Oh Oh. Not only is it true, but Iowa’s Secretary of State believes it’s “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses”.
The Iowa secretary of State on Saturday rebuked Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s controversial use of a mailer to encourage turnout at the Feb. 1 caucuses.
“Today I was shown a piece of literature from the Cruz for President campaign that misrepresents the roll of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election law,” Paul Pate said in a statement released by his office.
The Cruz campaign sent out “report cards” in Iowa purporting to grade residents and their neighbors on their voter participation in past caucuses.
Formatted to look like an official document, the mailer is marked with the words “voting violation” at the top of the page in a large red box.
“Accusing citizens of Iowa of a ‘voting violation’ based on Iowa Caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act,” Pate continued in the statement. “There is no such thing as an election violation related to frequency of voting.
“Any institution or statement to the contrary is wrong and I believe is not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses,” he added.
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This was beyond stupid and I would be furious if something like this was sent to me.
BTW Stella I just read something that ticked me off, I do not like blatant lies. I’ll copy the comment here and am going to see if I can find who said it on AT. Just thought you and Wee and the rest might like to know about lies being spread. I saw it in comments at Trevor Loudon’s blog.
The most obnoxious Trump supporters all wave around Conservative TreeHouse as a source reference, like it is a ‘blankey’.
BUT, on American Thinker, someone posted this information:
“Sundance, aka Mark Ivor Bradman, Conservative Treehouse blog owner- prior to Obama’s 2008 win, Bradman and most of his current admins at the treehouse were major Hillary Clinton supporters on a now extinct blog. He very MUCH wanted a Hillary Clinton presidency in 2008.
He now trashes Ted Cruz on a daily- if not hourly- basis. He trashes American Thinker and Breitbart because they do not trash Ted Cruz.
So forgive me if I am hesitant to follow along with his supporters in a very emotional fever for Trump and everyone else be damned mantra”
CTH has been rabid Trump supporters since he joined the race….but in the head to head match up polls, Trump is the only one who loses to Hillary….Cruz and Rubio both win over her. I don’t know if CTH actually supports Trump….or they want Hillary to still win in 2016!! Hope this helps!
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Thanks, michellc. I’ll look too.
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Which article at AT, Michelle? BTW – it’s crap, of course. Who ARE these people???
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I just answered the person who posted it on the Trevor Loudon blog. You can too, if you want to.
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/01/don-fairly-does-not-exist/
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Good answer.
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I’m not sure Wee.
I saw a comment at IOTWR linking to Trevor Loudon’s blog. I went to it not knowing what it was about, then read the comments and saw that comment.
Here’s a link:
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/01/don-fairly-does-not-exist/
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Found it:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/trump_versus_reason_comments.html
Comment is by “FivexFive”
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What’s your real name, then, FivexFive?
Would you cry foul if you were “doxxed”?
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We can start here:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=FivexFive
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Michigander?
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No doxing, please. I found another comment like this one on another post three days ago (look at his disqus account) and was able to answer that one.
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Roger.
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By reading the comments on the Disqus account, WeeWeed determined that it is a woman, a real estate agent in Western North Carolina.
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Unfortunately, the comments are closed on that thread.
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It being two months old, nobody would read a reply anyway. Searching for key phrases in the comment reveals that the comment has been spread throughout the blogosphere.
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I just saw the comment you and waltzingmtilda replied to. SD a rabid Hillary fan. This woman has to either be crazy or has declared SD her sworn enemy or spreading lies told to her by a liberal.
I can’t wait to see if she replies back to ya. I’m sure it’s much easier to spread lies when you’re not confronted with your lies.
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Uh, oh. Somebody gonna lose his job. 🙄
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Here is the person who is telling lies about CTH, Sundance, and the admins. You can read his comments, too:
https://disqus.com/by/disqus_gXPlSrWzNv/
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I’m glad you found them Stella.
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With lots of help from taqi! And thanks again for tipping us off.
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I’m glad I saw it. I know all of you well enough by now to know what BS it was and I hate lies especially about those I like.
