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In TV Ad, Ted Cruz Accuses John Kasich of Cronyism
”Ahead of Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is targeting John Kasich with a TV attack ad for the first time, suggesting that Mr. Kasich engaged in cronyism as Ohio’s governor.
“The commercial brings up Mr. Kasich’s lucrative earnings as a board member of Worthington Industries, an Ohio-based steel processor, before saying that the company received hundred of thousands of dollars in tax breaks after Mr. Kasich became governor. The ad also says that the company laid off workers last year, while its chief executive donated $500,000 to an outside group supporting Mr. Kasich.”
Running for president is real simple. You just have to surgically disconnect your shame sensor because you spend every waking moment asking people for money. You walk up to total strangers. You go, ‘hey how you doing, can you give me some money? That’s a lovely tie. Please give me money.’ That’s politics in a nutshell.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), to Stephen Colbert, on what it’s like running for president. September 21, 2015 (The Late Show)
Though, as Every Voice President David Donnelly wrote this summer, the policies Cruz has offered so far would only make that money chase worse.
(via talkingaboutmoneyin2016)
There’s too much corporate welfare, too much cronyism and corrupt dealmaking, by the Washington cartel. For too long, career politicians in both parties have supported government of the lobbyist, by the lobbyist, and for the lobbyist – at the expense of the taxpayers. It’s a time for truth. And a time to honor our commitments to the voters.
Ted Cruz in New Hampshire this weekend: Lift all contribution limits on campaign cash.
Need something to do this weekend? Rep. Steve King is hosting Sen. Ted Cruz in Iowa for a pheasant hunt fundraiser on Saturday.
$30 gets you a ticket, but $2,500 gets you a hotel stay and makes you a member of “King’s Inner Circe.”
These four elected officials–U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-KY.), Govs. John Kasich (R-Ohio) and Nikki Haley (R-S.C.)–all attended the billionaire Koch brothers’ summit with the country’s “leading conservative donors” in California this weekend, according to the New York Times.
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Those discussions unfolded over two days at the Renaissance Esmeralda, a sprawling golf resort that has previously hosted the Kochs’ twice-yearly conferences. The atmosphere was equal parts revival and situation room, participants said: Phones and electronic devices were banned from some panels, as Koch strategists detailed next year’s electoral battlegrounds and donors committed contributions to particular states or projects.