Posted on 01/15/2016 8:01:25 PM PST by SteveSCH
Ted Cruz might say he has a problem with "New York values," but he seems happy to take New York money...
...Cruz's campaign raised $223,750 from New Yorkers, according to finance reports available through September. Robert Mercer, the hedge fund investor who has given $11 million to a pro-Cruz super PAC and is one of his most important backers, lives on Long Island.
Those donors are not coming to his defense now.
Ian Reisner, the hotelier who, with his business partner Mati Weiderpass, hosted a Central Park South fundraiser for Cruz last year, declined to comment. So did Michael Waldorf, managing director at the hedge fund led by billionaire Republican donor John Paulson.
Squaring his conservative rhetoric with his coastal cash drives was already awkward for Cruz. At a December fundraiser at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in Lower Manhattan, Cruz assured a Republican gay-rights supporter that he would not make opposing same-sex marriage a top priority as president, according to a recording obtained by POLITICO.
...Cruz has been tapping the Big Apple's big-money scene for years: New Yorkers also gave $489,883 to his 2012 Senate campaign, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Then there's Goldman Sachs, the New York-based investment bank where Cruz's wife works. (She took a leave of absence in March.) His presidential campaign has accepted $43,575 from people at the company, and his Senate campaign received $96,700, not to mention the loan from the bank that he failed to report on his Federal Election Commission disclosure form, as The New York Times revealed this week.
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You People are falling into the trap. This is all BS invented by the enemy.
I’ve been fighting trolls on this board for years, and you bear the stink of one, noobie.
Those two fellas just so happened to be strongly pro Israel, and thought Mr Cruz was the most pro Israel candidate out there.
:) cruz blanket insulted the state of NY then narrowed it to NYC.
His ‘apology” is only to say he is sorry the people of that stated voted in leaders that they chose and cruz is “sorry” the people are living with what they chose?
maybe you can try looking at the root of the issue, not just that “good samaritan” cruz is trying to show he feels sorry (apologizes) for what he believes is wrong with NYC people’s choice of leaders?
Cruz still never apologized for insulting their values, which are also some of Cruz’s twisted values - to say he is anti gay marriage yet word himself while attending dinner/meetings In NYC and TX in ways to seem accepting of gay marriage likely in attempt to obtain donations. He’s double speaking on things.
The leaders of NYC don’t have to apologize - they were elected by majority of people in the city/state who know full well their views/agenda.
UNFORTUNATELY too many conservative people hightail it out of cities as they start to become liberal and thus we have liberal cities voting “speaking” for whole states in elections! Instead of running to “safer”/conservative places, if more conservatives stayed or moved into liberal places we could help shift some elections back more conservative. Otherwise pretty soon conservatives are gonna run out of conservative states soon!
$ eh?
Must have gotten his staff to throw that together, eh?
Why so only you can pontificate?
Oh yes lots of support. Really?
$ from the Crony capitalists , I would guess. Goldman Sachs etc
Ditto
Your temperance and search for knowledge has served you well, weed-hopper.
Welcome to FR.
Politico sucks. The cowards pulled the Disqus feed.
I live in a Seattle suburb, and if some politician criticized “Seattle values” - e.g., gay, gay, and more gay - I would not be offended. The region has a reputation, and that reputation does not correspond to what I believe, so as a conservative I would not be offended at the term.
Hmmmm ..?? Well .. I was born in NY, Oswego to be exact, and I lived in the northern part of the state for quite a few years, and unless you live in NYC or Ithica .. you might be very surprised how many people will vote for Cruz.
Sorry you’re so narrow minded.
“run of the meal”
What the heck is that ..
I think you meant .. RUN OF THE MILL
And .. I totally disagree that’s he’s a “run of the mill” person in any way.
Typo.
Mill is correct.
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