Cruz for US Senate

As the race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Texas speeds toward Election Day next week, the tension is building. The front-runner has been Texas’ Lt. Governor David Dewhurst who has been using his personal fortune to hammer the opposition and win without a runoff. The latest poll released on Monday shows that Dewhurst is still ahead but far short of the 50% plus one that he needs. While he has the lead at 40%, his conservative, grassroots challenger and former Texas Solicitor General, Ted Cruz, has pulled within single digits at 31%.

Ted Cruz for US Senate

Those two candidates lead the field of nine candidates, and the mailboxes, airwaves, and inboxes are full of accusations and counter-accusations between Dewhurst and Cruz about which one is the true conservative. The usual rule of thumb in politics is to look at the endorsements of the candidates to get an idea of who has the conservative support of the grassroots.

While Dewhurst continues to call Cruz a “trial lawyer” and hammer him about a case involving a Chinese company, the national conservative magazine, National Review, calls the charges “laughable” and points to Cruz’s own response to this on his website.

I know both of these men and have known David Dewhurst since the 1990s. He is a fine man, but he has always been known as a moderate and in my opinion would probably be a U.S. Senator in the mold of Senator Kay Baily Hutchison, who is retiring. Ted Cruz has a compelling family story of his father escaping Castro’s Cuba and coming to this country.

Everyone who knows Ted Cruz is impressed with his intellect, his character, and his staunch conservative positions. In fact, the Austin American Statesman, no bastion of conservatism, last week said about Ted Cruz, “For Republican primary voters looking for a no-frills, no-apologies conservative, Cruz is the genuine article.” They went on to call him a consistent, compelling conservative.

That is why not only I, and THSC PAC, have endorsed him but so have Dr. James Dobson, Sarah Palin, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Jim DeMint, Sean Hannity, and others too numerous to mention. That is also why the Tea Party favorite raised as much money as Dewhurst since April 1^st at $6.1 million and why Dewhurst was forced to put in another $9 million of his own money to try to close the deal with the misleading ads. Cruz, however, has seven times more donors than Dewhurst. That says volumes.

This election appears to be headed for a runoff, and grassroots activists will be more important than ever. In state after state the GOP base has been saying enough is enough with incumbents and choosing those whom they believe will go to Washington, D.C. and make a difference. Texas has a chance to do the same.

If you want to help Ted Cruz by making calls and getting the vote out, you can do so. The Ted Cruz for Senate campaign has an easy-to-use system to conveniently make get-out-the-vote calls from anywhere you have a computer and phone for Ted Cruz. You can log in via your Facebook account at the link below by pressing the “Connect with Facebook” button.

http://votergravity.com/cruz

You can also make calls for Ted at one of the physical phone bank locations below.

Central Houston Phone Bank Location
Firkin and Phoenix’s Back Porch
1915 Westheimer Rd.
Houston, TX 77098
Mon-Fri: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sat: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sun: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Contact: Susanna@TedCruz.org, 832-384-5039

West Houston Phone Bank Location
Cafe Express in City Centre
780 W Sam Houston Pkwy N # 100
Houston, TX 77024
Mon-Fri: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sat: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sun: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Contact: Bobby@TedCruz.org,  832-452-3063

D/FW Phone Bank Location
Crazy Jay’s Pizza and Pasta
2817 West Berry St.
Ft Worth, TX 76109
Mon-Fri: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sat: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sun: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Contact: Kris@TedCruz.org, 254-592-5399

Austin Phone Bank Location
Ted Cruz for Senate Office
807 Brazos Street, Suite 602
Austin, TX 78701
Mon-Fri: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sat: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sun: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Contact: RachelK@TedCruz.org,  512-637-8777