David Dewhurst’s Media Consultants Attack Ted Cruz and RedState *at* RedState

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David Dewhurst’s Media Consultants Attack Ted Cruz and RedState *at* RedState

 

 

Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Wednesday, July 11th at 1:34PM EDT

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This is amazingly pathetic.

David Dewhurst’s campaign gets his state government website altered to cover up his lying about his amnesty position.

What happens? His media consultants invade RedState to accuse Ted Cruz of supporting Chicoms and attack RedState for supporting Cruz.

In fact, this is not the first time Dewhurst’s media consultants have done this.

Using the user name “Liberty Patriot,” Dewhurst’s consultants have dropped by four times to attack Ted Cruz at RedState.

Ironically, they’ve noted that “convictions in your beliefs are important” even Read More http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/07/11/david-dewhursts-media-consultants-attack-ted-cruz-and-redstate-at-redstate/

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David Dewhurst Campaign Alters Taxpayer Funded Website to Cover Up Past Support for Amnesty.

 

 

What else is he hiding?

Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Wednesday, July 11th at 11:39AM EDT

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Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s Senate campaign might have just crossed a line it should not have crossed. Who else would be behind the Lt. Governor’s taxpayer funded website for his Lieutenant Governor’s Office suddenly deleting the transcript of a speech proving David Dewhurst has been lying about his position on illegal aliens?

The speech is . . . well . . . it is gone. Poof.

Again, the website is taxpayer funded and the document suddenly no longer there directly contradicted Dewhurst’s present statements on immigration in the Senate campaign.

Now, David Dewhurst adamantly claims that he opposes amnesty – even calling the recent Obama plan to grant permits to illegals who came here as children “nothing short of backdoor amnesty by executive fiat and a blatant political ploy.”

But there is one very big problem… He is lying and then covering up the facts that prove he is lying.

As the Houston Chronicle’s Peggy Fikac notes, Mr. Dewhurst just a few years ago advocated for amnesty for anyone here illegally, not just children. In Read More

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Cruz and Dewhurst Agree to Third Televised Debate

 

by Aman Batheja

 

July 19, 2012

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz have both agreed to a third televised debate on the first day of early voting in their hotly contested GOP runoff for an open U.S. Senate seat.

The King Street Patriots, a Houston-area Tea Party group, and Fox 26, a Houston-based affiliate, are scheduled to host a televised debate in front of a live audience Monday at 6 p.m. Details on airings statewide weren't immediately clear. read more http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/cruz-and-dewhurst-agree-third-televised-debate/