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Billionaires fund anti-Trump delegate push
Politico ^ | April 12, 2016 | Kenneth P. Vogel

Posted on 04/12/2016 11:24:32 AM PDT by C19fan

First they spent tens of millions trying to boost their favorite presidential candidates, then they poured cash into ads attacking Donald Trump, and now some of the biggest donors on the right are turning their attention to the delegate fight. Anti-Trump billionaires are funding ground operations in an increasing number of states to try to ensure the selection of national convention delegates who oppose Trump. The strategy is being executed by the anti-Trump Our Principles PAC, which has a stated goal of blocking the bombastic billionaire from clinching the GOP presidential nomination before the party’s convention in July.

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KEYWORDS: 2016; antitrump; billionaires; potus; trumps
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This is the PAC with Ricketts, the owner of the Chi Cubs, and hedge funder Paul Singer money behind. it. Here is the FEC filing:

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/267/201603209011705267/201603209011705267.pdf

1 posted on 04/12/2016 11:24:32 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

All I can say is, “Get a rope”!!!


2 posted on 04/12/2016 11:26:09 AM PDT by SoCalConservative
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To: C19fan

How about the issue of turning away Trump people and double printing opportunities to vote for Cruz, are they in in that?


3 posted on 04/12/2016 11:27:19 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: C19fan

but Trump was not among them because he was too busy tweeting at the haters and losers,” said Miller...

Hey guys!!! We’re HATERS and LOSERS. /s

I say we burn down this mother @#$@#$@#$ing party to the ground. Hasn’t been worth @#$@#$ in a while anyway.

New party. New name. Unless Trump can make Republican a respectable word again.


4 posted on 04/12/2016 11:32:25 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: C19fan

The Cheap Labor Express is determined to prevent the citizens from electing a
President who will enforce the laws or secure the borders.


5 posted on 04/12/2016 11:33:03 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Globalists ROCK for Cruz!

Cruz brings down the REPUBLIC by fraud, snorts about it and prayerfully says, “Amen”. LOL!

(So do his flock of geese doing the dirty work on the ground.)

These geese call committing fraud “God’s work”. “Amen.”


6 posted on 04/12/2016 11:33:42 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: C19fan

“funding ground operations”

BRIBING DELEGATES .....
business as usual

all politicians are SCUMBAGS


7 posted on 04/12/2016 11:36:49 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: RitaOK

Kasich aleeady got his Soros cash. Has Cruz got his yet?


8 posted on 04/12/2016 11:37:35 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: C19fan

They don’t want him in THEIR club. He’s from the wrong side of their social tracks. Its that basic.


9 posted on 04/12/2016 11:37:55 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: dp0622

Name: People’s Populist Party
Symbol: Pitchfork
Motto: Yeaaaaaargh!


10 posted on 04/12/2016 11:39:30 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: Nickname

ROFL. lol. I actually did lol at that one.


11 posted on 04/12/2016 11:40:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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12 posted on 04/12/2016 11:42:34 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Sasparilla

So, what do we think Cruz is getting from the globals entrenched and running the Republican Party, the open borders and North American Union crowd?

Cruz has no legitimate path to the nomination, but fraud. He has to know and understand that.

And, he losed in November, so what’s the price tag for playing the mule for the increasingly Marxist Plantation owners/donors of the R Party.


