FORGET THE CAUCUSES, FORGET THE PRIMARIES, THE KOCH BROTHERS HAVE SPOKEN! The Koch Brothers’, spending more for the 2016 election, more than both parties’ spending, have decided to narrow the field of candidates! No Democrats, and just three Republicans, are now your choices! They are speaking. They have spoken! Isn’t this “Money is the same as free speech” wonderful!

Hundreds of conservative donors recruited by the Kochs gathered over the weekend for three days of issue seminars, strategy sessions and mingling with rising elected officials. These donors represent the largest concentration of political money outside the party establishment, one that has achieved enormous power in Republican circles in recent years.

Now the Kochs’ network will embark on its largest drive ever to influence legislation and campaigns across the country, leveraging Republican control of Congress and the party’s dominance of state capitols to push for deregulation, tax cuts and smaller government. In 2012, the Kochs’ network spent just under $400 million, an astonishing sum at the time. The $889 million spending goal for 2016 would put it on track to spend as much as the campaigns of each party’s presidential nominee.

Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas — took part in a candidate forum on economic issues. They were the only ones invited!

The Kochs are longtime opponents of campaign disclosure laws. Unlike the parties, their network is constructed chiefly of nonprofit groups that are not required to reveal donors. That makes it almost impossible to tell how much of the money is provided by the Kochs — among the wealthiest men in the country — and how much by other donors.

As the three senators addressed the audience of rich donors — effectively an audition for the 2016 primary — they dismissed a question about whether the wealthy had too much influence in politics. At times they seemed to be addressing an audience of two: the Kochs themselves, now among the country’s most influential conservative power brokers.

Mr. Cruz gave an impassioned defense of his hosts as job creators and the victims of unfair attacks by Democrats, while Mr. Rubio suggested that only liberals supported campaign finance restrictions, so as to empower what he said were their allies in Hollywood and the news media.

This Website shows the truth:

Ted Cruz says: #1.  “I will never get — nor do I want — money from the DC lobbyists”

is a flat out lie.  It is not a misstatement, it is a complete and total falsehood.

Point #2 : “After winning Iowa the Washington cartel is most certainly more determined than ever defeat me”.  Again, look at the truth:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/02/seriously-how-can-ted-cruz-supporters-defend-this/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html?_r=0