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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The New Cruzians Are Ready to Make Life Hell for Mitch McConnell'
The New Cruzians Are Ready to Make Life Hell for Mitch McConnellby Patricia Murphy at the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/17/the-new-cruzians-are-ready-to-make-life-hell-for-mitch-mcconnell.html
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McConnells difficult job will be made enormously more complicated by the makeup of his incoming three-seat majority. It includes at least three senators eyeing a run for president (Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul), and 11 new Republican members, three of whom have been pegged by grassroots activists as the conservative cavalry riding in as reinforcements for the Cruz wing of the party.
Those senatorsJoni Ernst of Iowa, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Ben Sasse from Nebraskawere all breakout stars for activists in the 2014 cycle. They raked in millions of dollars from outside groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund, and are the three that conservatives like Steve Deace, the nationally syndicated conservative radio host from Iowa, say they expect the most from.
What I heard from conservatives I talked to around the country during the election was Who is going to go there and help out Cruz and [Sen. Mike] Lee? Who is going to help out the wacko birds? said Deace, referring to the derisive term Sen. John McCain once used to describe Cruz that conservatives now wear as a badge of honor. Our expectation is that [Ernst, Cotton and Sasse] are going to join the ranks of the wacko birds. Thats our expectation.
Deace and his listeners wont be the only ones looking to the trio to for results. So will conservative donors. The Senate Conservatives Fund and its affiliate Senate Conservatives Action, for example, plowed millions into the Iowa, Nebraska and Arkansas races. Ernst received nearly $450,000 in bundled contributions and $475,000 in independent expenditures from the groups for her race. Sasse got $487,000 in bundled contributions and more than $835,000 in outside expenditures in his GOP primary. Cotton picked up about $200,000 in bundled SCF money and saw more than $500,000 in outside SCF money in his race against Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.
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"The New Cruzians Are Ready to Make Life Hell for Mitch McConnell' (Original Post)
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(17,320 posts)2. IMO, Cruz is a dangerous, powermad and ignorant man. nt