The lieutenant governor’s office had asked more than a year ago that all of his speeches be removed from the internet and sent to archival storage. At that time, a button allowing computer users to access Dewhurst speeches was taken off the government-run website. But the speeches could still be found online through a standard Google search.

Once the 2007 speech began generating calls to the office, the lieutenant governor’s state-paid staff asked that the links to the speeches be disabled.

Full story is here.

If a so-called conservative tells me it’s all over but the shouting, I want no part of him or his opinions. Sure, I have my doubts — it’s an uphill battle, after all. But it won’t be won if it’s never fought. And it MUST be fought if you want to pass a free nation on to your children and grandchildren. So if you’re disgusted, depressed, burned out, played out or tapped out, keep your defeatism to yourself. I refuse to be contaminated by it.

Ned

Maybe it was somebody on one of those 32 committees chaired by the liberal Democrats appointed by Dewhurst.

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But a larger concern for me is a man’s integrity. Why would he erase a speech he gave? What is he hiding? Why erase things that you said?

Answer this question: Why did David Dewhurst erase his speech from his website?

TED CRUZ 2012! A man who doesn’t hide from his speeches.

(All David Dewhurst can say is: China! Ted Cruz never helped China businesses or anything like that…but even if he did, he did it on his own time, with his own money, working for his own law firm.. David Dewhurst erased a speech that he gave as the Lt. Governor, using security with taxpayer money, and erasing the speech from a TAXPAYER-PAID website!)

I have a lot of concerns about David Dewhurst’s public service. I have not heard anything about Ted Cruz’s public service!

To paraphrase Ted Cruz it is interesting how Dewhurst seems to have everyone else go out to do his fighting. Senators writing letters, talk show hosts, etc, etc. Of course these Senators are writing this letter and Perry is supporting him. If Dewhurst loses and they want ANY legislation passed for the next 10 years (two in Perry’s case), they best support him. And that’s not necessarily a slam on Dewhurst that’s just the way politics and life in general work.

Dewhurst has had some conservative bills passed (though it appears now that the budget may have been balanced with smoke and mirrors, especially with all the talk of increasing gas and other taxes in the next session, etc.) But many more could’ve been as discussed here at this site and others as well.

Also I just don’t sense the commitment to fighting for conservatism that I see from Cruz. DC’s a mess and it’s going to take a true conservative warrior to clean up that mess. I.e. Dewhurst would’ve voted against Obamacare no doubt, but will he now lead the charge to repeal it in the mode of Rand Paul or Jim DeMint? From a man who fundraises with Democratic fundraisers (I don’t care what anyone says Dewhurst was at a Democratic fundraising location whether “funds were exchanged or not”), I doubt it.

I know I’ve been long-winded here but everything that needs to be known about this race is much better summed up at the link below. It’s a little long but very informative and well-documented (though I would assume you might not agree).

http://www.voicesempower.com/why-choose-ted-cruz-over-david-dewhurst-for-u-s-senate/

18 of 19 Republican Senators confirm that Dewhurst didn’t kill the Sanctuary Cities Bill. http://wp.me/p1FiCk-Mu The 19th, Senator Brian Birdwell, a survivor of the 9-11 attack at the Pentagon deferred because of a previous promise to stay neutral.

The Governor has said that Dewhurst supported the Bill.

Even House member Debbie Riddle said the Bill died in the House.

Is everyone out of step except Ted?

EVERY politician on both sides of the aisle says that, from Obama to McCain to every other liar.

The next part about giving those here illegally a work permit…we know where that goes. His killing of the sanctuary cities bill, that would have passed handily, says a lot more about his position.

I don’t know who or what you are, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE NOT…conservative.

If Cruz has a tough time now, it’ll be much harder for whoever tries to primary Dewhurst next.

Once a guy like him wins a seat, he’s very tough to unseat. Beating the Dick Lugars in the Senate has been the exception rather than the rule. That’s why I’ve decided my days of voting for liberal and moderate republicans in general elections are over.

The Lt. Governor has stated that he’s opposed to any guest worker program unless and until the border is made secure and absolutely against amnesty of any type. Even the statement you refer to begins with a call to secure the border.

The Obama Administration has begun implementing back door amnesty, by refusing to prosecute or deport segments of the illegal population and by actively giving work permits to some – from this side of the border and with no punishment at all.

The problem with the 2005 immigration reform was that it was “amnesty,” in that illegally crossing the border and taking work – along with identity theft- would have been forgiven for a fine and the application could begin in the US. Our own Texas REpublican Party passed a platform that included “The Texas Solution,” a call for a guest worker program, again without any guidelines as to how it would be done.

None of this is present in that one sentence in the LG’s 2007 speech.

Being pro-life is essential for someone to receive my support, but so is a belief in limited government, coupled with the stones to stand on those convictions.

A state like Texas should never have anything less than a conservative rock we can count on in the Senate.