Posted on 01/30/2016 1:07:24 PM PST by springwater13
Today I was shown a piece of literature from the Cruz for President campaign that misrepresents the role of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election law. Accusing citizens of Iowa of a "voting violation" based on Iowa Caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act. There is no such thing as an election violation related to frequency of voting. Any insinuation or statement to the contrary is wrong and I believe it is not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses.
Additionally, the Iowa Secretary of Stateâs Office never "grades" voters. Nor does the Secretary of State maintain records related to Iowa Caucus participation. Caucuses are organized and directed by the state political parties, not the Secretary of State, nor local elections officials. Also, the Iowa Secretary of State does not "distribute" voter records. They are available for purchase for political purposes only, under Iowa Code." - Paul D. Pate, Iowa Secretary of State
(Excerpt) Read more at oskynews.org ...
Don’t get caught with a live boy or dead girl in your bed is a primary rule for politics. This is not the kind of ‘any PR is good PR’ way of doing things. It’s a campaign that just shot itself in the head and we’re watching the bloody aftermath.
OK, apology accepted.
Or again, look at what he is doing with the resources he has?
Maybe if we projected Trump’s actions up from Trump’s level of faith to the level of faith that Cruz supposedly has... we’d be seeing something that looked like Mother Teresa? Just sayin’?
Just because a pretender is bigger doesn’t make him better.
PuriCon much?
You talk of judgement day while judging others?
How hypocritical Linda.
We have ONE judge, and it isn’t you. Please claim to the world that you are perfect, and without sin.
Go ahead. Try.
I really am speechless. Can’t believe how badly Cruz’s campaign has been run.
A major turnoff and a major fail by the Cruz campaign in my opinion.
Bingo. Thank you for summarizing it in a way I did not.
Aha! Good find! Secretary of State Pate is not so neutral, is he?
Boy do you have your head in the sand. The Cruz campaign stated they were responsible for the mailings. Wow - the naivete of the Cruzbots is overwhelming.
“Obama didnât know until he read about it in the paper.”
$30+ billion a year in intelligence for the President and a local hack had to print it for him to know.
We have The Hill article. Where are the other 250 that should have been written and circulated (and posted here) by now?
A find? A find is that flyer in your mailbox!
“Nobody in the LSM is on this”
Give ‘em time. It’s gonna blow up in the next 24 hours now that Iowa SecState statement was published in an MSM outlet. That gives the rest of the MSM outlets a free pass to run wild with this.
And yet look at that mailer, look at the contents.
Tell us personally how that strikes you.
Sometimes a blind squirrel gets a legitimate acorn.
Then your suspicions are wrong. It was authorized by the Cruz campaign.
When I checked it earlier, the comments were closed.
You betcha!
This is a terrible mistake.
Ted Cruz is the anti-establishment candidate sending out a government like document reporting on your voting record. Very bad. It undermines his whole campaign.
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