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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2015, 12:00 AM Apr 2015

Why You Should Not Vote For Ted Cruz In 2016

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Why You Should Not Vote For Ted Cruz In 2016 (Original Post) wildbilln864 Apr 2015 OP

Sorry! Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship so we won't have him back! delrem Apr 2015 #1

https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #2

Cruz tries to win the West by taking our public lands 2naSalit Apr 2015 #3

Todays republicans IHateTheGOP Apr 2015 #4

trust me cindyperry Apr 2015 #5

change? wildbilln864 Apr 2015 #6

chance cindyperry Apr 2015 #7

delrem

(9,688 posts)

1. Sorry! Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship so we won't have him back!

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 01:10 AM

Apr 2015

bzzzzzzzzt! You lose!
SUCKERS!

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

2. https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg

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Fri Apr 10, 2015, 01:14 AM

Apr 2015

2naSalit

(86,868 posts)

3. Cruz tries to win the West by taking our public lands

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 02:53 AM

Apr 2015

Cruz tries to win the West by taking our public lands

Koch Bros. will smile at his attempt to auction off our lands-

Ted Cruz has jumped on the billionaire’s land grab wagon by offering a bill requiring the federal government to give away or sell off what he terms “excess lands,” whether they be our national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges or BLM lands.

Some Democrat-leaning groups say he has been “bribed” by the Koch Brothers, but there is no evidence that money has changed hands or that there is a quid pro quo. More likely, the ultra-conservative senator from Texas, a place with essentially no public lands, sees his bill as a way to indirectly get their support. More immediately, he could strategize it will get him support in the presidential primary elections in Nevada, Idaho, and other states in the West. Presidential primaries, of course, do not attract a representative public, but rather the partisan public. Among Republicans in the West, that is far to the right.

The effort to take away the public domain is not popular in the West, only with Western political elites in livestock, mining, oil and gas, logging, and rural Republican county commissioners and state legislators. The Western Values Project shows majority support for keeping the public lands as public and federal in every Western state, except for Utah.

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/04/09/cruz-tries-to-win-the-west-by-taking-our-public-lands/