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 State’s 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 ...
It was supposedly only sent out to a small number of voters. So most people won’t meet anyone who got it. The “social media explosion” hasn’t happened. I don’t see a Drudge story on it. So it doesn’t appear to be as big a deal as some anti-Cruzites would want you to believe.
Probably. But it doesn’t make the secretary’s clarification untrue. The word “voter violation” rather skirts decorum with insinuation.
The poor rube getting this bird cage liner push-mailer might be alarmed or made embarrassed by having their private vote publically exposed to their neighbors.
Didn’t read the entire article. . .are you saying it is in the article?
In other words, the Cruz campaign violated Iowa election law. I would expect nothing less from the Glenn Beck nutballs.
Oh. Very not good.
At the very least a truly atrocious idea:
What genius came up with those score cards? Total and absolute PR disaster.
“Do not judge according to appearances, but make a righteous judgment.”
“To whom much has been given, much is expected.”
Wanna sit out a Trump on the general, go right ahead, but then you have less basis to complain if he has to face gratuitous opposition on things you would probably mostly agree with him on.
I hope you’re not seriously using “his underlings are out of control” as an excuse?
If Cruz thinks this kind of mailing is they way to win an election, great! Let him take credit for it. But if not, if he did not approve it, then let the firings begin.
“What is the context here? What did Cruz do?”
Teddy in the finest tradition of evangelical conservatism sent out intimidating, misleading shaming letters to the Iowa voters.
Total and Epic Fail!
I hope Ted can ride this out. I still plan on voting for him on March 15. But this kerfuffle will not help. This gives Rubio a bit of a boost.
With each passing day I am even more pleased that I had switched from supporting Cruz to supporting Trump.
Go Trump Go.
Drudge isn’t where most people get their news, as much as you wish it were.
The MSM yappers will put this out and it will cause outrage.
I don’t know if Cruz put it out or not. If it proves to be a dirty trick, my money would be on Haley Barbour.
Something's going on here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
Agree. Let the man send shaming letters. He should send another round.
Obviously no targeting is 100%, but campaigns have tons of information on every voter in terms of whittling down who they should call, what doors they should knock on, etc. The newest tactics are to characterize voters so specifically that different messages are written to target each group they go after.
I dunno but he sent me yet another damn money beg email today despite numerous requests to stop. As far as I’m concerned his so-called “ground game” is nothing but harassment and probably just a hair inside the border of legality, knowing a lawyer is calling the shots.
Wonder if some certain Mormon thought this idea up?
Pray America wakes
People are funny though. Ted is himself too clever by half. “Please vote! Most people don’t think to” would get better results, IMHO.
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