Posted on 01/30/2016 4:38:30 PM PST by McGruff
Iowa's secretary of state chastised the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday for sending a mailer that he said violated "the spirit of the Iowa caucuses" and misrepresented state election law.
The secretary of state, Paul D. Pate, called the effort "misleading."
"Accusing citizens of Iowa of a 'voting violation' based on Iowa caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act," Mr. Pate said. "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."
Mr. Pate added that his office never "grades" voters, nor does it maintain records of caucus participation. He said that the office also did not "distribute" voter records, but they were available "for purchase for political purposes only, under Iowa Code."
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"These mailers are common practice to increase voter turnout," said Matt Schultz, the campaign's Iowa state chairman and a former Iowa secretary of state
At this point it seems to me they admitted it, they disavowed it, and now are admitting it again. Now they are defending it as well. Yikes.
I dismissed the term “total disarray” the a day or two ago, but now I’m wondering if I wasn’t a bit premature with that.
You know as well as I that this is their MO, in nearly any situation that they guessed wrong on how the wind would blow.
On another note, I just received an email from Heidi. In it she pleads that unless they receive $100,000 in campaign funds now, they can't fund their voluteers. Silly me...I thought funded volunteers would be paid employees.
These folks are tone deaf.
Any laws broken - no. Any rules broken - no. Ok, then shut up, you are supposed to be non-biased.
Oh, spare us the outrage.
Cruz has dared to prick the ethanol bubble. Official Iowa will not abide by that. There's nothing else to see here.
Well, I wouldn't have done it. I think it's a dumb idea, and it could backfire. And I'm a Cruz supporter.
Drudge now has an image of the mailer posted on his website and two links on it.
CNN is now covering this.....
Yep. That was the moment the Governor declared war on Cruz.
If it was a Super PAC, and his state Spokesman claimed the mailer...that's prima facie evidence to open a Federal collusion investigation.
Granted, this is not in evidence, but the question should be asked.
The NY Times picked this up. Wow.
This is what the SoS intended.
I suppose, but it would seem better not to do it. If you did it own up to it and use that fantastic reasoning you had to explain it. Don’t waffle more. It just causes you to look shifty, almost corrupt. Bad idea...
I stopped getting their begging emails after replying that times are hard since I lost my job to a H1B worker.
I wonder how many times that amount the Cruz campaign has spent trying to get more money out of me. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!
Certainly not "Christ-like."
PRAY: I'm looking for men and women committed to praying. I ask that you pray for me that I may be Christ-like in word and deed.
—from a Ted Cruz fundraising letter I received.
They also tried to blame it on a 19 year old political science major working for the campaign. What kind of idiots give a 19 year old authority to create, print and mail flyers in the name of their candidate? I see they’ve dropped that one too.
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