Posted on 03/19/2016 5:15:02 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
At first glance this picture from Fox13 promoting the Senator Ted Cruz campaign speech in Provo, Utah, might seem innocuous, but it’s not. Along with the campaign promotional swag being handed out to the rallying supporters, those with a keen insight into how modern 2016 presidential campaigns operate will identify something most observers miss.
Look closely at the campaign signage. Notice the absence of the “TrusTED” etc. backdrop and campaign graphic material; instead being replaced by “Keep The Promise” graphics in the backdrop and “Choose Cruz” handout placards.
What you’re seeing there is a (Provo, Utah) campaign event financed exclusively by the Super-PAC Keep the Promise (KtP), and not the Ted Cruz for President campaign.
Simply put, this is the first identifier of an official campaign that is quickly running out of money (burn rate, exceeding receipts), and needs to rely on Super-PAC big donor, corporate sponsorship, to keep itself afloat.
[This also explains the recruitment of the Jeb Bush financial team, and Romney’s Wall Street approvals]
The grassroots donors, the ordinary citizen, are no longer providing enough financial support strong enough to finance the candidates’ ongoing extended campaign need. Remember when we discussed “Proselytizing as an electoral strategy“? This was one of the underlying issues when focusing exclusively on a very narrow segment of the electorate.
The official Cruz campaign has already run afoul of the FEC rules on campaign contributions because they have a small donor pool which is giving excess contributions beyond the maximum $2,400 allowable. They have been warned to return the funds or be in violation of Federal Election Commission campaign finance rules -
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Hypocrite.
“Do you assume that I’m the writer of these articles?” - 2ndDivisionVet
Are you Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump?
You’re confused. I asked her how she gets around the Hatch Act if she is still active duty. I left in 1983.
boo effin hoo.
Wow. So insightful. I find it very true.
Neil Bush is a slimebag. Let him sue me too.
Nonsense. When we get to your idea of free speech we will be in the EU.
Smug in you anonymity? I’ve got bad news for you.
Of course, this info is coming from that rag of a website treehouse. Pfft.
I’d suggest not engaging 2DV when he starts getting personal, which is ever-increasingly, the deeper the hole Cruz is digging himself gets. They must be old buddies or something, he gets very upset when people criticize his candidate.
As to the article, this makes sense, as it’s about that time in the campaign where the piles of money used to (hopefully) create momentum in the first half of the race starts to burn up. At least, when you run a traditional campaign paying a business-as-usual company like Axiom Strategies millions to come up with “winning” strategies like shame mailers and fake viral “gotcha” videos claiming your opponents hate The Bible.
Cruz never managed to “catch fire”, so to speak, so now he’s whoring himself out to whoever will cut him a check.
I’m confused how Cruz is allowed to appear at Super PAC events without it being considered “coordination between campaigns”, but I guess I’m just too much of a low-information rube to understand the super-smart mental and legal gymnastics used to justify how that keeps within the spirit of campaign finance laws.
Anyway, the candidate I favor has run a nice, lean campaign, and his expertise at running large organizations has paid good dividends. :)
i am sundance
Sundance has some interesting analysis, but I evaluate it just like any other source. In this case, I suspect Cruz has plenty of money at his disposal.
“The story is a bit speculative in my opinion.”
Nothing speculative about it at all.
Take a look at Cruz’s Feb 2016 FEC report summary:
http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=P60006111&tabIndex=3
$7,600,000 in and $12,700,000 out.
He had like $19M cash on hand I thought
That must be why he has gone in to panic mode.
“He had like $19M cash on hand I thought”
that Feb report said $13M on hand at the time it was filed.
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