Say you’re sorry for not knowing what you’re talking about and I might believe something you post in the future:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/229571-sen-ted-cruz-out-at-senate-campaign-arm
From the article:
He drew the ire of colleagues in 2013 by raising money for the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), which backed primary challengers to now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.).
Cruz attempted to mend fences with angry GOP colleagues by informing them in the fall of 2013 he would no longer help the SCF, but by then some damage had been done.
GOP senators were also miffed with Cruz for demanding that Congress use a 2013 government funding bill to defund ObamaCare, which led to a 16-day government shutdown that damaged the GOP brand.
Cruz might have his own reasons for wanting to avoid the NRSC slot, as he is rumored to be eying a run for the White House in 2016.
Behind the scenes, GOP strategists argue that Cruz contributed little of his time to the NRSC.
“Cruz might have to come to a couple of meetings in early March [2013] but they never heard from him after that until before the election, when he cut a very generous check to the NRSC,” said one Republican source familiar with the committee.
A GOP strategist said, “[Cruz] did very little last cycle. It was a title in name only.”
Cruz pledged $250,000 to the NRSC in September 2014, something that angered many conservative activists.
Catherine Frazier, Cruz’s spokeswoman, noted that her boss crisscrossed the country last year to rally conservatives for Republican candidates, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, freshman Sen. Dan Sullivan — who knocked off a Democratic incumbent in Alaska — and freshman Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.).
Cruz also traveled in the final weeks of the campaign to Kansas and Georgia to rally conservatives to support embattled Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and businessman David Perdue, who were in tight races.
“Sen. Cruz was glad to spend considerable time and resources working to help secure a GOP majority — $250,000 to the NRSC, $282,000 on robust digital campaigns for Perdue, [freshman Sen. Joni] Ernst [Iowa], Sullivan, [freshman Sen. Tom] Cotton [Ark.] and [New Hampshire candidate Scott] Brown and more than $78,000 to individual Senate candidates,” she said.
But let’s not let facts get in our way to bashing anyone who says anything negative about the Trumpster...and I’m a Trump guy before you bash me...
I was confused about him being Vice chair and not chair.
I once thought highly of Ted Cruz.
His diminishment in my eyes is all his own doing.