"In 2014 Cruz was named a 'Leader of Liberty' ..." Whose "leader" and whose "liberty"? Not that of "we the people", that's for sure!

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COMMENTS: 
*  If Cruz is in bed this much with corporations he is not fit for President. When will we see a real leader step forward. Someone for the people. I see nothing on either side for the people.
*  Total Republican, they have no concern for our needs. They are simply interested in protecting the hand that feeds them. Thank God for the internet, now in a flash we are able to see how these politicians turn their backs on our needs. Remember this when you head out to vote.
*  There is a reason the GOP and Republicans are better know now as Repugnicans....Cruz is exhibit A (of many) of that more accurate name. The guy who brought us a 2+ week gov't shutdown costing an incremental $20-24 BILLION (so much for fiscal responsibility) driven soley by ideology ( so much for "governance"), engineered the 1st S&P credit downgrade of US debt....ever and is actively pushing to force the fed gov't to sell off most of the national forest, forrest preserves and national parks lands (goodbye Yellowstone, Old Faithful, Mt Ranier, Zion, Arcadia, The Grand Tetons, The Grand Canyon etc) to private developers to "save money" for....guess what....another mid east war or another tax cut/tax break for the 1%.
*  Cruz,, like the rest of the clowns, do not expect to win any way,, they are just selling their books, and getting paid campaign contributions , to do the book signing tour.. Pretty slick. I bet lil Scotty Walker is jealous, He missed the Kock sucking event.
*  The only thing that will beat money during elections is a large voter turnout. Across the board. Maybe I'm too optimistic but I believe the collective intelligence of a broad cross section of the voting country will save us from the likes of Cruz. What's the consequence of failing to vote? Those that do are entitled to run our lives. That will be the evangelicals, the t party types, the racists and bigots, those controlled by big business. For better or worse, they're motivated to vote.  I believe in America and our overall better judgment. We just have to go to the polls and demonstrate it.
*   Kochs pull the choke collar and Rafael "heels" just like he is taught. Walker too has that big choke collar one and a lot of the other losers. Why do they think they can go to "secret" meetings and it does not get out. Where are the Democrat "Secret" meetings with backers.....don't see those..........sure there may be a few but for the most part I see big choke collars on big GOP candidates with their handlers being Koch and Mr, Mercer of Tax evasion fame.
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Ted Cruz at Secret Koch-Backed Fracking Lobby Group Meeting
By Nick Surgey, July 13, 2015

Senator Ted Cruz, raising cash for a 2016 presidential bid, was to meet privately Monday in Denver, Colorado with executives from major oil and gas corporations, all members of the pro-fracking lobby group Western Energy Alliance (WEA), according to details of the secret meeting shared with the Center for Media and Democracy.

The Republican presidential candidate, a climate change denier, is also a leading proponent of opening up federal lands in the west -- in fact virtually all lands everywhere -- to energy development, and for scrapping regulations on oil and gas development.

Members of the forty year old Western Energy Alliance include massive fracking corporations like Devon Energy, Encana, Whiting, and Halliburton, as well as Koch Exploration Company, the fracking arm of the Charles and David Koch's sprawling energy business.

Cruz sponsored legislation in the Senate in 2015 -- the American Energy Renaissance Act -- that would limit federal regulations on fracking, ostensibly providing states the ability to lease federal land to energy companies for fracking.

Signalling to the Cruz anti-climate agenda if he were elected President, the extraordinarily broad act would also block the implementation of the Clean Power Plan to limit carbon pollution from coal plants, increase offshore drilling, immediately approve the Keystone-XL pipeline, open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy extraction, eliminate renewable energy mandates, end the forty year old ban on crude oil exports and expand the exportation of natural gas to foreign countries.

Cruz And Koch Network Longtime Friends

Cruz has been a longtime recipient of praise and support from the Kochs and their network.

In 2014 Cruz was named a "Leader of Liberty" by the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, receiving that group's highest score, a perfect 100 on its "AFP Scorecard." He was previously a fellow at the Koch-backed Texas Public Policy Foundation, affiliated with the Koch-funded State Policy Network.

Cruz is due to speak at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in San Diego, California on July 24th, and will then present at the Americans for Prosperity national "Defending the American Dream" Summit in Dallas in late August.

According to Politico, Cruz, wearing cowboy boots, spoke earlier this year at a private January, 2015 summit organized by Charles and David Koch in Palm Springs, California, at which he lavished praise on the brothers.

"I admire Charles and David Koch. They are businessman who have created hundreds of thousands of jobs and they have stood up for free-market principles and endured vilification with equanimity and grace," Cruz said to cheers from the audience, according to Politico.

The Center for Media and Democracy requested access to attend the meeting in Denver, but was refused. 
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