Cruz’s Message to Wall Street: Help Me

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22608852784_534eb4e408_bOn Monday, assorted bankers, traders and Wall Street lawyers will gather inside the neo-Georgian walls of the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan to write big checks to an unlikely recipient: Ted Cruz.

Cruz, who attended Harvard Law School, isn’t one to trade too heavily on old school ties and friendships at the likes of Goldman Sachs, where his wife works. On the campaign trail, the Texas senator has railed against Wall Street “crony capitalism,” ripped giant banks as “too big to fail” and wrapped himself in populist garb in his quest to take down Donald Trump. But now he’s desperate: Cruz, who has already received $12 million in support from the financial industry, needs Wall Street money more than ever.

If he is going to keep Trump from getting the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination before the GOP convention, Cruz will have to spend heavily on the airwaves in the remaining primary and caucus states, especially California, which closes out the voting on June 7. Cruz ended February with $8 million in the bank. His campaign says he pulled in $12 million — only a modest haul, for this stage of the campaign — in March, but that money will evaporate quickly during the final sprint.

So Cruz and his wife, Heidi, currently on unpaid leave from her Goldman Sachs executive position, will gather with donors in New York next week to refill the coffers. Event chairs for the Harvard Club gathering must collect $25,000 each for Cruz. Members of the host committee must commit to bringing in $10,800. Those who donate $2,700 will get to schmooze with the Cruzes at a VIP reception. General admission is $1,000. (Read more from “Cruz’s Message to Wall Street: Help Me” HERE)

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Spoiler Alert! Kasich out to ‘Deny Trump Nomination’

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25517125391_4b4e4c77e7_bIn an email to supporters Wednesday, the wife of Republican candidate John Kasich confirmed what many political observers have long suspected: A chief goal of the Kasich campaign is to deny GOP front-runner Donald Trump the party’s nomination.

“Friend, I’m going to be honest with you,” states the email blast from Kasich’s wife, Karen. “The stakes are high and it’s critical that we all pitch in to help John continue securing delegates and deny Trump the nomination.”

Then Mrs. Kasich assures supporters that her husband is running a “positive campaign” . . .

John Kasich has repeatedly insisted he’s not in the race to block Trump . . .

“I want to make something clear to people. I’m not in this to try to stop somebody,” Mr. Kasich told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on March 20. “I’m in this to tell people about my experience, my record, my vision, and my ability to bring – bring people together and to be a successful president of the United States. This is beginning to deteriorate into some sort of a political science class with a bunch of pundits trying to, you know, play a parlor game. I’m not interested in that.” (Read more from “Spoiler Alert! Kasich out to ‘Deny Trump Nomination'” HERE)

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Cruz Eyes Double-Agent Delegates in Bid to Snatch GOP Nomination From Trump

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20832825818_9dec96cab5_b (1)By S.A. Miller. Sen. Ted Cruz’s hopes for winning the Republican presidential nomination outright have faded, and he has shifted to a strategy of gaming the rules, angling to send enough double-agent delegates to the July convention to snatch victory from front-runner Donald Trump.

It’s a major reversal for Mr. Cruz, who just weeks ago insisted he would win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But major wins in Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado have not closed the gap, with a series of East Coast primaries looming.

Now the best option for the senator from Texas is trench warfare at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

“I think it’s very simple. The odds are now very high that we go to a contested convention,” he said in a radio interview Tuesday with conservative media honcho Glenn Beck, who has endorsed Mr. Cruz.

“When we get to a contested convention, here’s what’s going to happen: I’m going to have a ton of delegates, Donald’s going to have a ton of delegates, and it’s going be a battle to see who’s going to win a majority,” said Mr. Cruz. “In Cleveland, I believe, we will have an enormous advantage.” (Read more from “Cruz Eyes Double-Agent Delegates in Bid to Snatch GOP Nomination From Trump” HERE)

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RNC Member Predicts: Trump Can Win With 1,100 Delegates

By Pete Kasperowicz. Republican National Committee member Randy Evans predicted Wednesday that Donald Trump would likely be able to secure the Republican nomination if he captures anything more than 1,100 delegates, short of the 1,237 delegates needed for a simple majority.

