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Why did a Ted Cruz superPAC give $500k to Carly Fiorina? (from Aug. 2015)
MSNBC ^ | 8-4-15 | Rachael Maddow

Posted on 03/26/2016 11:54:50 AM PDT by bigbob

Rachel Maddow shows the paperwork that indicates Keep The Promise, a Ted Cruz-aligned superPAC, donated $500,000 to Carly For America, a Carly Fiorina-aligned superPAC, but what remains unclear is why.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; 2conservativejoy; 3wacamole; carlyforamerica; cubanmistresscrisis; donors; fiorina2016; keepthepromise; lyinted
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To: bigbob

It just dawned on me that Ted Cruz may have his own Bimbo Eruption Unit at work right now.


21 posted on 03/26/2016 12:06:04 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Mr Apple

That will be veddy interesting!

It’s never just about sex, is it? Usually it leads to other shady things.


22 posted on 03/26/2016 12:06:04 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: miss marmelstein

well here’s what is also interesting: there are several “KTP” PACs. The formatting doesn’t transfer so you can see their income and expenditures here:

http://www.p2016.org/cruz/cruzsuperpacorg.html

We all remember Lyin’ Ted going on about not taking big money and all? Well:

Keep the Promise I - $11,000,000 from Robert Mercer, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund.

Keep the Promise II - $10,000,000 from Toby Neugebauer, co-founder of Quantum Energy Partners, a Houston private equity firm.

Keep the Promise III - $15,000,000 from the Wilks family: $5,000,000 each from Farris and Jo Ann Wilks, and $2,500,000 each from Daniel and Staci Wilks. Farris and Daniel Wilks are brothers, based in Texas, who founded Frac Tech, and sold the firm in May 2011 for $3.5 billion according to Forbes.

So I guess one of the #10 million PACs didn’t mind having $500K shuttled over to Carly. But it would be interesting if Trump challenged Cruz publicly to answer this question. I suspect his “small money” donors would be suprised.


23 posted on 03/26/2016 12:07:17 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: eyedigress

We are wind surfing the dunes baby!


24 posted on 03/26/2016 12:07:45 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: bigbob

I watched the video. They did not give Maddow a plausible explanation. If donor’s money was used to keep someone silent; I would guess that a crime was most likely committed the people running one or both Superpacs. How could such an arrangement have been reached without some type of coordination between the candidates and the Superpacs which would also be illegal. We have entered some really strange territory here. Do-do—do-do—do-do—do-do.


25 posted on 03/26/2016 12:07:57 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: abigkahuna

all the campaign told Maddow is that some of their donors also liked Carly. Pretty weak.


26 posted on 03/26/2016 12:08:34 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
One of the women identified in the Cruz harem is campaign worker for Carly... I forget her name.
27 posted on 03/26/2016 12:09:55 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: fireman15

KTP 1:
President Kellyanne Conway
President of The Polling Company/WomanTrend since 1995. Practiced law but describes herself as “a fully-recovered attorney.” J.D. from The George Washington University Law School; B.A. in political science from Trinity College in Washington, DC. twitter

She’’s a nasty piece of work based on my impressions when she’s on the cable news shows. All pollsters are IMHO liars and manipulators.


28 posted on 03/26/2016 12:10:38 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Mr Apple

Do you have any evidence other than just wanting to believe the worst? Even the Enquirer is only reporting this a rumor to keep from being sued. This story is being reported from them quite differently than previous political scandals.


29 posted on 03/26/2016 12:13:41 PM PDT by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: bigbob

Well that answer doesn’t fly because they could donate directly to the Carly Pac and donate to the Cruz Pac so that answer doesn’t make any sense. Of course with that answer, the donors names are withheld or not given because it’s a “disbursement” Very shady indeed.

If it is to be a payoff...how does that work? Does the Carly pac then cut a check to Miss X to her bank account? Weird...And Carly, has she given an explanation as to whey the Cruz campaign showered her with cash?


30 posted on 03/26/2016 12:13:47 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Just mythoughts

Sarah Isgur Flores. Snarly’s DC area campaign manager.


31 posted on 03/26/2016 12:13:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: abigkahuna

LOL!

Give it hell!


32 posted on 03/26/2016 12:14:10 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: bigbob

How is Cruz supposed to answer a question about what a Super PAC did?


33 posted on 03/26/2016 12:15:13 PM PDT by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

He can’t. They own him.


34 posted on 03/26/2016 12:16:03 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: abigkahuna

Good questions. This was posted on twitter again and I thought maybe FReepers would have some thoughts. It may be unrelated to the present scandal but it didn’t take long for people to remember that it was never addressed.

These campaigns are pretty slimy affairs (pun intended)


35 posted on 03/26/2016 12:16:29 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
But the question remains, why was a half-million raised to support Cruz handed over to Fiorina's campaign?

The simplest and most logical answer is that Money from a Cruz PAC was being used to buy Fiorina's endorsement.

However, that may only be the cover for the real reason.

36 posted on 03/26/2016 12:16:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Scratch a liar .... catch a thief.


37 posted on 03/26/2016 12:17:12 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Buying Fiorina’s support is like buying Linda Graham’s support.

Ppphhhttt!


38 posted on 03/26/2016 12:18:52 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: bigbob
Several FR threads from back in the summer/fall 2015 about this topic.

cruz pac donates to carly fiorina back in 2015 site:freerepublic.com

39 posted on 03/26/2016 12:19:27 PM PDT by deport
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To: UCANSEE2

The simplest and most logical answer is that Money from a Cruz PAC was being used to buy Fiorina’s endorsement.

However, that may only be the cover for the real reason.

The endorsement answer makes sense if the disbursement was done in say Feb or March...but it was done last August when he didn’t need her endorsement and she didnt need her bills paid off. (yet)


40 posted on 03/26/2016 12:19:55 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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