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.
The problem with Cruzbots is that they refuse the truth even when smacked in the face with it. Face it - Ted has very poor judgment - very poor. Yet, the supporters on this forum will go back 35 years and bash Trump for everything. Talk about your cultist behavior - it’s Jim Jones 2.0 all over again.
Yup.
So the Bush people are taking over his campaign.
I guess we’re gonna see more Bushism in a Cruz White House.
Just not with Jeb as its face.
You mean Cruz indefensibly donated $50,000 to Rahm Emmanuel, and gave TEN separate donations to Hillary Rotten? Who’da thunk it?
What WAS Ted thinking????
The more you read about the intertwined relationships in the establishment,the more you realize it’s all rotten and needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
I am tea party member from California and supports Trump.
I don’t trust lying Cruz.
Once you see who he really is...you never can!
Ron Nehring is awful. Brava for speaking up & reporting the painful truth. Cruz needs to cut ties w/this guy ASAP. https://t.co/6wsroY3yY5 — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) March 9, 2016
As Conservative Review Senior Editor Michelle Malkin wrote in 2009:
How do you think it would have gone over in heavily republican Collin county if Carly had endorsed him before the Texas primary. Lots of ex EDS/HP employees around.
The question is, “How many ‘interesting’ things will it take for the Tediban and the Cruzadians to wake up to the fact that Teddy Bare is a fraud?”
It was only TWO WEEKS ago that Trump bragged about his wonderful relationships with Pelosi, Schumer and Reid. Who needs ancient history?
That was then. This is now.
The old joke comes to mind politicians are for sale.
And Cruz has sold himself to the Bush family.
IMO, he sold out yesterday lock stock and barrel.
When he said he didn’t mind going into a floor fight at the convention, I figured he had been give a promise.
He’s just one more member of the GOPe now.
Good old go along to get along Ted.
Mr. Have I Got An Excuse For You, is still at it.
“Personnel is policy.”
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA, that is one of the stupidest statements I have yet seen on this forum.
I think I bruised a rib laughing so hard.
I trust Cruz. I think Trump is unfit to serve in high office.
The tea party was somewhat effective at electing some candidates, and stalling some government laws, and taxes.
But the Tea Party movement was primarily a Limited Government, Smaller Government, Less Government Regulation, Less Government Spending, Lower national Debt movement.
Trump supports almost none of that effort. His is a different , more populist endeavor. And most of his supporters do not support those original Tea Party principles either.
Don’t watch what politicians say. Look at whom they appoint to manage and run their campaigns.
The staff people are the ones going to be making critical decision in the White House.
Read the last 3 lines of the article if you’re really curious about the kind of people Team Cruz is recruiting.
......I think Trump is unfit to serve in high office......
That’s because he is unfit to serve as President....he’s simply played the public well because that IS what he does...
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