Posted on 02/24/2018 10:31:30 AM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's fundraising lagged far behind his top Democratic challenger during the first six weeks of 2018, a new federal campaign filing shows.
Cruz raised $800,000 through Feb. 14. That’s well below El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s $2.3 million haul, according to the most recent federal report.
The Republican also spent more than he raised — nearly $1.2 million, while O’Rourke burned through roughly $2 million in his bid to unseat the powerhouse incumbent.
Both face nominal competition in March 6 primaries and most nonpartisan handicappers view Cruz as the heavy favorite in his Senate re-election bid this fall.
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Seems he's one of a bunch that are pissed at two things:
1. Cruz did not disclose he was a Canadian Citizen in 2012.
2. His virulent, dirty campaign against Trump.
Fredo should have thought about 2018 when he was making an Azz out of himself at the GOP convention and got booed off the stage.
O’Rourke is drug money
In 2012 Ted Cruz didn't tell you he was a Canadian.
Fundraising numbers indicate the donor class is clearly going after Cruz.
Both face nominal competition in March 6 primaries and most nonpartisan handicappers view Cruz as the heavy favorite in his Senate re-election bid this fall.
Beto wants unlimitied illegal immigration. A radical lefty. Like Cruz said, liberals will be crawling over glass to vote in the mid terms. We better do the same. Tucker interviewed Beto not too long ago. Watch that interview-it’s all you need to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke
Minutemen
In August 2005, a resolution was drafted by O’Rourke and fellow council member Steve Ortega, calling on city officials to discourage the anti-illegal immigrant Minutemen from patrolling the local stretch of the Texas-Mexico border and “reject civilian attempts to enforce immigration law.” The Minutemen’s spokesman Shannon McGauley said his group planned to go ahead with October operations in El Paso, despite the resolution.[citation needed]
Recall
In 2006, O’Rourke survived an attempt to recall him regarding an El Paso Downtown Redevelopment plan. South Side activist Carmen Felix initiated a recall petition drive against him on May 3, 2006. Despite the threat of recall, O’Rourke continued to strongly advocate the use of eminent domain in conjunction with the plan to redevelop downtown El Paso. At the El Paso city council meeting held on July 9, 2006, still under threat of recall, he showed a distinct change in tone toward the El Paso Downtown Revitalization Plan. He responded to a question posed by fellow city councilman Lozano as to whether residents displaced by new construction “could come back to the area”, responding in assurance that the city would make “every effort” to ensure displaced residents were allowed to remain in their same neighborhoods.[citation needed]
Ethics complaint
On September 5, 2006, the Land Grab Opponents of El Paso filed an ethics complaint with the City of El Paso, citing the business relationship between O’Rourke and the Paso del Norte Group, developers who had proposed a Downtown Revitalization Plan for El Paso. O’Rourke’s own company, Stanton Street Technology Group, was providing Internet and Information Technology services to Paso del Norte. O’Rourke’s father-in-law, William Sanders, was a leader in the Paso del Norte Group. The complaint said “O’Rourke is impermissibly entangled in the Paso del Norte Group’s Downtown Revitalization Plan, through both family and business ties”.[21] The complaint raised objections to two votes by O’Rourke, one to extend Paso del Norte’s contract with the city in 2005 and another to accept the group’s redevelopment proposal in March. It alleged that O’Rourke’s participation in these votes “violated his fiduciary duty to the citizens of El Paso”.[21] The city’s Ethics Review Commission summarily dismissed this complaint on October 12, 2006. The Land Grab Opponents filed a second complaint that suggested that the CFO of Sanders’s company, The Verde Group, prepared O’Rourke’s income tax return in 2006. This complaint was dismissed on October 18, 2006.
An attorney for the Land Grab Opponents said the ethics complaints were filed to make O’Rourke recuse himself from debating and voting on the plan.[22] O’Rourke abstained from voting when the Council considered establishing a Downtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.[citation needed]
There’s a bunch of Republicans in Texas that won’t vote for him.
Whether that’s enough to turn the election in that solid red state is the question.
Probably not.
But don’t expect a landslide.
The Dallas Morning News daily promotes the dems and their agenda, so I can’t believe everything they say.
Your cousin has a point but the larger point is that President Trump needs more Republicans in Congress.
Tell your cousin to bury the hatchet and get Cruz reelected because Trump needs him. Seriously, I was angry at Cruz too but the fact is he now supports the President and we all need that. Ted has behaved well behind Trump since 2016.
Tell all Texans that unless they have a viable candidate to replace Cruz (they don’t), they must reelect him because he is now good for President Trump. That’s the bottom line.
Ping.
“That’s the bottom line”
Yep, and I expect Trump will offer a full-throated endorsement.
I’d rather have Cruz in the U.S. Senate than that chickenshit Cornyn. Strictly Bush-league.
Tell your cuz we’re better off with a self-serving narcissist with an R after his name than one with a D.
This will make many of you happy. You’ll prefer a Democrat.
I guess your anti-Cruz post is part of your promised 2018 jihad against those who voted for Trump’s tax legislation? Your California ‘RAT friends no doubt love you
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