Posted on 01/31/2016 5:17:54 AM PST by Helicondelta
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is defending a campaign mailer that Iowa's secretary of state says misrepresents election law.
The mailer bills itself as a "voting violation" notice and tells the recipient it's been sent due to "low expected voter turnout in your area." It then grades the recipient's voting history and that of several neighbors, citing public records.
Cruz told reporters in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday that the mailing is "routine."
He says he won't apologize
(Excerpt) Read more at kwwl.com ...
You sound like the creep here.
That’s what I was thinking. Since when do volunteers get paid.
I’m beginning to think Ted wants to lose rather than go to court over his citizenship. This was over the top & if the Twitter post are true, his staff wanted him to apologize. Did his mother apply for a CRBA for Ted? Did she become a Canadian citizen when his father did? A lot of questions where we only have Ted’s word for when his parents first went to Canada.
There is no defense, Ted.
“Voting history is public information by law”
SO WHAT?
It still was taken, printed out, along with your neighbors, put in an ominous looking package, and mailed to the person!
You open this and you could not help but have a real WTF reaction.
This guy is strutting around talking about how he is the greatest defender of the constitution in history, and he condones this type of mailer?
Are some people so high on Ted that you simply cannot understand why this rubs people the wrong way?
You sound like yet another Trumpster with his or her head up their butt, who doesn’t know beans about what his pal Putin is really up to.
Meanwhile...
TRUMP: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'
Business Insider ^ | December 17, 2015 | By Maxwell Tani
Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
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"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."
--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015
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Meanwhile again...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
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"Trump's relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad .
A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.
Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."
"...we are left thinking [whether] Trump understands the aggressive intentions of Vladimir Putin.
"...when Trump was asked about the nuclear balance with Russia during the most recent Republican presidential debate, he displayed ignorance of the decaying nature of the U.S. nuclear triad, which constitutes our ability to deter and survive a Russian nuclear first strike.
"Putin has just presided over a ceremony honoring the KGB's successor agencies, and the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel has announced the grand opening of a "cultural center" dedicated to mass murderer Joseph Stalin.
It looks like Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and Trump. It is an opening for Trump's opponents, especially Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL). But do they have the courage to "follow the money" and hold Trump accountable for doing business with a criminal regime that threatens the survival of the United States? At the end of this money trail, they may find an explanation of why Trump is so reluctant to hold Putin responsible for his crimes.
Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225
: ) Although I support Trump, Cruz is my 2nd choice. In my list of grievances against all things political, this is pretty far down.
Trump: Well, I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, so, you know. There's a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, Joe. Lot of killing going on, a lot of stupidity, and that's the way it is.
This is done in every election cycle, local, state, and national. There is nothing on the postcard, or envelope that implies voter fraud.
I’ve been stuffing them in mail boxes for 26 years. The distribution clerk sees the one piece at the top of the bundle to get it to the correct route. I break the bundle, and put it in delivery sequence, along with thousands of other mail pieces, and don’t really give a rip on the content. Name, and address is all I have time for.
After sequencing, I pull it down, and put it in a 13” x 2’ tray. I generally use 5 trays. Sorting, and pulling down takes about 2.5 hours. I load it in my truck knowing that I only have 5.5 hours to service 480 families.
We don’t care what the mail piece is about. We just want to deliver it accurately, and timely.
All you’re doing is revealing how utterly ignorant and/or dishonest you are. Nothing I stated about Trump wasn’t true. This is the reason I do the copy and paste. To provide credibility to what I’m saying. Most of what I have is straight from the horse’s mouth, or in Trump’s case, a**.
‘It’s like he’s a kid, pushing the boundaries to see how much he can get away with.’
It’s been noted that not one but both Cruz’ parents had issues with alcohol. Psychologists call people raised in that kind of environment, “adult children of alcoholics.”
| Nice artwork BTW, McGruff. This letter reads like a lot of spam and urgent junk mail charity appeals I've gotten over the years. How does this message square with the all funding we hear Cruz has received from wealthy donors, Goldman Sachs and Citi? I get an email message for Trump once a week, but he has never asked me for money. The only time he did was last week when he asked me to contribute to his Wounded Vets charity. |
Sure is. But you're way too dumb to understand or appreciate it.
I agree, but it’s so lame and big brother-ish.
Not at all what I would expect from a guy strongly on our side.
This has “community organizer” all over it.
‘Cruz told reporters in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday that the mailing is “routine.”’
Another lie. This is the first mailing in history that informed neighbors, by name and address, of each other’s voting records.
The Cruz campaign’s mailer also contained the recipient’s voting history, a grade for their history and that of several of their neighbors.
“Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors’ are public record,†the mailer read. “Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUACUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SOCRE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow up notice may be issued following Monday’s caucuses.â€
I believe you should face facts.
It depends who they were sent to...the whole of registered Repubs...or Repubs who have registered on Cruz's site.
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