed off at what’s happening with the delegate buy-offs. Download the postcards that are floating around on Twitter.
Post Offices everywhere are out of their postcard supply, so it may be necessary now to make your own. People on social media are creating their own and sharing. Create a Dropbox account, update your AV software, buy some Avery perforated postcard paper at Walmart, and download the pdf files from Twitter. That guy Bill Mitchell has a supply, i think.)
And think about the postcards like this, too: The postal workers can read them, as well as the office staff of the recipient. You’re not only speaking to the recipient, but you’re also speaking to lots and lots of working-class people who need to be educated!
We have been calling the GOPe and the democrats the “UNIPARTY”...
I say we could correctly rename them the “POLITBORO”....
I pray the voters tomorrow will shut these two clowns out. They’re fighting the people yet some voters are deceived.
Kinda funny how people once accused Donald Trump of being the stalking horse in this election.
If they deny Trump there will be a 3rd party run even if it’s just a write-in campaign. And I believe he can win.
B_G_S, I know that you’ve only been here for a little over a month so maybe no one has said this to you but ...
...when you’re posting URLs, it would be helpful to the reader if you could post them as hyper-links/hot-links so we could just click on them to go there. This would be particularly helpful while we are on an iPad or smartphone.
Thanks
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