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Posted on 10/31/2016 5:33:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(TEXAS TRIBUNE) Late this summer, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry strongly encouraged U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's re-election bid in 2018, according to GOP sources.
The encouragement, which was relayed to The Texas Tribune by two Republican sources familiar with the correspondence, came around the same time that McCaul, an Austin Republican, emerged as a top potential challenger to Cruz's re-election efforts, amid an outcry among many grassroots conservatives over Cruz's decision not to endorse presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.
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I remember him now. Looks like a decent, conservative record, though he has a mixed bag on the trade issues.
Cruz is untrustworthy and lacking in character. He is the epitome of DC, not Texas nor America.
Please do McCaul.....I’m begging you. You’re running against Cruzzzz will be the only thing keeping me from voting for a Demonrat again. I voted for one against Cruz last time around and I will again if Cruz is on the ballot. I despise him.
IMO we really need to concentrate on getting rid of Cornyn first.
Now get someone lined up for cornyn. he’s worse than cruz. imagine that!
Look at Ted Cruz’s actions in the last 6 months. #NeverCruz
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Cruz is the only trustworthy candidate we have had in the last 16 years.
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Doesn’t his wife’s family own Clear Channel? Seems I read that somewhere........
Which country?
You are being funny, correct?
“If this country is going to have any future, Cruz is the core of it.”
You must be talking about the North American Union.
Conservative a Review Scorecard:
McCaul - F (56%)
Cruz - A (97%)
You are joking, right?
The anti Cruz crowd is the only thing that could keep me away from the polls in November.
I remember a family by that name having enormous pull in San Antonio three decades ago. Went to school with one. Very arrogant and aloof. Treated other Tex-Mex folk like peones. A cold, hubristic person.
He tried todvance his own version of “comprehensive immigration reform” and he found a partner in Sheila Jackson Lee.In short he is the second biggest idiot in Texas. For gods sake stick with Cruz. Cruz is making a mistake in not endorsing Trump, but, it is because he does not think Trump is Conservative enough. He is different than the country club weasels like the Bush's.
“Doesn’t his wife’s family own Clear Channel? Seems I read that somewhere........”
How the Richest Member of Congress Got That Way
By Dan Amira
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/08/michael_mccaul_richest_mmber_of_congress.html
Even as the economy sputtered in 2010, Texas congressman Michael McCaul saw his net worth skyrocket to $292.21 million — 300 percent over where it stood in 2009 — vaulting him to the top of Roll Call’s annual list of the wealthiest members of Congress. Does this have something to do with that “Texas miracle” we keep hearing about? Nope! It has something to do with the miracle of having a very rich wife:
The lion’s share of McCaul’s wealth is held by his wife, Linda McCaul, the daughter of Clear Channel Communications CEO and founder Lowry Mays, and his dramatic rise in net worth appears to be the product of generational wealth transfer.
A footnote to McCaul’s newest report notes that “certain assets” owned by his spouse were “acquired via a gift from spouse’s parents.” The accounts were not identified.
On his financial disclosure, McCaul lists a new asset owned by his wife, the Linda McCaul Descendant Trusts, valued at more than $50 million. According to his report, that trust is invested in several other family partnerships.
McCaul likewise added two trusts under the ownership of his dependent children, including one trust valued at $25 million to $50 million and another at $1 million to $5 million.
Due to this influx of spousal wealth, McCaul unseated last year’s richest member of Congress, John Kerry — the John Kerry married to Teresa Heinz Kerry of the ketchup fortune. We’re beginning to see a pattern here.
McCaul Leaps to Top of 50 Richest Members of Congress [Roll Call]
Cruz-kick him upstairs to SCOTUS. Reagan could have done that with Hatch. Get them out of the way.
After his duplicity on TPA and at the convention, it is unbelievable that you could make that statement.
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