Posted on 04/09/2016 4:43:05 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Senator Ted Cruz has at least eight Super-PAC’s assisting his presidential campaign; and according to a recording obtained by Politico a Cruz’s campaign bundler was directing large donors toward one PAC specifically. The “Stand for Truth” PAC.
However, the campaign appears to have, yet again, gone into the land of illegality with the following statement (via audio recording):
“If you hit your max then we have a table for you that is the unlimited table,” Keet Lewis, a bundler for the campaign and co-host of a Dec. 30 fundraiser in Dallas, says on the recording provided to POLITICO. “It can take corporate dollars, it can take partnership dollars, and that’s the super PAC, Stand for Truth, so pick up some of that information.” (link)
The politico article goes on to share how and why the fundraising instructions are illegal – read here– but that’s not the part that might stick out to anyone who has been following the 2015/2016 shady campaign finances.
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/sft-5-eric-lycan.jpg?w=640&h=574
The actual Super-PAC the Ted Cruz campaign is preferring, “Stand for Truth”, is run by Mitch McConnell’s attorney, Eric Lycan; and the receipts inside the most recent filings show some of the biggest donors in the DC circuit heavy hitters club.
The Cruz campaign likes to sell a narrative of being an “outsider”. However, the PAC wasn’t created until November 18th 2015 and this recorded fundraising pitch was December 30th 2015, a little more than a month after the PAC was formed.
Why is that aspect pertinent? Not a single primary took place until Feb 1st, and almost all of the candidates were still in the race when this donor meeting took place. The Mitch McConnell/Eric Lycan “insider DC pac” known as Stand for Truth, was part of Team Cruz finance while Bush, Rubio, Christie, Fiorina et al were still in the race.
Does that sound like an unfriendly -outside of the establishment- status? Of course not. Why would the GOPe be fundraising for Ted Cruz in December/January if he was an outsider while all the other ‘establishment candidates’ were still in the race?
What this really reveals is more evidence of Ted Cruz being a GOPe insider; always part of the ‘establishment‘ from the outset. The “conservative Cruz-ruse” was simply a part of the vote ‘splitting’ strategy, all along.
So here’s the Monthly March 2016 filing in full pdf format (from the FEC portal). Take a look at how large the average donations are, in addition to what they spent almost $10 million dollars on.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/307512262
Yes, fyi – we noticed the $100,000 transfer from SfT PAC (McConnell/Lycan) to Keep The Promise PAC (Kelly Anne Conway).
In addition, if you want to understand why the campaign fundraiser would be giving instructions to donate, beyond legal limits, to the Super-PAC a great representative example can be found in the FEC filings for the Super-PAC “Club for Growth“.
If you go through the March monthly C4G filing (600+ pages) you’ll notice receipts from several donors who give $2,700 (or $5,000) over, and over, and over, and over. Further into the same filing report (when it changes to disbursements) you’ll note candidates getting the maximum contribution repeatedly from the same donors.
It appears C4G is used as a money laundry for individual donors who have exceeded their maximum donation threshold. It’s another way to contribute beyond the allowable donation limit.
Based on the Politico story, in combination with the transcript recording, it looks like that’s what the Ted Cruz campaign was instructing the donors to do – and why they are instructing them to do it.
When you look at these filings long enough, what you’ll note is the transparency of what the rich donor class are doing. It’s further ironic when you contrast this activity against Dinesh D’Sousa getting put in jail for doing the same thing independently and not using a Super-PAC to launder the money for him.
Almost all of these PACs have to file again on/around April 20th. The March activity contained within the April filing will be interesting to review.
You can visit the FEC Portal HERE
http://www.fec.gov/
Typical Cruzbot.
This has been debunked is all you have to say.
Please give us a link to the public debunking. We want to see it.
Who debunked it? Ted? Bwahahahahaha!
Jane, Cruzbots display the same personality traits as Ted.
They lie and blame others. libbylu is blaming the mods for her actions.
Who does things like that?
Lyin’ Ted Cruz.