“If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes, he will become the nominee even though he may not have 1,237,” Evans said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

The RNC stressed Wednesday morning that under the rules, 1,237 delegates are still needed to officially clinch the nomination, and said Evans’ comments are more of a comment on what might happen in the hypothetical situation in which Trump falls just short.

Evans’ comment could be good news for Trump if it’s a sentiment shared by other RNC members, since Trump is at risk of falling short of a majority of delegates by the time of the convention in July. But Evans also warned that if Trump slips much more, the nomination would likely fall to someone else.

“If he gets less than 1,000 delegates, then I think we’re looking at a contested convention that could go on for many, many days,” Evans said. (Read more from “RNC Member Predicts: Trump Can Win With 1,100 Delegates” HERE)

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Promise Kept: Barack Obama Breaks the Coal Industry

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Joint_blog_close_PS-0774President Obama’s war on coal has bagged its biggest trophy to date: the bankruptcy filing by the largest U.S. coal company, Peabody Energy.

Make no mistake about it, though, Peabody’s management and that of the rest of coal industry bears much of the blame for its own demise. It ought to serve as a lesson for everyone else targeted by take-no-prisoners progressives.

Peabody’s bankruptcy filing follows that of other major coal companies including, Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal, and Patriot Coal. The irony is that coal is actually the world’s fastest growing source of energy, according to the International Energy Agency. So what happened?

Even before Obama vowed to “bankrupt” the coal industry in a 2008 interview with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, the coal industry had already allowed the seeds of its destruction to take root. It had failed to believe global warming hysteria was an existential threat. The industry thought the demand for cheap and reliable electricity combined with the power of politicians representing coal states would suffice as a defense against attack. But contrary to the myths propagated by global warming activists, the coal industry was never a serious funder of climate skeptics.

This strategy was completely upended when decidedly anti-coal Obama became president and Republicans lost control of Congress. Not only did an unprecedented coal industry-hating “progressive” government come to power, but also an up-and-coming new technology for producing natural gas was coming into its own. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, commonly referred to as “fracking,” began to change the U.S. energy market. (Read more from “Promise Kept: Barack Obama Breaks the Coal Industry” HERE)

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Undocumented Cal State Students Fear Border Patrol’s Participation in Career Fair

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Border_Patrol_ATV_IMG_5278Students at the California State University, San Marcos staged a demonstration Thursday protesting the inclusion of Border Patrol representatives at the school’s career fair.

Sociology professor Marisol Clark-Ibanez tweeted a photo Thursday evening showing students holding signs with messages such as “Stop tearing us apart” and “CSUSM: A Safe Space?” in front of the table advertising positions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), while a uniformed officer records them on a cell phone.

The next day, she sent an open letter to Career Center Director Pamela Wells explaining that, as faculty advisor to the Standing Together As oNe Dream (STAND) student group, she became alarmed upon arriving on campus Thursday morning to find a CBP vehicle and three police cars (all empty) parked near the student union.

“My heart froze because I immediately became concerned for our students’ safety and wellbeing,” she recalls. “When I parked in the parking garage, I texted Julio (STAND president) and let him know what I saw, ask where he was, and if he (and others) were okay.”

After determining that the law enforcement vehicles were on campus for the career fair taking place that day, Julio “gathered students to assemble an impromptu protest to let Border Patrol know their practices in our community were unjust and detrimental,” during which both sides took photos and videos in case the demonstration got out of hand. (Read more from “Undocumented Cal State Students Fear Border Patrol’s Participation in Career Fair” HERE)

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Mainstream Media Rebuffed: Trump Campaign Manager Won’t Be Prosecuted

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LewandowksiA Florida prosecutor has decided not to prosecute Donald Trump’s campaign manager for battery after a March run-in with former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, sources with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO.

The decision not to press charges against Corey Lewandowski is scheduled to be announced on Thursday afternoon by Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg.

Fields may still pursue a defamation case against Lewandowski, a source said. . .

Aronberg would not comment, but in a POLITICO interview last week, he pointed out that Jupiter police had a low “probable cause” standard to cite Lewandowski for battery. But the responsibility for moving forward with a full-blown prosecution rested with Aronberg’s office, which had to consider whether a crime occurred and whether they believed a jury of Floridians would prosecute.

