Ted Cruz appoints couple behind anti-gay marriage billboards to Iowa team

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ted Cruz appoints couple behind anti-gay marriage billboards to Iowa team

Adam Gabbatt in New York
Tuesday 4 August 2015 20.37 BST

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen a couple who are aiming to put up 1,000 billboards attacking same-sex marriage to be part of his Iowa leadership team.

Betty and Richard Odgaard, who lost a civil case in January after refusing to allow a gay couple to marry at their restaurant, have already erected one anti-gay marriage billboard in Oklahoma. They were added to Cruz’s Iowa team on Tuesday.

Announcing their appointment, the Cruz campaign described the Odgaards as “courageous conservatives” who will form part of “a strong leadership team to win the Iowa caucuses”.

The Odgaards erected the first billboard of their planned 1,000 on 24 July. On the Facebook page of their ministry, God’s Original Design, they described the billboard as a “14’x48’ lighted beauty”.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/04/ted-cruz-odgaard-same-sex-marriage-iowa-caucuses

Earlier: Iowa couple plans to put up 1,000 billboards against same-sex marriage (The Guardian)

[shenmue]

1. Their billboard campaign only raised a little over $150

[tomm2thumbs]

2. they have money. he wants some of it. quite simple.

He's a carnival barker and is trying to keep his refrigerator full of the best meat money can buy, and that takes moolah. No secret there.

[pinto]

3. Oy.