13 posted on 04/12/2016 11:43:41 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: C19fan
An open letter to America from the Pennsylvania Veterans Party of America Chair Gary Garvine: This is why to vote for Third Party: The biggest objection to voting for a Third Party is the “wasted vote” argument — the idea that if you vote for someone who will not win, then the vote does not count. Voting for a third party, contrary to popular belief, is not a wasted vote. It’s a chance to tell the country — and perhaps even the world — what your vision of government and society really is. But how do most of us vote? Most of us vote the “lesser of two evils” — a defensive vote, rather than an offensive one. So what happens after you vote the defensive vote? Well, then you have sold out your personal beliefs. You have become a political prostitute. You aren’t standing up for what you believe in by voting “the lesser of two evils.” I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of being a political hooker. If you think the Republican or the Democrat really does best mirror your beliefs, by all means, vote for that candidate. But if you don’t, and you still vote for them, you’re helping to preserve the status quo you probably despise. So What’s the Point of Voting? We vote to tell everyone else which choice best represents the direction which we want the country to go. When you vote, you gain a certain power that a non-voter doesn’t have; the power to change America. Hence voting lesser evil sends the wrong message; it’s sending a message of compromise. In effect, a defensive vote says “I will settle for a good America, not the best America possible.” I urge you not to settle. In other words, if you want change, then create change. The history of third parties in America is that they serve as the vanguard for new ideas. It is these ideas that make the world go round. If a Third Party begins to draw votes, one or both of the two big parties steal their ideas. The most successful third party in the 20th Century was the Socialist Party. While never winning any significant elections, their small but growing vote totals were a threat to the Democrats. Thus the Democrats, and then later the Republicans, adopted piecemeal every major tenet of the 1916 Socialist Party platform. So rather than waste your vote on Democrats or Republicans, cast a meaningful ballot that clearly says what you believe. ‪#‎VPA‬ ‪#‎VPPA‬ ‪#‎VPofA‬ @VetsPA www.vpofa.org www.veteranspartyofamerica.org www.chriskeniston2016.com
14 posted on 04/12/2016 11:44:45 AM PDT by TMSuchman (State Chairman for the Veterans Party of America & Mo. Let Am. hear other voices)
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To: RitaOK

Sorry. cold fingers and sticking keys!

losed - “loses”


15 posted on 04/12/2016 11:45:02 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: C19fan

Q. Why are they so against Trump?

A. Why ask? We know. They don’t want America to be great. They want America to continue to dwindle by struggling in wars of their interest, to continue to export their jobs and industries, and to grow deeper in debt to them.


16 posted on 04/12/2016 11:53:47 AM PDT by ex-snook ( Jesus was sent here by God.)
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17 posted on 04/12/2016 11:54:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: C19fan

I’d vote for him in the off chance he’d give Soros a heart attack....


18 posted on 04/12/2016 1:45:38 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: C19fan

THE MEN WHO OWN AND RUN AMERICA

I know, I know — many of YOU already know this! Some of you could have MADE this video.  But if you are old enough to recall that, for example, that bottle of Coke you could buy for a nickle in 1946 and are a bit unclear why it now costs 10X that or more today, this video will answer that question.

How is it that this LOOTING of America and the rest of the developed world has gone on for over a century?

Well, in addition to wishing to NOT be MURDERED like Rep. Louis McFadden, others and, more recently, JFK (who was making noises about issuing US Notes, bypassing the Fed), the conscious IGNORANCE of or COMPLICITY with the scan by the majority of the current politicians prevents anything from being done to restore an honest monetary system!

Unless he’s lying through his teeth — and I don’t believe he is — when he says “These are BAD PEOPLE”, Donald Trump is not only on to them, but has been declaring that he’ll do something about their crimes!  That’s why the oligarchs are scared “obamaless” (I’m sure you will figure out what I meant to write there) that he might actually make it to the White House!  If you fully understand sordid history of our “masters”, you KNOW they will do whatever it takes to prevent that!

One final comment before I shut up:  What do the now intensifying efforts by Romney, Cruz, Kasich, Preibus and many, many others in the GOPe (not to mention the Dems) tell you about where THEY are with respect to the continuation of this century long economic RAPE of America and her citizens from which THEY undoubtedly benefit?

Just askin’ a question you might wish to put to YOUR representative at the upcoming Town Hall Meetings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO1onXAaI


19 posted on 04/12/2016 1:51:15 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: dp0622

I’m with you. Time for a Nationalist party. Trump or dump (the GOP).


20 posted on 04/12/2016 1:59:28 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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