See #81.
The to the opus were incredibly funny.
Campaigns are not supposed to coordinate with PACs. THat is supposed to be against the law.
Cruz, the Cruz campaign, and the Cruz supporters all know this because that’s all you heard when there were unproven and unprovable accusations of coordination over that ad featuring Trump’s wife, and that the Cruz campaign ALWAYS followed the letter of the law and would NEVER do anything illegal.
But now that real evidence surfaces of coordination, suddenly it’s not illegal anymore.
Another sketchy Trump blog posts yet another deceptive article.
See #81.
The responses to the opus were incredibly funny.
Support him all you want, I could care less. You will be disappointed that you did, because he is not the person you think he is. Yes he is a very smart person, which is why he has been able to pull off his deception as well as he has for years now.
I apologize for replying to you, my comment was misdirected and should have been to dynoman.
Great point!!
Rather than take responsibility....she/he deflected and blamed....just like Lyin’ Raphael.
I do think that’s a first that I’ve seen, though, blaming the mods for posting your absurd and ZOT worthy opus.
Not just the responses (to that EO) but the keywords are HILARIOUS!!!!! Did you see how many keywords? Almost an entire page worth :)
Permit less carrying of pistols gets called “Constitutional Carry” here. Very well, what am I to call my use of unlimited* (permit less ) funds to promote my political ideas??? “Constitutional publishing?”*I make no representation here that my actual contributions to any candidate exceed those “permitted” by any law, constitutional or not.
Donald Trump has risen to the top of the GOP polls by being a proud American who is unapologetic about his patriotic views. Recently, a city tried to make him take down the American flag from one of his properties, but Trump wasn’t having any of that!
The Mar-a-Lago Club is a luxurious Trump property that is located in Palm Beach, Florida. According to Conservative Tribune, Trump proudly displayed a large American flag over the property, a move which caused his wealthy liberal neighbors to complain. Authorities found that the flag was flying 50 feet above the ground, which is 20 feet higher than city ordinances allow for.
This began a major dispute between Trump and the city of Palm Beach, which tried to inflict a fine of $120,000 on the business mogul.
Finally, they came to an agreement: Trump promised to lower the flag to 30 feet and move the pole to a different area of the estate if the city would donate his $120,000 fine to veterans organizations.
“I’m a very patriotic guy. I’m very proud of the country, and I don’t want to take down the American flag,” Trump said of the incident. “And I don’t believe you need permits to put up the American flag.”
The GOP frontrunner went on to say that he received countless letters of support during this ordeal.
“Everybody wants it. Everybody wants it up. But the town wants me to take down the American flag, and I told them I’m not doing that,” Trump said before he struck his brilliantly generous deal.
Typical Cruzbot.
This has been debunked is all you have to say.
Please give us a link to the public debunking. We want to see it.
Who debunked it? Ted? Bwahahahahaha!
Mcconnells exlawyer is the lawyer for the super pac. The main guy is is a former Texas republican treasurer and an old Cruz backer. Just because the lawyer for the super pac used to be connected to McConnell..... that doesn’t prove is he’s now part of the McConnell wing of the party. That’s a stretch beyond idiotic.
I don’t doubt trump is patriotic. putting up a huge flag doesn’t make you patriotic. Just as carrying a bible doesn’t make you religious....sometimes they are props to fool people
You’re a little late as I was to recognize the truth about Ted Cruz. Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3419117/posts
And spare me your “trumpets” crap, I was one of the earliest and strongest supporters in the Spring of 2015, saying and believing the same you posted above. And now I regret it, immensely and I’m pissed at Cruz, so much so that if he ever came within arm’s reach of me, I’d floor him.
Such sound logic and rebuttal.
I thought all you Branch tRumpidians got your panties in a wade when someone “threatened” a presidential candidate and a US Senator to boot.
I guess that only counts if it's the Donald supposedly being threatened.
the dumbassery is strong in this one
Both of you nobodies can perform your circle jerk act on another thread. Now get lost!
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