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To: JayGalt

A lifelong liberal isn’t going to clean up anything.

Cruz is dependent upon small-donor money—those ARE the American people.

If you don’t want donors, you’re going to have to settle for only very wealthy candidates, regardless of the magic you think Trump is going to somehow perform.


49 posted on 01/02/2016 11:32:58 AM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: CatherineofAragon
you’re going to have to settle for only very wealthy candidates,

Already true. We only have wealthy candidates or their proxies. The president during WW II only received $25,000.00 annual salary. I remember when Maxwell Taylor resigned and took over the management of March of Dimes at a salary of $1,000,000.00 a year I was dumbfounded.

54 posted on 01/02/2016 12:54:17 PM PST by itsahoot (Anyone receiving a Woo! Woo! for President has never won anything after the award.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

That is pure BS and you know it. Cruz has more than a few PACs of wealthy donors. Mercer is one of them and he is behind Breitbart and the spamming of people who do not want to be spammed.

Quit the damn lying. It is sickening. Do any of you tell the truth?


55 posted on 01/02/2016 12:59:51 PM PST by dforest
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To: CatherineofAragon

Cruz fund raising stats are very similar to all of the candidates most of the $ from corporate donations https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=C&cid=N00033085&newMem=N&cycle=2016

Top 5 Contributors, 2011 - 2016, Campaign Cmte
Contributor Total Indivs PACs
Club for Growth $705,65 $705,602 $55
Senate Conservatives Fund $315,991 $305,991 $10,000
Woodforest Financial Group $111,500 $111,500 $0
Goldman Sachs $69,350 $64,350 $5,000
Morgan Lewis LLP $67,550 $67,550 $0
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Top 5 Industries, 2011 - 2016, Campaign Cmte
Industry Total Indivs PACs
Republican/Conservative $1,607,662 $1,495,331 $112,331
Oil & Gas $952,382 $773,382 $179,000
Lawyers/Law Firms $938,747 $881,498 $57,249
Retired $835,750 $835,750 $0
Securities & Investment $758,427 $733,927 $24,500

If Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wins the Republican presidential nomination he will owe a major debt of gratitude to the billionaire pastor Farris Wilks and his family, which made their fortune from fracking. As you can see from the above he will owe a considerable debt to Gas/Oil, Lawyers & Securities/Investment pros.


63 posted on 01/02/2016 5:54:33 PM PST by JayGalt
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