Posted on 05/01/2014 6:39:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Ted Cruz gathered a group of House conservatives in his office Tuesday night, talking about immigration and House GOP leadership elections slated for after the midterm elections.
As CQ Roll Call first reported last October, Cruz held a secret meeting with members at Tortilla Coast during the height of the government shutdown drama. Many of these same Republicans are the agitators who aren’t happy with Speaker John A. Boehner.
The Texas Republican gathered roughly 10 members of the GOP Conference at 8 p.m. Tuesday for a 90-minute session that included candy bars, crackers and soda. Cruz’s office would not give further details, calling the pow-wow a “private meeting.”
And members were reluctant to spill the beans on just who attended the session, or to gab about what was discussed. But Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama described Cruz as a “facilitator” while the group “talked about a variety of different public policy issues.”
“It was no agenda, spontaneous discussion,” Brooks told CQ Roll Call, later calling it a “rap session” and a “free-for-all.”
He said immigration — and new proposals being floated after Boehner mocked some of his members over the issue — was a major topic. Brooks said Boehner’s comments were “astonishing” and that the Cruz group “naturally” discussed them.
Brooks said his view is that Republicans needed “more diversity” in leadership.
“Right now, we have the top four leaders in the House, none of them are from a Mitt Romney state; all of them are from an Obama state. That’s not diversity. None of the four are from the conservative half of the GOP conference,” he said.
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This is totally intentional. So that the House is commanded by moderate and democrat constituencies!
Why does a party choose leaders and a presidential nominee from states that haven’t gone GOP since Pres. Reagan’s last term??? These Democrat;-Lite Republicans ought to sit in the back of the bus, not in the driver’s seat.
“secret meeting”
Is this some kind of conspiracy talk? When the Democrats routinely collude with the MSM journo-listas on the daily talking points?
Did all three of them show up?
Ted Cruz, a REAL leader. We need 100 more guys like Cruz to shovel out all the political garbage.
“Right now, we have the top four leaders in the House, none of them are from a Mitt Romney [correction: a state even Romney could win] state; all of them are from an Obama state. That’s not diversity.
This is good. This is VERY good. This is the stuff a Party takeover is made of.
exactly, and worth repeating - so I repeated it…..
Well! That just does it. Any group that serves CANDY BARS at a secret meeting is just beneath contempt! (sarc/off)
10. Roughly 10 members. According to the article.
(sigh)
Of the 535 members of Congress, only 10 are on our side.
I’m sure the catering bill for bagels is pretty low for that meeting.
What bias, I don't see no stick'n bias! /s
Cruz met with House conservatives and they amounted to only 10......what are the rest?
10. Roughly 10 members. According to the article.
(sigh)
Of the 535 members of Congress, only 10 are on our side.
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No; but only 10 had the ‘nads to attend a secret meeting,
“As on of Cruz’s staff members put it, how can it be a secret meeting if it was held in one of the Congressional office buildings and the press knew all about it?”
It’s called secret because they don’t know what was said or planned. And they don’t like that!!
That quote was a gem. In plain sight, but a lot of us missed the obvious math , here.
Great post.
:)
” The Texas Republican gathered roughly 10 members of the GOP Conference at 8 p.m. Tuesday for a 90-minute session that included candy bars, crackers and soda. “
” Oh My G-D..... What a bunch of rubes and hicks, they didn’t even have wine and caviar... “
Probably the thought that crossed Bohner’s mind...
Cruz is a racist! Serving “crackers” to crackers! (sarc)
And who paid for the lavish refreshments? Hmmmmmmm?
We need a special prosecutor to investigate.
(sarc)
Maybe they are the only ones that Cruz can fully trust.
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