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Ted Cruz forces runoff against David Dewhurst in Texas Senate race
The Hill ^ | May 29, 2012 | Cameron Joseph

Posted on 05/29/2012 9:31:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz (R) has forced a runoff election with Texas Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst (R), a victory for the Tea Party candidate against a better-known and much better-funded foe.

Dewhurst led Cruz by 46 to 32 percent with 44 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (R) was in third place with 13 percent of the vote.

Cruz entered the race with almost no name identification but a bevy of conservative star-makers rallied to his side to help him into a runoff against Dewhurst, the longtime front-runner. Among Cruz's endorsers include the deep-pocketed, fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which spent $2.5 million on his behalf and helped him raise $750,000 more, according to the group.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: runoff; tedcruz; tx2012
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To: dixiechick2000
If I get nuked, that's ok. And if you don't like my manners, ma'am, that's ok, too.

Everything important that I had to say on the thread is still there.

Including the fact that I think David Dewhurst shouldn't be elected to the US Senate from Texas, and that I damn sure think that anyone outside of Texas should have a say in the matter if they haven't had to deal with the.....person as Lt. Gov.

/johnny

61 posted on 05/30/2012 1:23:30 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Shouldn’t.


62 posted on 05/30/2012 1:27:44 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: dixiechick2000
I’m married to one of you.

Nyet. I'm a long term celibate that has lived on mountainsides and lived in poverty and fed people for many years.

Anyone gettin' some ain't like me.

/johnny

63 posted on 05/30/2012 1:31:25 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You’re not going to be nuked! My goodness...just because there were a few posts removed, that doesn’t mean you will be banned.

“Including the fact that I think David Dewhurst shouldn’t be elected to the US Senate from Texas”

If you will look upthread, you will see that I said you are totally right, and that Cruz is the best man for Texas...which means he’s the best for this country.

Go to bed, and reread this thread tomorrow.


64 posted on 05/30/2012 1:32:31 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (This hobbit is looking for her pitchfork...God help the GOP if I find it.)
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To: dixiechick2000
I think I'll just stay up and watch the sun rise. Can't sleep... clowns will eat me (google it for the picture)

Besides, It's good for someone to be awake in case of fire or weather or stuff.

/johnny

65 posted on 05/30/2012 1:38:00 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Lancey Howard

Dewhurst has solid support from Austin, very deep financial pockets and IMO is one of the major reasons we ended up with Strauss as Texas House Leader. It would appear that his election staff is largely responsible for all the attack ads coming out about Cruz. We have had no real Conservative senatorial representation from either Hutchinson or Cornyn in a long time. Now that we have an opportunity to partially rectify that situation I hope everyone will vote for Cruz in the runoff. In the meantime I fear it is going to get very, very ugly.


66 posted on 05/30/2012 1:38:46 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A
I expect so.

Ugly already. I'm thinking mountains and peace and quiet were better.

/johnny

67 posted on 05/30/2012 1:47:47 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Sarah was the big one


68 posted on 05/30/2012 2:03:47 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Very Sweet indeed. My wife and I did the same


69 posted on 05/30/2012 3:45:13 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Kindness will conquer evil)
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To: Lancey Howard

RINO Rick likes Dewhurst.

Read the DMN article about Dewhurst. He hit the Lotto when he found out about the co generation law.


70 posted on 05/30/2012 3:49:51 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: Clintonfatigued

My whole family of 5 voted for Cruz.

I’m glad it meant something.


71 posted on 05/30/2012 4:44:17 AM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; Norman Bates; ...

A big surprise in Texas, Silvestre Reyes of El Paso was defeated in the primary. The district was once competitive, but isn’t usually now. Businesswoman Barbara Carrasco is the GOP nominee. Maybe she can win over some Reyes supporters, as he and O’Rourke visibly disliked each other.


72 posted on 05/30/2012 5:23:24 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama and Company lied, the American economy died)
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To: Kellis91789

I didn’t see the need for the comment in question, either. But that seems to be the way it is these days: Conservatives being rude to conservatives. And then pretending that those who notice are whiners.


