- Sen. Ted Cruz
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Press Release from Conservative Leaders (Independent of the Campaign)
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 11, 2016
Contact:
For
Richard Viguerie:
Bob Sturm
For Ken
Cuccinelli:
Mallory
Rascher
Rebecca
Hagelin
CONSERVATIVE
LEADERS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF SENATOR TED CRUZ
WASHINGTON,
DC – Today, over sixty conservative leaders announced their
support of
Senator Ted Cruz for the Republican Presidential Nomination. The
coalition, which formed within 24 hours, warns Republicans voting
in
the March 15 primaries that Donald Trump embodies the "Big
Government
cronyism" that conservatives like Ted Cruz are fighting. In
an open
letter, the leaders urge fellow conservatives to join them in
support
of Senator Cruz, the only presidential candidate with a record of
standing for limited government and conservative values.
“Ted
Cruz is the only candidate who can credibly run for president as a
full-spectrum conservative, build a winning conservative coalition AND
who can be trusted to, without question, govern according to limited
government constitutional conservative principles. That’s why I say to
my fellow conservatives, 'What are you waiting for? In Ted Cruz
conservatives have a candidate that’s everything we want.' We
urge
Republican primary voters to vote for Ted Cruz in the upcoming March 15
primaries and unite that winning conservative coalition NOW.”
- Richard
Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com
"Once
again last night, Ted Cruz demonstrated on issue after issue
conservative solutions to the challenges that confront America. Whether
the issue is social security, economic opportunity or national
security, Ted Cruz had a well-thought-out and conservative solution to
each of these challenges. He showed a depth that was unmatched on the
stage in the most recent debate and Ted needs and deserves the support
of every movement conservative right now."
- Ken
Cuccinelli, Former Virginia Attorney General
“Ted
Cruz will move swiftly and effectively to restore the Constitution and
America's good name; and in so doing, will secure a 'new birth of
freedom' for us and our children."
- Rebecca
Hagelin, Board of Directors, FamilyTalk; Secretary, Council for
National Policy
OPEN
LETTER TO AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES and PATRIOTS:
Donald
Trump’s growing delegate count should focus the mind of every
conservative on exactly what a Trump nomination would mean to each of
the three legs of Ronald Reagan’s conservative coalition, and to our
new 21st Century conservative coalition partners of the
Tea
Party and liberty movements. The conservative signers below
have come
together to sign this most important letter, and ask you to join us on
this urgent mission.
On March
15, just a few days from now, the states of Florida, Illinois,
Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and the Territory of the Northern
Mariana Islands will vote; their votes will allocate 367 delegates and
could put Donald Trump – or principled limited government
constitutional conservative Senator Ted Cruz – over half way to the
1,237 delegates required to win the Republican nomination for president.
The
possibility of a Trump victory in the March 15 primaries
should
convince conservatives that unless we coalesce behind Ted Cruz, the
conservative agenda will be stalled for at least another decade.
Cultural
conservatives in particular should recognize that the nomination of
Donald Trump would mean Republicans would field one of the most
thoroughly secular candidates for President ever to represent either of
America’s major political parties.
Trump
is the poster boy for the kind of Big Business – Big Government
cronyism that stacks the deck against new market entrants and uses
pay-to-play politics to protect and give advantages to those who are
prepared to buy influence with politicians – as Donald Trump has
regularly bragged he does.
Likewise,
Donald Trump’s views on national security and national defense should
give pause to every conservative. While Trump’s testosterone-fueled
rants to “knock the Hell out of ISIS” sound conservative to the
establishment media, they bear little resemblance to Ronald Reagan’s
“peace through strength” philosophy and policies.
Ted
Cruz is everything we conservatives have been waiting for in a
candidate for President. We urge you to pull out all the stops to
inform your conservative friends, contacts in your network of
associates, newsletters, press appearances, etc. about Donald Trump’s
record and policies and to do everything possible to ensure that
Senator Ted Cruz comes away with the most delegates from the March
15 Republican primaries and from this effort we build a solid and
united conservative movement behind him going forward to the Republican
National Convention in Cleveland.
We,
the undersigned, with great respect for those with divergent views on
the strengths of any one candidate, with an urgent sense of purpose for
the future of our constitutional republic that may be permanently and
irreparably harmed unless we act, and with thought and prayer for
guidance from Almighty God, urge all conservatives to unite with us
behind the only candidate for the Republican nomination who stands a
chance of defeating Donald Trump -- and that candidate is Ted Cruz.
