Posted on 12/29/2015 9:20:38 PM PST by Isara
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The crowd was so large that when Cruz spoke the Wilkses had to open the pool patio doors to accommodate about 100 guests who stood in 28 degree weather to listen to the senator.
Cruz allies said the two-day gathering, capping off with a rally where Cruz delivered his standard stump speech, followed by a performance from the Christian rock band The Newsboys, was an overwhelming success. By the end of the six-hour meeting Monday, dozens of the visitors lined up outside a closed room to tape video endorsements of the Cruz presidential bid. Some attended Super PAC and campaign fundraisers held Tuesday in Cisco that were timed to coincide with the fly-in.
The gathering could have been even larger. Mike Gonzalez, who leads the South Carolina Pastors Alliance, was disappointed that some of his fellow clergymen were not able to make it because bad weather caused flight cancellations.
However, when he arrived at the ranch he was stunned to see a crowd of about 300, "including many of the most prominent spiritual influencers in the country."
Those in attendance at the Monday sessions included prominent televangelists, such as John Hagee, pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, and James Dobson, founder of the Focus on the Family organization. Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary and a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, was there, according to interviews with attendees, most of whom were not authorized to discuss the off-the-record session. They said that there were a number of Hispanic and African American clerics in the audience, including Gonzalez and Voddie Baucham, a well-known pastor in Texas.
"It was a very diverse group of national leaders who have significant standing," said David Barton, a Texas Republican author and activist...
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Ted Cruz's billionaire donors are evil. They could never have patriotic intentions.
Donalds billionaries listen to Donald and vice versa because they are the same person.
But you are not addressing the point.
Why do you assume that Cruz's billionaire donors can't have patriotic intentions?? Of course they can, and they do. Go find out who they are, I already know.
Yup. It's the First Rule of Trump. All Big Money in politics besides his is evil.
And some of his supporters, eat it up, without applying a little critical thought to it.
You can't be serious. Ask Lee and Sessions about Cruz. All the rest of them aren't "decent folks".
You keep posting this nonsense.
David Barton the president of Wallbuilders also runs Cruz's Keep the Promise super-PAC. It's worth 40 million. Now compare 40 million vs 700K and answer the question yourself.
And as I told you previously, CfG no longer pushes amnesty as of 2013. They are now neutral on illegal immigration due to internal squabbling within the CfC.
Pandering to 100 to 300 in front of influence peddlers. Yep, sorry to say but Cruz is as establishment as they come.
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