Posted on 03/10/2016 1:52:20 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Ted Cruz dumped his last campaignspokesperson after he joked about Marco Rubio’s faith.
Now this… The Cruz camp’s latest spokesperson tried to stomp out the Tea Party. The Blaze reported:
Ted Cruz’s new national spokesman, who replaced ousted spokesman Rick Tyler, came under fire last week for once hiring illegal immigrants and abusing the H-1B program when he was chairman of the Republican Party of California.
However, Cruz’s new spokesman is now being exposed for an offense that Cruz supporters might find even more egregious: trying to stop the Tea Party movement.
In the spring of 2009 when Americans were told their government and big banks were “too big to fail,” Tea Parties began to spring up across the United States.
Night after night, audiences witnessed Americans taking back their government on live TV.
FOX News host and talk radio personality Sean Hannity headlined the Tea Party in his home city of Atlanta; FOX News provided wall-to-wall coverage of the Tea Party in midtown Manhattan; and FOX News’ Neil Cavuto covered the Tea Party in California, for which I served as the official event director and communications director.
The Tea Party was going strong except for one hitch: both myself and my event team received word that some inside the GOP were working to get the events cancelled.
One of those people was Ron Nehring, then-chairman of the California Republican Party and the man who just last week was named Ted Cruz’s new national spokesman.
It turns out, our Tea Party wasn’t alone in the obstruction.
“When we started the Tea Party in California, we expected that the GOP would open theirs arms and welcome us in,” said Dawn Wildman, founder of the California Tea Party Groups Coalition, responsible for several successful Tea Party rallies and tax revolts in California. “Instead, Ron Nehring and many other GOP leaders fought against us at every turn. They hijacked media at events claiming successes for themselves. They warned the rank and file to not join us.”
According to sources who spoke on anonymity due to their current jobs in state government, there were a series of threatening phone calls in 2009 from Nehring to legislators claiming that anyone offering aid and assistance to the Tea Party would become an “enemy” of the Republican Party.
The threats were enough to get Wildman and others to leave the party.
“The threats were so destructive that after that, I burned my Republican Party registration card and became a ‘no party preference’ voter,” said Wildman.
Interesting isn’t it?
One of the (many) founders of the Tea Party endorsed Trump. Her name is Debbie Dooley.
California is going for Trump =)
Yep good old Teddy an outsider just like Obama is a Christian.
Yeah this bodes well. Harriet Myers, next up for Scotus.
Hiring and screening people is always difficult, but Trump has so very very much more experience that Cruz and Rubio.
I will never trust this guy.
Personnel is policy.
Why would I vote for Cruz?
Ted Cruz knows how to pick the winners.
Ted Cruz was trying to obstruct the TEA party. Uh, sure he was.
Pure folly.
If he is speaking for Cruz, so what? Cruz needs all the support he can get. It is not the other way around. Cruz does not have to agree with him on everything.
Plenty of people support the other candidates without agreeing with them on everything.
So he was the one getting funded by trump them?
Many tea party people support Cruz.
All you have to do is look at who Ted surrounds himself with.
Going into the White House, these people would become various White House staff.
You know, if you have even a smidgen of curiosity and an open mind, you cannot escape that Ted is not who he has tried to sell himself as.
He’s a Bush acolyte, a GOPe insider.
I take it Rush is now for Trump. If Cruz had dragged the Bushes in before TX, I wouldn’t have voted for him.
Candidateless.
From a GOP establishment hack?
LOL. Its said to see Cruzbots defend the indefensible.
Well, that’s just one person on the campaign. As long as he balances him with outsiders like McCain family members, Bush family members, and big business Fiorina, we know Cruz is not part of the Republican establishment.
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe I need to re-think that statement.
“I don’t really like the guy (Cruz).” George W. Bush
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