Organizations
for
identification
purposes
only
Richard
A. Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
Rebecca
Hagelin, Board of Directors, FamilyTalk; Secretary,
Council for National Policy
Morton
Blackwell, Chairman, Conservative Leadership PAC
Ken
Cuccinelli, Former Virginia Attorney General
Jerry
A. Johnson, Ph.D., President and CEO, National
Religious Broadcasters
Frank
Gaffney, President, the Center for Security Policy
Erick
Erickson, Editor of The Resurgent
Sandy
Rios, Director of Governmental Affairs for AFA
Barbara
Ledeen, Jews for Cruz
Tim
Macy, Chairman, Gun Owners of America
Brian
S. Brown, President, National Organization for
Marriage
Elaine
Donnelly, President, Center for Military Readiness
Penny
Nance, CEO and President, Concerned Women for America
Jenny
Beth Martin, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund,
Chairman
Terry
Schilling, Executive Director, American Principles
Project
Dr.
Rick Scarborough, President, Vision America Action
Kelly
Shackelford, Esq, President/CEO, First Liberty
Institute
Angelo
Codevilla, Professor emeritus Boston University
Dr.
William Scott Magill – Executive Director, Veterans
in Defense of Liberty
Donna
Hearne, Former Reagan appointee, 30 year plus talk
show host, Executive Director, Educational Policy Conferences, author, The
Long
War
and
Common Core (Missouri)
Molly
Smith, President, Cleveland Right to Life
Charles
Murray, WH Brady Scholar, American Enterprise
Institute
Jason
Jones, Founder, Movie to Movement
Tricia
Erickson, President, Angel Pictures &
Publicity and Publisher of www.TheConservativePundit.net
William
A. Estrada, Director of Federal Relations, Home
School Legal Defense Association
Austin
Ruse, President, Center for Family & Human Rights
Phil
Burress, Chairman, Citizens for Community Values
Action
Robert
Cramer, Chairman of the Board, THE FAMiLY LEADER
Bob
Vander Plaats, President and CEO, THE FAMiLY LEADER
Bob
Reccord, former CNP Executive Director(?)
Becky
Gerritson, Founder & President Wetumpka TEA Party
J.
Christian Adams, Attorney
Ginni
Thomas, President, Liberty Consulting
Gayle
Trotter, Attorney
Stella
Morabito, senior contributor, The Federalist
Debra
Burlingame, Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe
& Strong America
Tim
LeFever, Chairman, Capitol Resource Institute
Janice
Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., Chairman of Board, Institute on
Religion and Democracy, Executive Committee of Board, The Howard Center
Russell
J. Ramsland, Jr., Founder: Park
Cities/Preston Hollow Leadership Forum, Dallas, Texas, Candidate for
U.S. House of Representatives (CD-32) in 2016 Republican Primary
Pastor
Paul Blair, President, Reclaiming America for Christ
Seth
A. Morgan, Former Ohio State Representative
Steve
Strang, CEO, Charisma Media
Ellen
L. Barrosse, Chairman, RNC Conservative Steering
Committee; Republican National
Committeewoman,
Delaware
Lori
Viars, VP, Warren Co. Right To Life (Ohio)
Michael
James Barton, Former Pentagon Official
Joe
Calvert, Board of Governors, CNP
George
Rasley, Editor, ConservativeHQ.com
Dean
Clancy, Partner, Adams Auld LLC
Penna
Dexter, Radio Host
Kirk
Uhler, Placer County Supervisor, Dist. 4, Placer
County, CA
Tommy
Sears, Independent Consultant
Rod
D. Martin, Founder and CEO, The Martin Organization
Sherri
R. Martin, The Martin Foundation
Hon.
Sharron Angle, President, National Federation of
Republican Assemblies
Nicholas
Stehle, Campaign for the American Future
G.
Tracy Mehan III, Contributor, The American
Spectator, Adjunct Professor, George Mason
University
School of Law
Phillip
Eder, Minneapolis, MN
Margaret
L. Petito, President, Friends of Rule of Law in
Ecuador, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Chuck
Cooper, Former Reagan Administration Assistant
Attorney General
Michelle
Easton, President, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
Fred
Fleitz, Senior Vice President, Center for Security
Policy
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