Posted on 10/01/2015 8:53:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of Scott Walker's exit from the 2016 race last week, Chart Westcott — a major donor and fundraiser for the Wisconsin governor — heard personally from four GOP presidential candidates. He spoke to the finance chairs for nearly every campaign and super PAC. And he got lobbied by local supporters of the various candidates.
"It was intense," said Westcott, a Dallas-based biotech investor who bundled money for Walker and gave $200,000 to a super PAC supporting him.
In the end, he decided to go with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. "I wanted somebody who would completely shake up Washington," Westcott said. "That’s what I thought I had in Scott Walker, and what I think I have with Ted Cruz."
"You see the popularity of outsiders right now, and Ted is sort of the original outsider," he added. "Like Walker, he is somebody who is not part of the country club up there."
The race to lock up financial players like Westcott spotlights the fractured nature of this year's money race. While huge donations from billionaires have ballooned super PACs, candidates are still scrambling to sign traditional fundraisers who can harness their personal networks and bring in dozens of $2,700 contributions, the maximum donation allowed to a campaign....
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What a bunch of vultures.
What would you advise them to do?
While I was not a major or even a very minor bundler for the Scott Walker campaign, I was supporting him even back when he was fighting the recall effort for the Governor’s office in Wisconsin.
But since he dropped out, I am at sort of loose ends.
I have even considered supporting Bernie Sanders, that would be mostly for laughs, but an obviously extreme candidate may be an easier victory in the general than coming up against the heavily fortified and protected campaign of Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless.
The prevent defense. Take Herself out FIRST.
Oh geeze, you know how I took this at first? That some of those Wisconsin libs wanted to put them in jail!
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