The Mask Is Officially Off – How Ted Cruz Is Funded By Biggest DC Insiders…

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 3/19/16 | Sundance

[Aria]

Now that the presidential race is down to the ‘brass tacks phase’, and with the glaring reality of Team Jeb Bush, Team Mitt Romney endorsement, Team Lindsey Graham endorsement, Team Carly Fiorina endorsement, and the entire DC professional political class aligning themselves with Ted Cruz, it’s a good opportunity to highlight the uncomfortable truth for those new to the awakening.

A freshman, two-year Senator/Presidential Candidate, Ted Cruz was presented, by intentional Wall Street conduct, as an outsider; as “a fallacy of false dilemma“. If you don’t know what “false choice” really means, click on the link ↑ to read the definition and see how easy it is to manipulate the electorate.

[Aria]

Problem is they do what their donors tell them to do.

TPP, etc. The GOPe doesn’t support the American worker, or for that matter the safety of the American citizen...at least from what I can tell.

Consequenty I personally care where the money comes from because it defines the candidates future actions.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Cruz has joined with the establishment to “stop Trump”.
Trump is the citizens effort to stop the Cheap Labor Express.
I am very disappointed that Ted Cruz has decided his ambitions are more important than the country.

[dragnet2]

it doesn’t matter how wealthy his supporters are, as long as their wealth hasn’t been gained by theft or monopoly.

If this isn't a joke, you're one ignorant person. Wealthy insiders and the well connect don't hand over tens of millions because they likes the way Cruz looks. It's paid influence to own and control. It what put the GD country into decline. Loser leadership.

Professional law clerks turned politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we know who their corporate sponsors are. It's that GD corrupt.

[rwh]

Don’t you know? We don’t have substantive debates on FR anymore.

[okie01]

I'm forced to ask 'So what?"

It was already well-known that Cruz worked for the Bush administration. He apparently was an effective -- an highly conservative -- member of the FTC, as well.

Nor was there any secret that he met Heidi, his wife, during this period...and that she worked for the Bush administration, as well.

The Bush finance team members who have been hired are also largely Texans. It's as much about geography as ideology. Who's to say that those staffers aren't largely conservatives, anyway.

So, one of the PACs supporting Cruz is run by a lawyer who also worked for Mitch when he was fighting off Matt Bevin's challenge. First, do we know who else the lawyer worked for? Lawyers tend to work for a lot of people who don't necessarily share the same ideology. Also, as I recall, Mr. Trump gave $50,000 to Mitch to help him beat Matt Bevin.

No "blockbusters" here. Just conspiratorial nonsense.

Finally, mightn't Sundance at ConservativeTreeHouse be a Trump operative? Upon reflection, from the outset, he seems to have played the role of a very skilled propagandist.

[I was Spartacus]

Eventually, Ted will figure out that he is just a pawn. Just as John “One Trick” Kasich figured it out after Ohio.

[catnipman]

“Has the mere accumulation of wealth turned into a badge of dishonor on this web site? If Cruz is right on the issues, it doesn’t matter how wealthy his supporters are, as long as their wealth hasn’t been gained by theft or monopoly.”

Then it doesn’t matter who finances Hillary or Obama does it? You know, as long as the donor hasn’t been gained by theft or monopoly.

After all, it’s just a mere coincidence who supports who for why, right? It means nothing at all if it’s the GOPe/RINO/consultancy class/rich oligarchs/rich plutocrats who are buying, eh, supporting with huge “donations”, an establishment candidate like Bush, Rubio, or Cruz, right?

And of course, none of these candidates being bought, uh, I mean “donated” to, owe anything at all to their purchasers, uh, I mean their “donors”, right? Hillary, Obama, Cruz, et. al., won’t owe a single favor to their “donors” will they? Which is why it matters not a single whit who such “donors” are or why they are donating.

[glasseye]

Ted has been carrying conservative water for years when we had few allies.
It is wrong to shame him.
That said, where else is the ‘beltway’ cash to go?
Ted is closer to the ‘establishment’ then Trump.
Seems we are on a roll, though many here cannot see it.

[M1911A1]

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that you insinuate that those donating millions of dollars to a candidate may expect something for that investment....

It’s pure civic duty. What were you thinking?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ummm I think he is a freshman FOUR year Senator. He was elected in 2012.

Sworn in office January 2013

Announced his presidential run March 2015

2 years in office. Pathetic.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ummm I think he is a freshman FOUR year Senator. He was elected in 2012.

Sworn in office January 2013

Announced his presidential run March 2015

2 years in office. Pathetic.

[Bratch]

The Mask Is Officially Off – How Ted Cruz Is Funded By Biggest DC Insiders…

Posted on March 19, 2016 by sundance

Now that the presidential race is down to the ‘brass tacks phase’, and with the glaring reality of Team Jeb Bush, Team Mitt Romney endorsement, Team Lindsey Graham endorsement, Team Carly Fiorina endorsement, and the entire DC professional political class aligning themselves with Ted Cruz, it’s a good opportunity to highlight the uncomfortable truth for those new to the awakening.

A freshman, two-year Senator/Presidential Candidate, Ted Cruz was presented, by intentional Wall Street conduct, as an outsider; as “a fallacy of false dilemma“.  If you don’t know what “false choice” really means, click on the link ↑ to read the definition and see how easy it is to manipulate the electorate.

