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“The Federal Election Commission has issued a rare unanimous decision against Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). The agency has found that Cruz violated federal election law in his campaign for Senate in 2012.”
“Sen. Ted Cruz’s Senate campaign committee has received three letters from the Federal Election Commission this election cycle for accepting campaign contributions that exceeded federal limits.
... Cruz’s campaign has received the most notices of excessive contribution out of 32 Senate campaigns, according to an analysis by the Chronicle.”
“Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who is running against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for a Senate seat, has not been charged with federal campaign finance violations as suggested in claims circulating online.
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In O’Rourke’s case, the FEC flagged six donations from individuals with foreign addresses and more than a dozen individuals who gave above federal contributions limits. Campaigns can’t accept money from foreign nationals or more than $2,700 from any one person. O’Rourke spokesman Chris Evans said the foreign donations are U.S. citizens who live overseas and that the campaign refunded the excessive contributions flagged in the FEC letter.“
The article also notes that these letters are routine and simply ask for more information.
Moral of the story: only one of the two candidates is actually guilty of campaign violations and it isn’t the Democrat.
Since when does an AGENCY determine guilt or innocence of federal crimes?
Beto is holding on to his BIG Money Haul. He is drunk on his own Kool-Aid and the Leftist Media Hype. Beto knows he can’t win Texas, he will look at the Presidential Race for 2020.
Great Hair, Great Teeth ... the New Obama!!!
I bet he can run up and down airplane steps .... SO kewl!
I bet he can Dance with Ellen! So Kewl!!
On the other hand .... when was the last time we saw anyone win the Oval Office when he couldn’t even when his own State?
A good friend of mine lives in the El Paso area and posted this today regarding Beto:
I lived in El Paso from 1991 until 2009. I went to El Paso on a three-month contract as a consultant for a Mexican newspaper in January 1991 and stayed for 18 years. Working in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, I knew many "media people" in print, radio, TV and the advertising agencies. Beto O'Rourke's father-in-law Bill Sanders was a partner in one of the largest ad agencies in El Paso. One of my good friends was the senior creative director at that agency. I knew Beto, and I knew his wife Amy Sanders. The political climate in El Paso and El Paso County was filled with underhanded deals, corruption, blatant dishonesty and sleazy officials. In July 2001, Beto’s father, County Judge Patrick O’Rourke was run over on Artcraft Road early on morning while riding his recumbent bicycle. Months prior to that, El Paso County Sheriff Deputies found cocaine hidden in the dashboard of Judge O’Rourke’s automobile. No charges were ever filed. Beto’s mother Melissa owned Charlotte’s Furniture. While I was in El Paso, she was caught issuing fake invoices on merchandise sold to people from Mexico to avoid paying sales tax. She was later forced by the Internal Revenue Service to close her business. Because of several altercations with the local police department when he was a teenager, Beto was sent away to an all-male boarding school in Virginia. He graduated in 1991 from Woodberry Forest School in Madison County, VA. In 1995, he was arrested for burglary in El Paso, after jumping a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso. No charges were filed. In 1998, Beto was arrested for DWI and fleeing the scene of an accident. Charges were dropped after he completed a court-recommended DWI program. Beto won his first political office in mid-2005. He ran for city council against corrupt incumbent Anthony Cobos, who later served four years in a federal prison in Colorado for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and “deprivation of honest services.” In 2012 Beto unseated U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. Reyes had served with the U.S. Border Patrol for 26 years, retiring in 1995, before entering politics. Appointed to the House Intelligence Committee by Nancy Pelosi, Reyes became the laughing stock of Washington by not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite when questioned about al-Qaeda by the Congressional Quarterly in December 2006. For Silvestre Reyes to chair the House Intelligence Committee was a gross contradiction of terms. He was an embarrassment to the Democrat Party. Reyes and his brother Chuy are as corrupt as they come.
Two of my closest friends while in El Paso were 1) the editor of the El Paso Times, and 2) the general manager of the PBS TV-affiliate. Between the two of them and my staff of investigative reporters at El Diario, I was pretty much in touch with the political affairs and dealings in El Paso. Last Friday I received a call from the friend who had been the general manager at KCOS-TV. He talked about Beto O’Rourke, and how the people in El Paso who know him are frustrated and exasperated that he has made this much of an impact on the U. S. Senate election. They know the 38.1 million dollars he “raised” came from Hungarian George Soros and the Democrat Party. My friend told me that he ran into a guy he knows who sold drugs to Beto. My friend told him, “Henry, you would be doing the county a huge favor by telling people you were the drug pusher to Beto O’Rourke.” He said Henry looked at him and said, “Man, I would not live through the night if I did that.” Some people know the real Beto. What’s sad is that the media has fallen in love with another Obama-type candidate, who is unproven, unknown and unable to do anything right for this country. Republicans, PLEASE VOTE on November 6th!