73 posted on 05/30/2012 5:27:43 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Lancey Howard
I know Cruz is a good guy and a conservative, but I confess to not knowing jack squat about Dewhurst. Is he bad? Is he a squish? Or, could conservatives live with him if he ends up the candidate?

He's trying to strong arm potential Cruz donors by saying that he's not going anywhere if he loses. Dewhurst would still be Lt. Governor for another session and probably would run for and win the governorship in 2014. If a Cruz donor wants any legislation passed, Dewhurst won't help.

74 posted on 05/30/2012 6:05:22 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Clintonfatigued

great news. Go Cruz


75 posted on 05/30/2012 1:12:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: dixiechick2000

And to think.....i slept thru it all

Tks looking out for me


76 posted on 05/30/2012 2:51:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (the GOP are cowards)
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To: Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

“The district was once competitive,”

Was it?

I think it’s too far a leap now.

Still it’s nice to see a rat who thought he had a job for life go down. Sadly though he’ll get a new cushy job as a lobbyist. I think Charlie Stenholm went with the horse meat lobby. I wonder what Reyes will choose.


77 posted on 05/31/2012 1:12:31 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued; JohnnyZ; AuH2ORepublican

The GOP has only won the 16th just one time, and that was in 1962 when Ed Foreman upset incumbent J.T. Rutherford by a margin of 54-46% (at the time, Foreman was only 1 of 2 GOP House members, the other being Bruce Alger of Dallas — and 50 years later, both Alger and Foreman are still alive). Both Foreman & Alger got swept out in 1964 because of the LBJ landslide. Foreman lost to Richard White, 56-44%. Foreman would, of course, move across the state line to Eastern NM and 4 years later win a House seat there (the only person in the modern era to have successfully accomplished that — although he would lose reelection in 1970).

Only 1 GOP challenger received more than 40% of the vote against White (in 1976) until his retirement in 1982. Democrat Ronald Coleman would succeed White, and he did face a few competitive races (1982, 1984, 1992 & 1994). His closest race was actually not in 1994 (which would be his last) but in 1992 when he barely beat Chip Taberski by a margin of 52-48% (less than 5,000 votes), due in part to his involvement in the “check kiting” scandal (673 bounced checks, the 9th worst offender). He would beat a Latino Republican, Bobby Ortiz, 57-43% in 1994 (in a low turnout race).

Unfortunately, once Reyes succeeded Coleman upon his retirement in 1996, the GOP wrote off the district (indeed, Reyes first won it that year with 71%). At first, Reyes “seemed” like he might be a moderate, perhaps even semi-Conservative member, but that went out the window. The strongest performing candidate since was his 2010 challenger, Tim Besco, who got 37% (a Libertarian got 5%).

Reyes becomes the first incumbent to lose renomination in the district since J.T. Rutherford narrowly defeated Ken Regan in 1954 (and in those days with no viable GOP, that was the only way to take down an incumbent).


78 posted on 05/31/2012 2:01:51 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; GeronL; no dems; SwinneySwitch; GOPsterinMA; ...

Normally, I’d write this race off, but perhaps this year is the exception. Sylvestre Reyes was defeated by a controversial opponent. Beto O’Rourke’s past history includes arrests for DUI and burglary. There is a video of him dancing and falling down while singing karoke in a bar.

http://youtu.be/4Nz2k6J7J-4.

I’m amazed that O’Rourke was able to win. I can only conclude that Reyes had really overstayed his welcome. The Republican nominee is Barbara Carrasco, an El Paso businesswmoman. Perhaps she can win, like Blake Farenhold won in 2010. Stranger things have happened electorally.


79 posted on 05/31/2012 5:25:54 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama and Company lied, the American economy died)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Your thread has turned into a personal Texan bar brawl.

The Admins should simply delete the entire embarrassing thread and let you start over with a re-post.

80 posted on 05/31/2012 5:45:19 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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