Cruz was never “an outsider“.  The intellectually honest political observer would have to detach themselves from all reasonable cognition to avoid accepting Ted Cruz:

• Was part of George W. Bush’s administration.
• Was part of George W Bush’s Florida recount team.
• Was introduced to his wife Heidi (Condelezza Rice staffer) while working for Bush.
• Has hired the entire operational arm of the Jeb Bush campaign team: Paul Dickerson of Houston, TX, Boyden Gray of Washington, DC, Charles Foster of Houston, TX, Reginald J. Brown of Washington, DC, Paula and Jim Henry of Midland, TX, and Nancy and Randy Best of Dallas, TX. Along with Neil Bush.

Those are facts.

So too, are the facts below.

♦  This is one of those ah-ha moments when several political variables seem to reconcile simultaneously. For those who doubted the Earlier Tripwire, here’s the evidence.

There is a Super-PAC called “Stand for Truth” registered out of Lexington Kentucky headed by a guy named Eric Lycan. [Here’s the link – search box “Stand for Truth”]

Mr. Eric Lycan was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lawyer during his re-election campaign against Matt Bevin. Lycan also has deep tentacles within the entire GOPe apparatus, including the Chamber of Commerce.

You can confirm identity from the filing paperwork and the reported contact information which is the same as THIS LINK to the Dinsmore legal group.

Link for FEC Filing [Again search box “Stand for Truth”]

Link to Dinsmore Group Bio

So obviously Eric Lycan is a deep insider within GOPe circles:

• He’s represented, and/or is representing, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
• He also represents clients to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Tom Donohue connection).
• He’s a member of the National Republican Lawyers Board of Governors.
• He was the Kentucky Chairman, Lawyers for Romney in 2012.

There’s no questioning his GOPe bona fides. However, here’s where things get really interesting.

Given his curriculum vitae and the direct connection to Mitch McConnell you might not expect to see this:

It’s a pro-Ted Cruz Super-PAC. The filing above also shows they spent $42,000 to create digital advertising for Ted Cruz, and…

…..wait for it…

….. spent $192,594.00 for “RADIO ADVERTISING”.

It makes a person wonder which radio broadcasters might have picked up some of that Pro-Ted Cruz advertising money?

…and maybe that explains why THIS seemed to have struck such a nerve.

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.@marklevinshow Have you taken any advertising $$ from SRCP Media?

  — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 26, 2016

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But wait, it gets better….

Eric Lycan’s “Stand for Truth” Super-PAC is not only Pro-Cruz, it is also Anti-Donald Trump. Producing and paying for airing of negative ads in Iowa against Candidate Donald Trump (examples found here):

The filing above exhibits spending of $150,000 for negative digital ads in opposition to Donald Trump and $15,750.00 in production costs for the same.

And this is NO SMALL SUPER-PAC, they are spending $2,251,345.00 They are putting out a lot of money. More money than would come from small donors etc.

But again, big picture, why would a Mitch McConnell aligned type of DC insider, with strong connections to the U.S. CoC, be spending millions to support Ted Cruz and spend millions against Donald Trump?

These FACTS, not suppositions, FACTS, blow the “outsider Cruz” narrative a bit, no? These FACTS also seem to run exactly opposite of this Ted Cruz presentation of his relationship with Mitch McConnell, no?

Exactly the opposite seems to be going on. A DC PAC pro-Cruz and anti-Trump, has the very distinct odor of yet another Cruz-like quid-pro-quo (TPA maybe).

The “Never Trump” movement is dependent on the electorate  remaining oblivious to the UniParty scheme.  Once people wake up, the DC machine is done….

 

[Kenny]

Cruz has never accomplished anything and he is a junior senator. His stance on issues are no more relevant than Obama’s was. It might be different if Cruz had a single accomplishment other than voting for TPA cloture and helping to defeat the bill to block China on TPP, it might be different.

But there’s no reason for voters to just take Cruz’s stump speech as gospel. In reality, he’s another empty suit.

[Aria]

Well other than Cruz isn’t so much an outsider fighting the evil “Washington cartel” that he claims and he has taken lobbyist money even though he has claimed - in writing - otherwise.

It would be better if he dropped the “outsider” mask.

[RitaOK]

THANK you so much for posting Sundance. Everything is on the record and exposed.

It’s true. Ted is a TROJAN HORSE.

[okie01]

When that mess is over they’ll kick [Cruz] to the curb and bring in Jeb or Romney.

Of course, they will. And he knows it.

Likewise, though, he'll kick them to the curb an uite with Trump to deny Jeb or Romney (or Ryan) a 2nd ballot victory.

Bringing about Cruz' objective -- a 3rd ballot head-to-head showdown between he and Trump.

(For the record, you've already stated you won't support Cruz if he wins the face-off.)

[dragnet2]

There is nothing to debate anymore. Trumps done dozen debates put on by corrupt MSM moderators who are de facto opponents of Trump. He’s done dozens of nationally televised speeches, countless interviews, family bios, dozens of news conferences on and on. Trumps funding himself and it’s the reason he has all the right enemies. They’re unable to buy him like they’ve done with Cruz, et al.

Substantive debates my a$$. The D.C. disciples of deceit only care about votes, getting elected, stuffing their own pockets with cash and power. Just look at their job performance over the past 2 decades and Middle American who became the results of their disastrous country killing policies.

Get real.

[Califreak]

It’s fun to work for the GOPE
It’s fun to work for the GOPE
Doing everything that the donors say
Don’t let the voters get in the way
It’s fun to work for the GOPE...

[thesligoduffyflynns]

you know in the early days of this stumping & rallies... i initially endorsed Cruz...

but to find out he’s a dominionist and his wheels have greased now Jebber & the half-wit Bush Clan have put all their money into taking down Trum
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[onyx]

Thanks very much. I wish the TreeHouse postings were left to us, or that all posters would use view source because too many FReepers don't go to the link to see the valuable information.


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