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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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.
Illuminating train ride through the Senate tunnels with @SenatorMenendez. Here's what he had to say on immigration policy to @LauraLitvan and me —
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>> @SenatorMenendez on parliamentarian: "I disagree with her views. I think that what we've already presented her is foursquare within the budgetary process and has a budgetary effect and in the past, Republicans have used reconciliation for elements of immigration changes."
>> @SenatorMenendez on parliamentarian (cont.): "I am of the belief that in this country, there isn't a process in which there isn't an appeal. [...] I have never seen anything in which there is one person who has the final word and there's no appeal."