Ted Cruz lies to his supporters about taking lobbyist money

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Ted Cruz lies to his supporters about taking lobbyist money

by Hunter at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/4/1479325/-Ted-Cruz-lies-to-his-supporters-about-taking-lobbyist-money

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In an email to grassroots supporters sent Tuesday afternoon, Cruz begged recipients to hurry up and send cash to help him fight "the Washington cartel," and he claimed falsely that "I will never get—nor do I want—money from the D.C. lobbyists or the special interest billionaires."

Not only is this not true; it's easy to prove, for Cruz has a well-documented history of bagging money from lobbyists and special interest billionaires.

It is easy to prove because, as everyone but Ted Cruz apparently knows by now, such things are tracked. We know Ted Cruz took money from fabulously wealthy casino troll Sheldon Adelson, and more money from his family. We know Ted Cruz has taken money from lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, and from Koch Industries, and so on. We know his super PAC is bankrolled by wealthy contributors throwing millions of dollars at a time his way, because that is after all the precise point of having a super PAC.

So the "grassroots" Ted Cruz is lying his behind off in a spectacular and easily proved way, presumably on the assumption that anyone brickheaded enough to consider voting for Ted Cruz is far too ignorant of actual news or politics to ever notice otherwise. The man, to be sure, knows his audience.



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