No more 8 years of Obama. Just say, Hell no to Clintoon!
Posted on 04/24/2016 11:47:35 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
In addition to "grass-roots" campaign workers, there are at least eight Super PACs backed by 'shadow elites' who are driven to defeat Donald Trump and they are banking on Ted Cruz. At least one of these super PAC leaders, Katie Packer of OPP, met behind closed doors at the RNC Spring Meeting this week in Florida. Packer states that a republican candidate should "uphold orthodox GOP ideology." This smacks of irony given her past allegiance with Romney/Ryan and Ryan's inability to uphold GOP principles as Speaker of the House.
The super PACs are calling, texting, emailing, lobbying, and all-out wining & dining the 2,472 delegates who will vote at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Elite super PACs directly interfere and influence delegates' decisions which is an encroachment and perversion of the electoral process. These deep-pocketed super PACs are funded by a small cadre of shadow billionaires. They appear to work in tandem with TeamCruz, yet just outside the confines of his official campaign to avoid scrutiny and violations from the FEC. After months of campaigning, the race boils down to a delegate battle funded by the shadowy money of a few elites, rather than the reflection of the caucus and primary votes.
While some super PACs were focused on advertising, they are currently playing a huge outside role in courting and flipping delegates for Cruz. The Our Principles PAC (OPP), run by Romney's 2012 deputy campaign manager -Katie Packer, is an organization developed exclusively for defeating Donald J. Trump. At the Spring RNC meeting in Florida, Packer distributed a four page plan to promote her delegate strategy.
OPP is the most well funded #NeverTrump super PAC. Funded by the Ricketts family -billionaire owners of the Chicago Cubs, OPP has spent $16,000,000 to defeat Trump. In addition to negative media advertising, they hire workers to distribute anti-Trump literature which can be found at precincts and state conventions. OPP's mission is to organize delegates and deploy any number of tactics with the goal of depriving Trump of as many delegates as possible in upcoming contests.
The culmination of the OPP effort is the utilization of staffers to target every state delegate bound or unbound. They seek to convince them by hook or crook to dump Trump at their respective state convention or in July at the RNC convention. Those already pledged to Trump after winning their state are being luxuriously lobbied to back Cruz on the subsequent ballots. The primary purpose of OPP, no matter the cost, no matter the ethics, is to ensure as few as possible delegates will be inclined to support Donald Trump.
Another anti-Trump super PAC, #NeverTrump, has focused on the logistics of the RNC convention in Cleveland. They have booked hundreds of hotel rooms in order to comp the targeted republican delegates. NeverTrump began as a grassroots group started by allies of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). They have endorsed Cruz in some states and Kasich in others, frustrating both candidates. NeverTrump is pushing Kasich in Maryland, and Cruz in Indiana. Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge funder, is another elite that has already wasted millions on negative Trump advertising to no avail. Now Singer is spending his millions scheming behind the scenes to reduce the numbers of Trump delegates that Donald Trump has earned.
Be forewarned. What is being done to Trump by destructive outside forces can also be done behind the scenes to Cruz at the convention. In the end, these same strategists and operatives manipulating this election cycle aren’t just alienating potential GOP voters. They are positioning to help the GOP lose the White House. Again.
Why attack me?
I object to your attitude.
Disprove one thing I wrote!
Go ahead, oldbrowser.
BTW, Californian,
Congressman Duncan Hunter (Ca-52) was the first to endorse Donald Trump. His endorsement is the confirmation that a patriot would expect to hear about Trump’s agenda for the military and this country.
Too bad we can’t blame the Koch brothers.
So what happemed to Trump’s transgenders bathroom boner?
You know like Caitlyn Jenner can use my bathroom anytime?
Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.”
—— Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3424005/posts
They can buy airline tickets, hotels, limos, entertainment, and wine and dine the delegates. The sky’s the limit.
Is that not bribery?
This article showas that cruz might not be able to get out even if he wanted to. He took their help, now he has to dance to their tune.
Sorry, I normally do, I think the titles overran the links.
I have ALWAYS believed Trump could WIN 3rd party!!!!
So does the RNC, that's why they had him sign a pledge. I think they believed that if they got this far down the road, he would be so damaged he'd no longer pose a threat.
SURPRISE!1
Again, you are very perceptive. Keep projecting the appearance of a fair election. Bush was supposed to have won this with a $140,000,000 in media ad buys.
Polling plays into this as well.
Have you noticed the lack of the polling by the Majors in certain caucus states and states with voterless voting. The same goes for the lack of exit polling after they have thrown a state election.
Probably due to Trump having upset the “established order”, it seems that campaigns are no longer buying persuasive media to get the word out to the general election voters.
THEY’RE BUYING DELEGATES in an effort to stack the deck at the nominating conventions. Since they only have to persuade a few thousand citizens as opposed to trying to reach millions in the general population later, it’s cheaper and they can effectively dictate and limit the choices the general voters will have on election day!
Question: Can someone explain why this isn’t the same thing as bribing members of a jury to secure a desired verdict?
No more 8 years of Obama. Just say, Hell no to Clintoon!
Cruz loves to take the credit. Me thinks he is well aware of the entire process and the details.
It was already documented that a bunch of the “Cruz” Colorado delegates are Romney retreads. The check is in the mail...
And after you vote in this phony primary, CHANGE your registrations to NON AFFILIATED. THE GOP needs to get a message!
Sounds like a plan!
Right. Trump would have won in a landslide in Colorado if the voters were allowed to vote.
thanks.
Now we all know there were no elections this weekend so the word is getting out to the masses that there is something going on with this primary cycle.
Trump “can” do it too though, right? But you dod ‘t just say theu “could” - you said it actially happened. So, how about the name of just one delegate you saw that was actually bribed to vote for Cruz?
I totally agree...We have to stop the GOPe from taking this away from Trump....
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