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August 7th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are spearheading the effort to build a “grassroots army” to influence GOP leadership after entreaties to their colleagues fell short.
So far, only 13 Senate Republicans have signed onto a plan to block any stopgap spending measure funding the government beyond Sept. 30 unless it cuts funding for the healthcare law.
Supporters of the push are taking their message directly to the Republican base this month. They are promoting an online petition that has already gathered 217,578 signatures.
Cruz is flying to the presidential battleground state of Iowa at the end of the week to meet with activists and tout the importance of using every tool available to fight the implementation of ObamaCare.
“He’s trying to build a grassroots army over the August recess,” said a GOP aide familiar with Cruz’s strategy.
Cruz plotted strategy with conservatives from the Senate and House shortly before Congress left town.
“If we see in the next 60 days hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans lighting up the phones, calling their House members, calling up their senators and saying, ‘Stand for principle, this isn’t working, it’s destroying the economy, it’s hurting jobs, it’s destroying healthcare, it’s driving up our premiums, defund it,’ that’s how we win,” Cruz told conservative lawmakers at a recent bicameral meeting.
On Friday, Cruz touted the push to defund ObamaCare at a conference of conservative activists in New Orleans hosted by RedState.com, a prominent conservative blog. The Hill
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