Ted Cruz claims Republican leadership cut off his fundraising after he shut down the government

 John Boehner and the establishment elites within the Republican party have a history of punishing conservatives who dare to disagree with the leadership. John Boehner is especially well known for this in conservative circles: he has previously removed conservatives from key committee positions in 2012 for not falling in line; in 2013 he fired the top conservative in the Republican Study Committee; and again last year he punished those that dared to vote against His Excellency for Speaker of the House.

  And now, if Ted Cruz is telling the truth, we can add his name as well as  Mike Lee to the list of conservatives who have been punished by the establishment Republican leadership. It is not a secret that the establishment was very upset at these two people who actually tried to make good on their campaign promises instead of just paying them lip service as do the rest of the Republicans in Washington, but for the first time Ted Cruz has let us know how upset they really were.

  Ted Cruz had this to say recently about how the Republican leadership punished him for his actions which led to the government shutdown:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said Saturday that the House Republican leadership had made it next to impossible for him to get money from Super PACs after he filibustered the Affordable Care Act in 2013 — an action that helped trigger a 16-day government shutdown.

“In 2013 we got quite a lot of money from D.C. PACS, and when the defund fight happened, that dropped to almost zero,” Cruz said at the Rockingham County Republican Committee and Seacoast Republican Women Brunch here.

Cruz first made the allegation Friday in an interview with the New Hampshire Journal, claiming that he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) had their money spigot turned off by leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members. Cruz did not specify who in the leadership may have cut him off.

Cruz said that there were “multiple reports” from big-money fundraisers in Washington that “they had been told in no uncertain terms, do not write a check to these guys.”

  Ted Cruz would not name names but it does not take a genius to come up with two names off the top of your head for there are two people who have dedicated more time to defeating the Tea Party than they have in trying to defeat Barack Obama and the Democrats over the last three years–John Boehner and Karl Rove.

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