Are you sundance?
Yep. The other thread has Ted calling in all the big donors for a get together in Las Vegas in April. It has every indication of Ted having a big “I’M FOR SALE” over his head. His wife Heidi is going to be there to. The question is what price is Ted going to have to pay for their money?
Ted is not necessarily TrusTED, but he may be BusTED.
This rings true....b/c anecdotal references indicate Cruz/s donors are being bombarded w/ requests for money-—up to 10 emails a day in some instances.
Donors are callously told...don’t bother to volunteer....just send money.
The story is a bit speculative in my opinion.
Cruz has gotten a steady flow of cash from small donors like me up to and including March 15th.
I have given more in the hundreds to Cruz than I have ever given to any candidate before.
I know the limit and I’m not going to get close to it anyway since I am a ‘small donor’.
The legal limit allowed for a presidential candidate in a primary cycle is $2,700, not $2,400 as cited in this article.
Cruz is said to have a donor list of 320,000 people to tap into. That’s a big reason he survived the race up to this point against Trump’s resources.
Now the Establishment folks will chip in their money and resources which raises questions and doubts.
The latest Cruz fundraising emails point to the notion of us matching funds from donors and ‘unifying’ the Republican Party.
With all the fundraisers that have come on board, no way he is short on cash.
Tediban take note:
The Cruz campaign is a financial behemoth consisting of thousands of paid campaign workers and long-term financial obligations. There are many campaign financial obligations that are unlawful for a Super-PAC to finance or underwrite.”
The checks are going to start bouncing.
Of course, this info is coming from that rag of a website treehouse. Pfft.
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.
That must be why he has gone in to panic mode.
I gave to Ted early in the morning the very day he announced he was running.
After that, it was relentless with the solicitations in the mail and over the phone. 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 back all while trying to guilt me. (Heck, I want my money back, too!) When the story came out about the voter shaming it seemed all too plausible to me. Pile on the Carson dirty trick and we're starting to paint an ugly picture. He (his campaign) goes too far.
Ted is his own worst enemy and now he's dancing with the devil. A clear sign that he's been to this dance before was his 500% increase in H1B stance that's he's tried to back track on in recent months.
You have to be suspicious of someone who touts their own morals with slogans like "TrusTED". It's basically a "tell".
He's running out of small donor money because people are getting turned off. He sure turned me and Mrs. Vortex off and he had us at the start.
WasTED opportunity imo.
You might remember Carly Fiorina ran her entire campaign almost exclusively on “CfA” (Carly for America) financial structures similar to this Cruz “KtP” (Keep the Promise) event.
Fiorina had almost no donor money, grassroots money, individual campaign donations, that made her campaign viable.
She had to rely almost exclusively on Super-PAC funding which is essentially unlimited but also carries strict rules on how the candidate, and/or their campaign, may communicate/coordinate with the spending.
A few Wall Street billionaires can keep a Super-PAC funded, and supplant the missing contributions of the ordinary campaign. Unfortunately, this is one of the new realities in the era post “Citizens United” SCOTUS decision. However, a few BIG DONORS doesn’t add up to the millions of supporters needed to win an election.
The evidence of the Super-PAC now stepping in to fund the campaign events doesn’t mean the campaign has completely run out of money. However, it does indicate the campaign is burning through the ordinary campaign funds at a higher rate than the campaign receipts.
When combined with the growing visibility of diminishing polled support, and the campaign turning toward states that are far less ideologically favorable to the candidate – and when you add in the fact that Utah is one of the more favorable states for Cruz, you begin to see a picture of a campaign entering the final key stretches and being spread entirely too thin.
The Cruz campaign is a financial behemoth consisting of thousands of paid campaign workers and long-term financial obligations. There are many campaign financial obligations that are unlawful for a Super-PAC to finance or underwrite.
In addition, the coordination rules on S-PAC financial assistance present a tenuous risk when a campaign begins to rely upon them to set up campaign events.
Excellent post, thanks! Unlike 2nd, I appreciate the work you do here on FR.
In the month of January, Ted spent over 12m while only taking in 7.5 Million.
That is why he is staying in the caucus states...those are the cheap victories to get. He is coming to the most expensive part of the race right now; that is why he has to bring on donors and all the unpleasant things that come with them.
I think the treehouse needs to change to the Populous Treehouse, Cruz is the only conservative in this race not Trump.
Nice guesses, but Cruz Reports show he is very tight with the money, if he can get someone to pay for anything, he does.
Cruz puts new meaning to the term tightwad.
If candidates & PACs can’t coordinate, how can this be done?