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 -
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Your post is very honest and insightful!
“conservativetreehouse” is not exactly a bastion of genuine “Conservative” values. It is a massively pro-Trump rag that has been churning out volumes of mostly drivel and poor assumption lies against Cruz. Almost as reliable and balanced as the HuffingtonCOMpost
“Are you sundance?”
You need to back away from Ted Cruz. He’s turned you into someone I no longer recognize.
The elite never are...
2nddivvet is a Cruz bundler. I’ve never been a bundler, so I don’t know what perks they get, but I am also a 2ID vet. No perks in that.
I donated to Ted’s presidential campaign four times, early on. When he voted for cloture on TPA, that came to an abrupt end.
Following that bit of head scratching strangeness on Ted’s part, came his vote for the Corker amendment, which gave Iran the wherewithal to bomb us into the stone age.
That’s when I grabbed a life preserver and jumped overboard.
“Cruz is the only conservative in this race”
You can tell a lie a million times, but it will still be a lie.
Ted Cruz is no conservative.
I believe it!
I am Sundance!
He even did this BS ploy to mail a dollar bill and then a couple of weeks later sent a letter asking for his dollar backIt's a federal law that anything you receive in the mail unsolicited is yours to keep...You do not have to send it back, pay for it etc...I would not have sent it back.
Have you always been a big defender of Neil Bush, or just recently?
Didn’t this used to be a conservative site where most members believed that “if only” the Republicans would nominate a true conservative that we would sweep the next election?
That’s a legitimate piece of information, but as I said there was something very funny in the article.
The 2,400 dollar contribution limit is not accurate, its 2,700 dollars in the primary cycle.
I assume this is within the campaign itself and not related to an outside PAC.
I assume this is within the campaign itself and not related to an outside PAC.
The email was a matching fund email.
Since the campaign committee is stuck with a maximum of $2700 per each donor from the primary, it strikes me that the “most generous donors” and “a few generous supporters” would have a difficult time donating logistically while staying inside the $2700 primary donation limit.
I’m thinking of the logistics here.
Your generous donors would more than likely already be at the $2700 mark for the primary and would not have the legal means to match anyone else’ donation.
Oh, I didn't. I considered it a partial refund for what I sent him earlier.
Yeah, THAT and THAT too.
It was a happy delusion, but a delusion nevertheless.
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