Ted Cruz Admits Budget Standoff Was All About Building Fundraising Lists
Asked what he has gained from holding-up a deal for weeks, Cruz pointed to a political petition he has been promoting for days:
CRUZ: We have seen a remarkable thing happen. Months ago when the effort to defund Obamacare began, official Washington scoffed. They scoffed that the American people would rise up. They scoffed that the House of Representatives would do anything and they scoffed that the Senate would do anything. We saw first of all, millions of millions of American people rising up across this country, ***over two million people signing a national petition to defund Obamacare.*** We saw the House of Representatives take a courageous stand listening to the American people that everyone in official Washington said wouldn’t happen.
House GOP extracts no concessions
Asked who won in these two weeks, Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) said “the people that managed to raise a lot of money off this.”
The Ted Cruz Filibuster Paid Off — for Ted Cruz!
If you were curious, talking on television for 21 straight hours is very lucrative. Over the last quarter, Ted Cruz's still-young political action committee pulled in $797,000 during the period that included his extended C-SPAN advertorial. It's nearly twice what Cruz pulled in the quarter prior.
Cruz wasn't the only one weaving political obstructionism into gold. As the shutdown approached, a number of conservative organizations began sending out fundraising emails, generally suggesting that a donation to their organizations would help halt Obamacare in its tracks. Heritage Action, as you can see at right, raised $330,000 for its efforts, vaguely articulated as ensuring that language to defund Obamacare was included in House and Senate bills. (The latter never happened.)
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