NEW. Someone, presumably a staffer, left a folder full of briefing documents on TED CRUZ donors in the Senate Refectory.
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According to the documents, Senator Cruz will dine at the Capitol Grille tonight at 730PM with 8 donors who've pledged $19,500 but paid $0.
Here's the roster, complete with bios, on FUNDRAISING, INC letterhead —
TOMORROW, Cruz is apparently headed to NEW YORK CITY where he'll dine at @Cipriani from noon to 1:30pm ET with @lauder_ronald.
Here's the briefing doc —
@Cipriani @lauder_ronald After lunch with @lauder_ronald, Cruz will head to @KnickerbockerBG in Greenwich Village to meet with @SonomaLoebWines from 2 to 3pm ET.
Here is the briefing doc —
@Cipriani @lauder_ronald @KnickerbockerBG @SonomaLoebWines After meeting with @SonomaLoebWines, Cruz will head to @novogratz's residence at 3:30pm ET.
Novogratz apparently supported @HillaryClinton in 2016.
Here's the briefing doc —
@Cipriani @lauder_ronald @KnickerbockerBG @SonomaLoebWines @novogratz @HillaryClinton After an hour at @novogratz's residence, Cruz heads to @ShankenNews' NYC office at 5pm ET, presumably for some wine and spirits(?).
Here's the briefing doc —
After a 75 minute meeting with @ShankenNews, Cruz will return to the @KnickerbockerBG for dinner with Dr. Jay Reibel, founder of @PHCUnity.
Reibel will get two full hours and an $11,600 ask.
Here's the briefing doc —
@ShankenNews @KnickerbockerBG @PHCUnity 🚨TOMORROW AM —
Cruz to meet with @LenBlav handler Peter L. Thoren at his NYC office. The ask is $59,600.
Here's the briefing doc—
@ShankenNews @KnickerbockerBG @PHCUnity @LenBlav That concludes the document dump.
If you or someone you know has additional briefing docs for Cruz or any other dot gov, send em my way!
/FIN
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We're coming to you live from inside the Senate Homeland Security Committee Room where Sen. Markwayne Mullin is in his confirmation hearing for Homeland Security Secretary.
Lots of action so far. Rand Paul noted that Markwayne said the junior senator from Kentucky deserved the beating he got from his neighbor a couple years back.
Andy Kim asks about warehouses. Markwayne said he'd be an active partner. Kim famously voted for Kristi Noem, a vote he came to quickly regret. So it'll be interesting to see how he votes for for Markwayne.
Senator, has Puerto Rico come up in discussions with your Senate colleagues during the current Congress? —
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Sen. BENNET: "There hasn't been much discussion."
Sen. LUJAN: "For me, yes ... because I raise it. Our brothers and sisters from there have not been treated fairly. We all need to bring up Puerto Rico more and more every day."
Friends: I asked a half-dozen relevant Senators and at least a dozen relevant staffers today for an update in the promised citizenship pathways.
Breaks my heart to tweet this but it ain't looking good, as of now. 🧵
As it stands, the votes aren't there for BBB, which is now very much shelved.
Outside of reconciliation's simple majority, GOP Senators I've asked agree: there'll be no support for relief, let along the 10 votes needed.
Undocupals are doubly effed, per the staffers I've spoken with, who described the #WeAreHome coalition repping undocupals in Congress as "toxic" and "embarrassing" and so on.