Cruz super PAC claim: $37 million raised

[cali]

Three of the top ten conservative donors in the last presidential election are giving to the super PACs supporting Ted Cruz that now claim to have raised more than $37 million to support his bid, a shocking haul and donor list for such a populist Republican candidate amid a crowded 2016 field.

ajor Republican donor Robert Mercer, whose family foundation's accountant serves as the treasurer for one of the the Texas senator's super PACs, is also expected to have donated substantially to the groups. Together, this trifecta of donors could give lift to a fundraising operation once predicted to lag significantly behind its competitors.

Cruz appeared Tuesday night at a kickoff fundraiser for the constellation of four groups -- all of which are titled with variations of "Keep the Promise." About 45 donors heard Cruz at the Knickerbocker Club in New York City, showing that support is wider than any individual donor, the Cruz source said.

The Cruz super PACs wowed some top Republicans by saying within two weeks after Cruz announced his presidential bid that it had raised $31 million. That haul might be expected by Cruz competitors such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has long been admired by the nation's business elite, but was surprising for a tea party firebrand who has relished in fighting the political class.

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http://www.kspr.com/news/politics/cruz-super-pac-claim-37-million-raised/21051736_33378610

[daleanime]

1. Scary thought....

[djean111]

2. I can see where it is a great investment - doesn't Cruz' religion, Dominionism, want to establish

a theocracy and then award all money and property of non-Christians to Christians? Helluva deal!

This article is from 2013, but I think things in Cruzland bode even less well for the rest of us, and those people have a lot of money - which, I am told, is the most important thing for a candidate to have -

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/30/left-accept-ted-cruz-dominionist-messiah.html

According to New Beginnings’ dominionist pastor, Larry Huch, Ted Cruz got elected to the senate because God is about to begin his “rule and reign” and there will be a big “end-time transfer of wealth.” Somehow, transfering wealth is a good thing when the money is being taken from non-believers and awarded the church but bad if rich folks and corporations are expected to pay their way.

It is no coincidence that those rich folks and corporations are big supporters of people like Ted Cruz.
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The Religious Right needs a messiah because their weaponized Jesus is just a name for them. Jesus, who is every other Christian’s messiah, can’t be their messiah because Jesus reviled the wrong people: the rich, not the poor. Jesus’ transfer of wealth therefore came at the problem of wealth from the wrong direction, from rich to poor.

That is not at all what Cruz & Co. have in mind. Liberals and progressives might laugh at what they see as a bunch of mystical mumbo jumbo, but they would do well to realize that Ted Cruz and his fellow heretics who pack those megachurches every Sunday are deadly serious.

Come February, realize that the government shut down is just a small part of the overall end-times picture. Worried about that $24 billion Ted Cruz owes us? Don’t be. It’s just the tip of the ice berg because when the time comes, Cruz & Co. expect not only to be sitting on top, but to get rich as a result.