Yesterday, I noticed that my Texas Senate diary about U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) raising money for Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign made the Most Shared section raking with 4,307 Facebook Shares. First off, thank you to the Daily Kos community for helping spread the diary on Social Media. I also want to thank @KarenChestney for Tweeting my diary. I rarely check Twitter so when I checked my notifications a little bit ago, a smile came across my face when I saw this:
Yep, Ted Cruz just shared my diary on Twitter. Here’s his actual Tweet:
Here’s Karen’s Tweet:
I guess I struck a nerve with Rafael Cruz because he resorted to sharing my diary on Twitter about Liberal Ol’ Liz Warren helping Beto get ready to kick his ass. Speaking of which, Beto is keeping true to his word about raising grassroots money and rejecting Super PAC money:
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke has a message for a California billionaire who is openly mulling spending big money on O'Rourke's U.S. Senate race: "Thanks, but no thanks."
Tom Steyer, one of the biggest Democratic donors in the country, openly mulled on CNBC on Tuesday spending on O'Rourke's behalf via his environmental super PAC, NextGen America.
"We are intrigued by Texas, and we are aware what we have to do in order to have an impact on a state that big. We need a lot of resources, but we have not made a decision to be involved with it," Steyer said.
O'Rourke has long said he would not accept corporate PAC or super PAC money to his campaign, but he has no control over whether Steyer or anyone else runs ads on his behalf through an outside group.
"He can still do it," O'Rourke said. "Literally, not only do I not have any control but I'm prohibited by law from coordinating. Having said that, for he and anyone considering doing this, we don't want that. It's not the way to run this, and I'm convinced it's not the way to win."
But one Texas donor wants to get rid of Cruz so badly that he doesn’t care if Beto wants his money or not:
A Texas Democratic donor is raising money for a super PAC to help Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke — against the wishes of the candidate, who has asked super PACs to stay out of the race.
Dallas lawyer Marc Stanley told the Star-Telegram Tuesday that his group is gearing up to try to unseat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, following a Quinnipiac University poll this month that showed the race in a statistical dead heat.
Stanley said the poll, combined with a private survey his group commissioned in February, “shows the time is right” to unseat Cruz.
O’Rourke, a champion of campaign finance reform, has asked PACs to stay out of his race against Cruz. He’s raised $13.2 million for that contest, to Cruz’s roughly $12.6 million.
“I’m not listening to what Beto O’Rourke says, I’m doing what I think is right for Texas,” said Stanley, who chaired former Texas Gov. Ann Richards’s campaign in 1990 in Dallas County.
Let’s help Beto keep up the momentum and keep has grassroots campaign strong. Click here to donate and get involved with Beto’s campaign.
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