Posted on 04/24/2016 11:47:35 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
In addition to "grass-roots" campaign workers, there are at least eight Super PACs backed by 'shadow elites' who are driven to defeat Donald Trump and they are banking on Ted Cruz. At least one of these super PAC leaders, Katie Packer of OPP, met behind closed doors at the RNC Spring Meeting this week in Florida. Packer states that a republican candidate should "uphold orthodox GOP ideology." This smacks of irony given her past allegiance with Romney/Ryan and Ryan's inability to uphold GOP principles as Speaker of the House.
The super PACs are calling, texting, emailing, lobbying, and all-out wining & dining the 2,472 delegates who will vote at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Elite super PACs directly interfere and influence delegates' decisions which is an encroachment and perversion of the electoral process. These deep-pocketed super PACs are funded by a small cadre of shadow billionaires. They appear to work in tandem with TeamCruz, yet just outside the confines of his official campaign to avoid scrutiny and violations from the FEC. After months of campaigning, the race boils down to a delegate battle funded by the shadowy money of a few elites, rather than the reflection of the caucus and primary votes.
While some super PACs were focused on advertising, they are currently playing a huge outside role in courting and flipping delegates for Cruz. The Our Principles PAC (OPP), run by Romney's 2012 deputy campaign manager -Katie Packer, is an organization developed exclusively for defeating Donald J. Trump. At the Spring RNC meeting in Florida, Packer distributed a four page plan to promote her delegate strategy.
OPP is the most well funded #NeverTrump super PAC. Funded by the Ricketts family -billionaire owners of the Chicago Cubs, OPP has spent $16,000,000 to defeat Trump. In addition to negative media advertising, they hire workers to distribute anti-Trump literature which can be found at precincts and state conventions. OPP's mission is to organize delegates and deploy any number of tactics with the goal of depriving Trump of as many delegates as possible in upcoming contests.
The culmination of the OPP effort is the utilization of staffers to target every state delegate bound or unbound. They seek to convince them by hook or crook to dump Trump at their respective state convention or in July at the RNC convention. Those already pledged to Trump after winning their state are being luxuriously lobbied to back Cruz on the subsequent ballots. The primary purpose of OPP, no matter the cost, no matter the ethics, is to ensure as few as possible delegates will be inclined to support Donald Trump.
Another anti-Trump super PAC, #NeverTrump, has focused on the logistics of the RNC convention in Cleveland. They have booked hundreds of hotel rooms in order to comp the targeted republican delegates. NeverTrump began as a grassroots group started by allies of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). They have endorsed Cruz in some states and Kasich in others, frustrating both candidates. NeverTrump is pushing Kasich in Maryland, and Cruz in Indiana. Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge funder, is another elite that has already wasted millions on negative Trump advertising to no avail. Now Singer is spending his millions scheming behind the scenes to reduce the numbers of Trump delegates that Donald Trump has earned.
Be forewarned. What is being done to Trump by destructive outside forces can also be done behind the scenes to Cruz at the convention. In the end, these same strategists and operatives manipulating this election cycle aren’t just alienating potential GOP voters. They are positioning to help the GOP lose the White House. Again.
What is really interesting is that even the participants have a hard time believing the system is tipped in the house's favor. Nobody is telling them what they can and cannot do.
-- Have you noticed the lack of the polling by the Majors in certain caucus states and states with voterless voting. --
I noticed that the questions about eligibility of a Canadian born person stopped, and now when the press brings up the subject, it is done in a way so as to diminish the reasonableness of even asking the question. Anyway, the poss showed somewhere around 25-35% said "no way eligible."
The public is totally manipulated.
NO difference Grampa Dave!!!
Conservative and Republican Orthodoxy is little more than a dirty whore for sale to anyone who puts up the bucks.
She's embodied in the Republican Congress, Republican Party and Conservative Media.
Only when we rid ourselves of these can we hope to prosper again as a great nation.
Of course a coup is the preferred route, but the old order must be destroyed.
He must have learn the art of bribery from Trump and all his business dealings
Thanks for posting this.
Makes one wonder how much we could get paid for posting Never Trump BS via a GoFundMe account with donations from Hill’s Pacs!
What’s even worse is the RNC condoning it. Cleveland will be ugly. The country will be lost. I am so disheartened. I can’t believe I supported the Republican party for decades. May they all burn in hell for what they’ve done to our beloved country.
Very well said...
“Represent” means voting the way your constituents voted...
That has failed many times in these “caucuses”...
Lawyers do it in courtrooms and with delegates behind closed doors!
Quit abusing the Activism sidebar.
Of course there is - it's no secret. Trump and/or his supporters have managed to alienate/offend much of the rest of the party, and people who may have preferred other candidates earlier in the process are rallying behind Cruzas the only way to stop Trump. That's especially true of long-time party activists and workers whoay not be thrilled with Trump and his supporters openly campaigning to wipe them out.
I'm supporting Cruz only by default, and would vote for a bucket of warm spit that has an "R" after their name before Trump. I didn't always felt that way, but guys here have managed to make me more anti-Trump by the day.
That’s nice. I’m not NeverTrump, though.
Just please consider voting for repub sheriff at your local level (or your state’s equivalent). They’ll be important if we get to a post-November crisis situation. :-)
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In other words, either support for just change via peaceful, voting means or there will be an angry backlash that could result in a violence down the road.
Correction: Result in possible violence down the road.
You don't and you're not
I see America making a comeback.
After they spend millions trying to F Trump they then want Trump to go out and campaign for them to make money.
Strange deal!
You're a bit slow Chin and no doubt will follow that strategy into the ash heap of history. Most Americans have wised up to D.C. con job after becoming the results of their corrupt fraudulent policies which have led to decades of decline in every direction.
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