(Don’t think media fabrications happen? Watch this smoking-gun video about the Alaska media’s attempt to fabricate a story about the Joe Miller campaign and child molesters):

If Trump Gets Screwed by the GOP, the Third Party Will Be Bigger Than the GOP Fairly Soon

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24854169213_f2afeace89_bDilbert creator Scott Adams, the author and persuasion expert who correctly predicted the rise of Donald Trump, says the Republican party has a choice: strengthen itself with a Trump candidacy or face certain destruction with a contested convention.

In an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) question-and-answer session, Adams told “The Donald,” Reddit’s community for Trump supporters, that the GOP can only hurt itself if it “screws” with the billionaire frontrunner’s chances of securing the presidential nomination at July’s convention.

“If Trump is nominated, the GOP will grow stronger and become a bigger tent,” Adams wrote. “If Trump is denied after getting the most votes in the first round, the GOP will be done, one way or another.”

In his final post before logging off for the day, he reiterated this point. Asked whether a viable third party could rise, Adams responded, “If Trump gets screwed by the GOP, the third party will be bigger than the GOP fairly soon.”

He suggests the latest news cycle has helped Trump prepare this narrative, especially after the optics of Sen. Ted Cruz winning all of Colorado’s delegates while the public could not vote in a primary or caucus. (Read more from “If Trump Gets Screwed by the GOP, the Third Party Will Be Bigger Than the GOP Fairly Soon” HERE)

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Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him

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525148373_1280x720Donald Trump has claimed that the Republican party’s rules have been deliberately “stacked against” him as part of an establishment scheme to stop him winning the presidential nomination.

He made the accusation in a CNN town hall meeting on Tuesday ahead of next week’s Republican primary in New York which Mr Trump is expected to win easily, despite party grandees openly professing dismay at the prospect of him being the GOP candidate in November’s presidential election . . .

Mr Trump told Anderson Cooper, the CNN moderator, that the award was “very unfair” and happened because party leaders changed the rules to prevent him getting the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination – although he predicted he would still reach that figure, despite the “shenanigans” . . .

He dismissed suggestions that he had lost in Colorado because he was unfamiliar with the rules and that Mr Cruz had a better organisation on the ground.

“”I know the rules very well, but I know it’s stacked against me by the establishment,” he said. “They changed the rules a number of months ago. You know why they changed the rules? Because they saw how I was doing and they didn’t like it.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him” HERE)

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$1.48 Trillion: Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First Half of FY 2016

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downloadInflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $1.48 trillion for the first half of fiscal year 2016, but the federal government still ran a $461 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.

Treasury receipts include tax revenue from individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, social insurance and retirement taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items.

In the first half of fiscal 2016, which included the months of October, November, December, January, February, and March, the amount of taxes collected by the federal government outpaced the first half of all previous fiscal years, even after adjusting for inflation. The 2016 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2015, and runs through Sept. 30, 2016.

The federal government collected $1,476,218,000,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2016. Most of the $1.48 trillion came from individual income taxes, which comprised almost half of that total, totaling $675 billion. (Read more from “$1.48 Trillion: Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First Half of FY 2016” HERE)

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John Kasich Trashes Mississippi Religious Liberty Law

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20177638393_fdae28e39d_bIn the ongoing debate over religious liberty in regard to same-sex marriage, John Kasich has continually been on the leftist side of the aisle.

Speaking at CNN town hall Monday, Kasich slammed Mississippi’s religious freedom law as big mistake, wrongfully characterizing it as a law that enables businesses to simply deny service to LGBT affiliates.

“I read about this thing they did in Mississippi where apparently you can deny somebody service because they’re gay. What the hell are we doing in this country?” he asked.

As stated by LifeSiteNews, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” signed into law by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, actually says that “the government cannot compel religious organizations to hire anyone whose conduct violates their religious beliefs, or force religious adoption agencies to place children in the homes of same-sex couples.” (Read more from “John Kasich Trashes Mississippi Religious Liberty Law” HERE)

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