Posted on 05/10/2012 6:33:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Former Alaska Gov. and conservative icon Sarah Palin endorsed former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate race Thursday morning.
Both Palin and her husband, Todd, pledge their support in a letter to Cruz, who hopes to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
“Your conservative principles, passionate defense of our Constitution and our free market system come at a time when these cornerstones of our freedom and prosperity are under attack,” Palin wrote in the letter, according to the campaign. “Our shared goal isn’t just to change the majority in control of the Senate, but to assure principled conservatives like you are there to fight for us.”
In a statement, Cruz said he was “humbled and honored” by the endorsement.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
Not true at all. Dewhurst is very conservative and has a proven reoord of getting conservative laws passed. Cruz has proven he goes negative even before he files the paperwork to run. And virtually all of his negative ads are false.
You must have some sort of resource for that accusation.
The TSA Bill was vetted and new language was written by Attorney General Greg Abbott. Abbott, a true Constitutional scholar, said the first language of the Bill was unconstitutional. The Lt. Governor joined Senator Dan Patrick in petitioning the Governor to ad the new Bill to the agenda of the Special Session. The Bill passed the Senate, but the House voted it down.
In the regular session, Dewhurst convinced 3 Dems to vote in favor of the Sonogram Bill, Zaffirini, Uresti, and Lucio. I couldn’t convince Jeff Wentworth, even taking 20 people to his office one day.http://www.journals.senate.state.tx.us/sjrnl/82r/pdf/82RSJ02-17-F1.PDF#page=2
Dont forget that this legislature strengthened property rights against eminent domain, passed voter ID, prohibited funding of PP and drivers licenses for illegals, as well as passed “looser pays” tort reform and gave the State the right to deport illegal aliens convicted of a crime after they’d served their time.
Dewhurst earned his money as a businessman. From scratch and in the tough energy years of the 1980’s and 1990’s. After playing basketball for Arizona, serving in the Air Force and the CIA.
Then, when he was 51, he ran for Land Commissioner in 1998, then Lt. Governor in ‘02.
Furthermore, Dewhurst is not a RINO like Lugar. He is prolife (Sonogram Bill, Choose Life license plate), profamily(our Defense of Marriage Constitutional Amendment), pro-law-and-order (Championed Jessica’s law), pro-second amendment (Castle law, defending right to carry). He’s anti-taxes.
He got donations because he’s a known conservative with a record of getting conservative laws passed.
Your statement is simply not true. Dewhurst is tough on immigration - The TSA Bill was badly written and the Attorney General helped re-write it for the Special Session, then the Lt. Governor pushed it through the Special.
In the Regular, we got voter ID, prohibition on drivers licenses and deportation of illegal criminals after they’ve done their time.
Cruz has questionable ethics. All I’ve seen so far is a young man running for office since 2005, and then 2 years attacking a good conservative citizen legislator while ignoring the dems.
Listen to Cruz try not to answer questions in this radio interview.
http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=1&podcast=joepagsshow&selected_podcast=5-9-12_joe_pags_HR1_1336610446_10407.mp3
He dances all around the question, until page gets irritated.
You can read the legal brief that calls him “Counsel of Record, here
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/uploadedFiles/Reuters_Content/2011/10_-_October/morrison—lanhamact.pdf
And here’s the wsj opinion piece that he claims “proves” his accusations against Dewhurst.
http://www.tedcruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2005-05-10-WSJ-taxes.pdf
Dewhurst was pushing for a state income tax?
No, that is one of the lies that Cruz tells. It was just the opposite.
The state was cutting property taxes, while expanding the franchise tax to business that had been exempted. The panel that the Governor appointed decided on a franchise tax based on gross receipts. Dewhurst objected, saying that would force companies that made no profit to pay taxes. He suggested that it would be better to only place the tax on profits and give credit for wages and benefits paid. Eventually, this is what happened with a credit for small business that make less than 300k.
thanks.
So the WSJ article was incorrect? It was a franchise tax increase, not an income (wage) tax?
Is that a correct statement?
The wsj editorial has it backwards. Our State Constitution prohibits an income tax.
We’ve had a franchise tax , before, but most businesses were exempt. There was never a proposal by the legislature to tax wages.
I know. I just meant we’re not voting status quo. We’ve voted for Dewhurst since the first time he ran. We’re not doing that anymore. We need new blood, imho.
Look Lady... I respect your right to support Dewhurst, but please quit trying to convince us he is a true conservative, because he is not one!
Dewhurst is like most typical Republicans, he gives lip service to conservative when he is running for office. Yes he does support some things we conservatives want, but when the situation calls for him to put all his chips in, he folds. I am tired of politicians like that!
So I am willing to give Ted Cruz his shot at the office. If Cruz proves to be just as bad as Dewhurst, then I will vote for someone else next time. And I don’t think I am alone in that thinking here on Free Republic.
I also respect what you do for a living, but I can see you are blinded by Dewhurst. The first negative ads I saw in this campaign came from Dewhurst and were directed at Ted Cruz, not the other way around.
So go ahead and bang your head against that Dewhurst wall all you want, but you are not changing my mind!
Shalom
We need ethical blood. We need proven strength. Dewhurst would be fresh blood in DC and we know he can get conservative legislation passed without cowtowing to the Left.
I will be curious to see where Dan Patrick goes, he is someone I respect on Texas politics. I will also be keeping an eye out for a Ted Poe endorsement. Sarah going for Cruse is big, if either Patrick or Poe do to then I will likely follow. If not then I will be wondering why not? What is the problem?
Dan Patrick wants to be the Lt. Governor and cannot get there with David Dewhurst standing in the way. What do you think he is likely to do?
Do you have any sources? I give sources, not emotional claims that I don’t back up. (including the one that *I* am the one that’s “blinded.”)
The first ads were from Cruz, as Joe Pags notes. Way back in November and they were all negative. I first spoke to Cruz and then to his staffers in November at the Texas Republican Women’s Convention.
Patrick has already endorsed Dewhurst.
thanks. I forgot about the constitutional amendment.
I appreciate your posts on here, I’m late catching up on this race.
thanks for the links also. I thought Cruz answered the Chinese question pretty well on the radio ad, though it didn’t seem to go well. Cruz said the american in the ad moved his manufacturing to China 20 years ago and that it was essentially a fight between two Chinese manufacturers, not ‘American’ jobs...
Here’s more on the Franchise tax http://www.texmed.org/template.aspx?id=6176
Please keep in mind that the franchise tax itself IS an income tax! They just can’t call it that in Texas!
Here’s more, in an article from 2006
http://www.taxfoundation.org/commentary/show/1493.html
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