Posted on 03/10/2016 1:52:20 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Ted Cruz dumped his last campaignspokesperson after he joked about Marco Rubio’s faith.
Now this… The Cruz camp’s latest spokesperson tried to stomp out the Tea Party. The Blaze reported:
Ted Cruz’s new national spokesman, who replaced ousted spokesman Rick Tyler, came under fire last week for once hiring illegal immigrants and abusing the H-1B program when he was chairman of the Republican Party of California.
However, Cruz’s new spokesman is now being exposed for an offense that Cruz supporters might find even more egregious: trying to stop the Tea Party movement.
In the spring of 2009 when Americans were told their government and big banks were “too big to fail,” Tea Parties began to spring up across the United States.
Night after night, audiences witnessed Americans taking back their government on live TV.
FOX News host and talk radio personality Sean Hannity headlined the Tea Party in his home city of Atlanta; FOX News provided wall-to-wall coverage of the Tea Party in midtown Manhattan; and FOX News’ Neil Cavuto covered the Tea Party in California, for which I served as the official event director and communications director.
The Tea Party was going strong except for one hitch: both myself and my event team received word that some inside the GOP were working to get the events cancelled.
One of those people was Ron Nehring, then-chairman of the California Republican Party and the man who just last week was named Ted Cruz’s new national spokesman.
It turns out, our Tea Party wasn’t alone in the obstruction.
“When we started the Tea Party in California, we expected that the GOP would open theirs arms and welcome us in,” said Dawn Wildman, founder of the California Tea Party Groups Coalition, responsible for several successful Tea Party rallies and tax revolts in California. “Instead, Ron Nehring and many other GOP leaders fought against us at every turn. They hijacked media at events claiming successes for themselves. They warned the rank and file to not join us.”
According to sources who spoke on anonymity due to their current jobs in state government, there were a series of threatening phone calls in 2009 from Nehring to legislators claiming that anyone offering aid and assistance to the Tea Party would become an “enemy” of the Republican Party.
The threats were enough to get Wildman and others to leave the party.
“The threats were so destructive that after that, I burned my Republican Party registration card and became a ‘no party preference’ voter,” said Wildman.
When I see Lerner, Koskinen, Jarrett, and Obama in jail, I will finally believe someone in Washington is serious about justice for the Tea Party. Else, Democrat or Republican in Washington - they’re all the same to me.
“One of the (many) founders of the Tea Party endorsed Trump. Her name is Debbie Dooley.”
Oh but not the so called Tea Party Leader, Jenny Beth Martin. She is for Ted Cruz all the way.
In my opinion she is also out for what she can get. She begs for money all the time to keep her private jet. Wonder how she feels today with her man not only clinging to Bush and Beck, but calling a massive amount of Americans dumb!:)
GO TRUMP!!
And you know that is exactly what will happen. Cruz will get dropped like a bad habit. TRUMP all the way.
That is not going to wear well with the people who are tired of the bushes.
“That’s because he is unfit to serve as President....he’s simply played the public well because that IS what he does...”
Right! As did Obama in 2007-2008. But that’s what politicians do; play with emotional, angry people, who are easily guided by their heart and not much their mind.
End of the day, if Trump becomes POTUS, he’ll fall in line with broader DC establishment agenda. Just like his predecessors.
Yes, Trump seemed clueless about many issues last night, but anyone who belongs to a cult has surrendered his critical thinking skills, assuming that he had them to begin with. Supporting him now seems bizarre to me.
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