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Has she replied back to you? I just went to the disqus link to find out and she’s made her account private now.
I guess it was much more fun to spread lies when nobody was confronting you.
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Yes, she did reply, and I replied back. I noticed the “private” status, and so far she has been quiet. We think we know who she might be.
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Do you have a link to the article she replied to?
I always empty my history when I log off and forgot to save the links on AT and Breitbart.
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Sure. This is the one where she and I “talked”. You will also see WeeWeed:
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/breitbartproduction/south_carolina_tea_partiers_choose_sides_in_cruz_trump_battle/?utm_source=reply&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read_more#comment-2487368012
By the way, the author over at the Loudon blog answered me, and allowed me to comment again.
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Anyone with half a brain can see she has an axe to grind and is only wanting to smear SD. I agree with Wee, what did she do get booted and went away mad?
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Whether this came from Cruz or not, it would tick me off.
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I did get a chuckle over the follow up notice may be issued after the caucus? LOL I have a weird sense of humor, cuz I was thinkin’, yeah, you bring me that!!!LOL
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your information!! I have asked, several times, and researched…..trying to find out who ‘Sundance’ really is!!!
There are too many people…especially, Trump supporters who hang on Sundance’s every word. I always want to know who and what people are before I give them credibility!! Thank You!!
! always want to know who and what people are before I give them credibility…. except for now…. I’ll believe anything negative you (or anyone) can type about ‘Sundance’…..
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Some people just really need a life. Not talkin bout you Nyet!
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….. not specifically anyway….
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Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow
Watching the same people not outraged when Cruz was called a fake Christian now pretend to be outraged by a mailer is, well, horse puckey.
2:46 PM – 30 Jan 2016
From the tree, and me? just sayin, dirty politics all around from all of them, assuming Cruz sent this
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Meant to put the above except for the last two sentences in parenthesis.
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Cruz Bots like Brent Bozell are fine with the Gestapo like tactics.
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Sundance
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Um, which one?
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The one in front. That is me in the background. Now, don’t tell anyone. The fate of Earth hangs in the balance.
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I received one of these mailers in 2012 and 2014 from the Dems, but I read in the Toledo Blade that the GOPe was sending them as well. The difference was, for my mailings, they did not list people’s names, whose addresses are easily found from property records. There was also no implied violations or “follow-up” threat. And, for the record, my gas company does the same thing every three months, listing my gas usage and that of nearby homes, sans addreeses. Those do not work either.
I think the Cruz campaign took it too far. They seemed to use the same tactics that are used on older people, that we are so often warned about, imo. I read the original article from the university who conducted the study. One of those authors also said the Cruz campaign took it too far. I feel sorry for them. One small thing I learned from my vile ex – don’t do things for which you will be sorry.
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Does anyone think that there is one single voter who this mailing influenced in a positive way to vote or caucus for Cruz?
People are being paid millions of dollars to come up with ideas like this mailer. And we are supposed to hand our country over to people who make decisions like this.
SMH
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I often wonder if I’m just an oddball because many things they do turn me off. Like the constant begging for money, does that really make people want to send them money?
It’s always something similar:
If you don’t send me money I will fail because my opponent is spending millions of dollars.
Do you want your guns, send me money.
The liberal democrats have raised X millions of dollars, if you care about the 2nd amendment, Pro-Life, blah, blah you must donate or we will not be able to compete.
You beg me for money or try to guilt me into sending you money and chances are I’m not sending you a dime, but I might stuff your return envelope and mail it back to you.
Keep it up on my e-mail and if I can’t be removed from your list I send it all to spam.
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I agree about the begging for money thing. Can this possibly inspire anyone to send a buck? I saw it and my first thought was, pathetic.
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Actually at the rate Jeb! is going he might get some donations with a little clever wording, instead of begging people to chip in with $1 he should get a “Buck Jeb!” fund raiser going 😎
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I would shred my last dollar if I had to send it to Jeb.
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