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Cruz PACs Paid Talk Radio Insider $8 Million Dollars [Payola Scandal]
Reality Check 753 ^ | 13 April 2016

Posted on 04/15/2016 10:17:19 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

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SCANDAL ALERT

$8 million dollars of Cruz Super Pac Money to buy out Levin, RedSate, Beck and more???

1 posted on 04/15/2016 10:17:19 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: LucyT; SunkenCiv

To what depths has Ted Cruz sunk?


2 posted on 04/15/2016 10:18:01 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

Oh, a blog no one has ever heard of? Get Loretta Lynch on the phone!


3 posted on 04/15/2016 10:19:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d agree except you folks have been posting things equivalent to Joe Baluka bubble gum wrap slogans for ten months.

What goes around comes around.


4 posted on 04/15/2016 10:22:51 PM 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: Fractal Trader

OIC guilty until proven innocent. Might wait a minute and see what the truth is.


5 posted on 04/15/2016 10:24:14 PM PDT by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: DoughtyOne

Show me.


6 posted on 04/15/2016 10:24:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Fractal Trader
To what depths has Ted Cruz sunk?

You have some proof that Cruz coordinated with a PAC that did what is alleged? I urge you to immediately present it to the proper authorities.

7 posted on 04/15/2016 10:25:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What strikes me as more important, is that even if true, and laws were broken, action should be taken, but no votes are going to be undone because of this.

We Trump supporters are getting a slightly “why us” and “we’ve been cheated” mentality.

How about “They’re throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us and we’re still gonna win!!”

I could care less if Trump bought off some stations. In fact, if it helped i’d be glad.

This is politics. Those looking for the girl scouts elections, that’s down the hall.


8 posted on 04/15/2016 10:26:39 PM 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: Fractal Trader
..."To what depths has Ted Cruz sunk?".....he hasn't...that shoe you're assuming fits Cruz belongs on Trump...


9 posted on 04/15/2016 10:26:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL

Like I’m going to waste my time doing anything for you.

I’ve spent ten months looking things up for you folks, to no avail.

Seek help somewhere else.


10 posted on 04/15/2016 10:28:35 PM 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: 2ndDivisionVet

There seems to be a fair amount of smoke coming from this dung heap. ;-)
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A look at Ted Cruz PAC filings (Keep The Promise I & Keep The Promise PAC) turns up expenses totaling $8,467,466.00 to a company out of Plano Texas called Rigel Strategies LLC. Below is a screenshot of just a small sample of the payments Keep The Promise I has paid to Rigel Strategies, LLC.

Rigel Strategies, LLC is owned by a man named Dennis Sternitzky. Sternitzky is the only employee of Rigel Strategies, LLC from extensive research. Sternitzky is a former sales rep for Salem Communications (now known as Salem Media Group), which owns 117 radio stations across the United States. Salem also owns the website Red State which puts on the “Red State Gathering” that is hosted by Erick Erickson. The Red State Gathering notoriously banned Donald Trump from appearing at it’s latest get together in Denver Colorado.

When Sternitzky founded Rigell Strategies, LLC he began pushing a different kind of marketing he calls, “Embedded Marketing”. Sternitzky quotes Michael Margolis, “If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories…if you want to change the culture, change the stories.” In short, Sternitzky’s marketing plan is to pay hosts to promote brands, campaigns, etc. during their show which is perfectly legal, AS LONG AS IT’S DISCLOSED to the public.

According to Sternitzky’s LinkedIn Profile, he was the National Account Manager for Salem Communications (syndicator for Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Erick Erickson and Hugh Hewitt) from August 2005 to August 2011. Before that Sternitzky worked for Premeire Radio Networks (syndicator for Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Meghan McCain).


11 posted on 04/15/2016 10:30:13 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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And there it is. Levin, Beck and Rush.... all bought and paid for. I'm most disappointed in Rush.

Trump earned his money. Yes, his Dad may have given him a start, but what Dad wouldn't if he could. Can't fault Trump for that.

I am so disgusted and disheartened by all of this.

12 posted on 04/15/2016 10:31:26 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: DoughtyOne

Great response!

I for one appreciate everything the FR Caucus has shown us


13 posted on 04/15/2016 10:33:41 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Fractal Trader; Old Sarge; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; ...
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SCANDAL ALERT
$8 million dollars of Cruz Super Pac Money to buy out Levin, RedSate, Beck and more???

To what depths has Ted Cruz sunk?

Thanks, Fractal Trader.

14 posted on 04/15/2016 10:34:42 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Randy Larsen

No comment, but I can think it.


15 posted on 04/15/2016 10:34:58 PM 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: Randy Larsen

Thanks for the “great response” comment.

I can comment on that.


16 posted on 04/15/2016 10:35:38 PM 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: SubMareener

Wow, thanks for posting that “smoke.”

I am most disappointed in Rush. What did he get paid, and was it worth it to have listeners who loved, supported, and prayed for him for years find out he was a phony all along?


17 posted on 04/15/2016 10:39:51 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz isnt my guy but this article is pure BS. Keep the pro/con arguments to the facts or/and opinions.


18 posted on 04/15/2016 10:41:56 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: SubMareener

For me its a whole new spin on our beloved luminaries in CONSERVATISM.....


19 posted on 04/15/2016 10:49:13 PM PDT by magna carta
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"unknown talk radio insider"

Are there commpents from "unnamed" and "anonymous source"? Is there a blurry picture with black bars across the eyes?

Pass.

20 posted on 04/15/2016 10:49:29 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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