If you can in any way help, Please get this letter out to as many Democrats and Republicans as you can to spare Texas this danger.!!!
A good friend of mine lives in the El Paso area and posted this today regarding Beto:
I lived in El Paso from 1991 until 2009. I went to El Paso on a three-month contract as a consultant for a Mexican newspaper in January 1991 and stayed for 18 years. Working in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, I knew many "media people" in print, radio, TV and the advertising agencies. Beto O'Rourke's father-in-law Bill Sanders was a partner in one of the largest ad agencies in El Paso. One of my good friends was the senior creative director at that agency. I knew Beto, and I knew his wife Amy Sanders. The political climate in El Paso and El Paso County was filled with underhanded deals, corruption, blatant dishonesty and sleazy officials. In July 2001, Beto’s father, County Judge Patrick O’Rourke was run over on Artcraft Road early on morning while riding his recumbent bicycle. Months prior to that, El Paso County Sheriff Deputies found cocaine hidden in the dashboard of Judge O’Rourke’s automobile. No charges were ever filed. Beto’s mother Melissa owned Charlotte’s Furniture. While I was in El Paso, she was caught issuing fake invoices on merchandise sold to people from Mexico to avoid paying sales tax. She was later forced by the Internal Revenue Service to close her business. Because of several altercations with the local police department when he was a teenager, Beto was sent away to an all-male boarding school in Virginia. He graduated in 1991 from Woodberry Forest School in Madison County, VA. In 1995, he was arrested for burglary in El Paso, after jumping a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso. No charges were filed. In 1998, Beto was arrested for DWI and fleeing the scene of an accident. Charges were dropped after he completed a court-recommended DWI program. Beto won his first political office in mid-2005. He ran for city council against corrupt incumbent Anthony Cobos, who later served four years in a federal prison in Colorado for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and “deprivation of honest services.” In 2012 Beto unseated U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. Reyes had served with the U.S. Border Patrol for 26 years, retiring in 1995, before entering politics. Appointed to the House Intelligence Committee by Nancy Pelosi, Reyes became the laughing stock of Washington by not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite when questioned about al-Qaeda by the Congressional Quarterly in December 2006. For Silvestre Reyes to chair the House Intelligence Committee was a gross contradiction of terms. He was an embarrassment to the Democrat Party. Reyes and his brother Chuy are as corrupt as they come.
Two of my closest friends while in El Paso were 1) the editor of the El Paso Times, and 2) the general manager of the PBS TV-affiliate. Between the two of them and my staff of investigative reporters at El Diario, I was pretty much in touch with the political affairs and dealings in El Paso. Last Friday I received a call from the friend who had been the general manager at KCOS-TV. He talked about Beto O’Rourke, and how the people in El Paso who know him are frustrated and exasperated that he has made this much of an impact on the U. S. Senate election. They know the 38.1 million dollars he “raised” came from Hungarian George Soros and the Democrat Party. My friend told me that he ran into a guy he knows who sold drugs to Beto. My friend told him, “Henry, you would be doing the county a huge favor by telling people you were the drug pusher to Beto O’Rourke.” He said Henry looked at him and said, “Man, I would not live through the night if I did that.” Some people know the real Beto. What’s sad is that the media has fallen in love with another Obama-type candidate, who is unproven, unknown and unable to do anything right for this country. Republicans, PLEASE VOTE on November 6th!
If you can in any way help, Please get this letter out to as many Democrats and Republicans as you can to spare Texas this danger.!!!
I live here in el paso (have been in the area since 86, and in el paso since 94. Everything you wrote is true. When beto was on city council he voted for higher taxes, open borders, wsnted dl and id for illegal aliens (paid for by the taxpayers), voted for eminent domain, displscing elderly people out of their family homes. Beto is a lying crook with a criminal background. He came by that honestly considering who his parents are.
Yep. Austin is like a miniature Washington D.C. - occupied mostly by folks with their paychecks written from government coffers. No wonder it's liberal.
It is the perfect storm, once the military was kicked out in the 90's to make way for fruitcake Silicon Valley to roll in.
Government, Abundant Indoctrination Universities, and dump Silicon Valley Transplants into it, by the thousands.
It went from Keep Austin Weird, to You Must Conform, in a decade.
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