(Washington Post) - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said Saturday that the House Republican leadership had made it next to impossible for him to get money from Super PACs after he filibustered the Affordable Care Act in 2013 — an action that helped trigger a 16-day government shutdown.
“In 2013 we got quite a lot of money from D.C. PACS, and when the defund fight happened, that dropped to almost zero,” Cruz said at the Rockingham County Republican Committee and Seacoast Republican Women Brunch here.
Cruz first made the allegation Friday in an interview with the New Hampshire Journal, claiming that he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) had their money spigot turned off by leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members. Cruz did not specify who in the leadership may have cut him off.
There has been no love lost between Cruz and Senate leaders, and the allegations come as Cruz is out on the presidential campaign trail touting himself as a Washington outsider who wants to reform the system. Earlier this month in New Hampshire, he said that money should be considered free speech when it comes to campaign contributions. He attended two New York fundraisers after his presidential announcement Monday and has raised more than $2 million.
Cruz said that there were “multiple reports” from big-money fundraisers in Washington that “they had been told in no uncertain terms, do not write a check to these guys.”
Spokespeople for members of the House Republican leadership did not immediately comment on Cruz’s remarks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/28/cruz-claims-gop-leadership-blocked-his-fundraising-after-shutdown/?tid=HP_politics?tid=HP_politics
No comments:
Post a Comment