Unbelievable – Ted Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal “Shaming Letters” To Iowa Voters…

conservativetreehouse ^ | 1/30/2016 | sundance

[20yearsofinternet]

The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.

The text reads:

"You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors' are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses".

In an effort to shame the recipient, the notice also informs the targeted voter their neighbors have also been notified of the recipients poor voting record.

*snip*

[LongWayHome]

Conservatism has been watered down to the point where the public has no real understanding of what it is. Is Paul Ryan a conservative ? John McCain ? These guys are not Russell Kirk. They have no center....look at the budget the GOP helped the dems pass. You can’t expect the public to think the GOP stands for anything after such a folly.

Trump is not offering conservatism as movement conservatives like to define it, but he’s offering a nationalist/populist creed which is in step with the times. Good or bad, that’s the space the conservative movement has left empty...and Trump is filling that hole.

[JennysCool]

Oh my God. Really. No one can be this dense.

[JediJones]

Do you support Cruz stopping his brow beating of voters?

It's up to his campaign, but these perennial no-show voters need tougher tactics to get them motivated. For anyone who actually thinks the country and their lives are going well enough for them to base who they vote for on nothing but THIS mailer, I envy them for their ignorant bliss. Hopefully they'll be proud of themselves when Rubio signs off on amnesty for the "Dreamers" and every other illegal.

[Texicanus]

That is what they all say.

Really, why would you not believe me?

[higgmeister]

I’m also not afraid of someone who happened to have dual citizenship at birth to a country he was too young to remember even being in.

It is not about you, Miss Jones. It is about the U.S. Constitution with the proscription of anyone with even the remote possibility of divided allegiance to our nation.

If there is even the slightest chance that a parent or others influenced a non-natural born child they must be considered ineligible.

No exception can be made. That could set a precedent to allow a candidate in the future to be elected that clearly does have a divided allegiance. Blame James Madison but that is our reality.

[xzins]

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Stephen Wright

[gleeaikin]

Unfortunately Cruz seems to echo the Doc Martin personality charm, without the underlying kindness.

[xzins]

Close out with Wright. ..lol

Both of us

We’re getting old.

[jpsb]

Two string are about to walk into a bar when they see the No Strings Allowed sign. Damn what are we going to do says one string to the other. I know lets tie ourselves up and fray our ends so we don't look like strings. So they did that and walked into the bar.

The bartenders looks at them suspiciously and asks the first String "Are you a String?" And the string answers "No I'm frayed knot."

[Gator113]

Thanks for all the laughs .

[P-Marlowe]

LOL. Thanks, I needed that.

[JediJones]

Please don’t confuse Republicans with conservatives. You can’t “water down” conservatism. It’s a set of bedrock principles. A liberal Republican isn’t “watering down” conservatism, he’s watering down the Republican party. McCain, Ryan, McConnell, etc. obviously have nothing to do with conservatism. That’s why there’s a Tea Party wing in Congress. They are the conservatives. There has been a Rockefeller and Goldwater wing in the Republican party for a long time.

Of course I don’t expect the public to think the GOP as a whole stands for conservatism. That’s why Cruz’ campaign focuses on him being a Tea Party conservative who criticized his own party.

Movement conservatives don’t “like” to define conservatism a certain way. It HAS a definition of its own. That’s why you have to use words like populism and nationalism to describe what Trump is posturing himself as. He’s not a conservative. He’s not very consistent on anything at all though. Rah, rah, America great, I’ll make everything better, I’ll run things better and smarter, the establishment hates me but now they like me, yippie dippie doo...he offers up a lot of empty, substance-free platitudes and sells it on his brand name recognition.

[onona]

So the Trumpkins are going to take the moral high ground here, while they constantly engage in juvenile bullying, insults and ridicule like the above? Yeah, right.

Dude, you have Cruz SUPPORTERS here on this thread noting how stupid this idea is.

And this is B.A.D.

[JustaCowgirl]

Oh my God. Really. No one can be this dense.

Apparently they can. It boggles the mind.

[gleeaikin]

You let this one slip and the next thing you know The Arnold will be running for President. And after gay marriage, can we expect polygamy?

Regarding the generally unpopular opinions of Jedi Jones, no point anyone wasting more time trying to convince him. Time better spent getting on Twitter and Facebook to warn the world about these potentially brown shirt tactics getting approved by the candidate, or promoted by the candidate.

[JediJones]

Cruz is a “natural-born” citizen so what you say is irrelevant. Natural-born subjects in Britain included ones born to British parents outside of the country. It’s also wrong and over-the-top about “allegiance.”

The Constitution isn’t so paranoid about foreign influence. You only have to live in the U.S. 14 years to run for president. You can live somewhere else for 50 years and come back and run for president. So, no, the Constitution set out a few standards, but there isn’t some perfect, consistent message behind them. That’s just your projection. It’s not in the text or the context. If it was, you would have to live in the U.S. a lot longer than 14 years to be eligible.

[Suz in AZ]

I knew someone who got a shaming letter like this a couple of years ago and I was angry for the neighbors.

Tough love? Seems you see voters as children. Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t always mean you SHOULD. That “targeted” mailing seems to be going viral. Oops.

Cruz campaign seems to have the EQ of Mr. Bean now. Very sad.

[higgmeister]

It’s not in the text or the context. If it was, you would have to live in the U.S. a lot longer than 14 years to be eligible.

You also cannot be born in Saudi Arabia or Iran. See, it is not Canada we are worried about is it?

[GeaugaRepublican]

The 19 million, means that Ted spent about half of the money below, plus direct candidate funds. We expect the quarterly filings due 1/31, which I guess will appear on Monday. Can’t wait to see the money flow!

Cruz’ SINGLE DONOR (OR FAMILY) SUPER PACS
KEEP THE PROMISE I Location: PORT JEFFERSON STA, NY 11776 $11,007,096, Robert Mercer of Renaissance Technologies. Here is more on Renaissance Technologies

Keep The Promise IIl Super Pac, contributing $15 Million Wilks Brothers

Keep The Promise II Super Pac, contributing $10 Million, TOBY NEUGEBAUER representing one of the largest campaign donations ever made of this type donated on 4/09/15

http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00575423&cycle=201