Ted Cruz is Candidate Cruz - Rough Biography
Mar 23, 2015 15:05:06 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 15:05:06 GMT -6
Well, it's official I suppose... The 2016 races are off, and the early birds are showing up to preen and show off for the media. One of the first up? Ted Cruz!
Lets have a look at this Gentleman, eh?
Ted Cruz (Also known as Rafael Edward Cruz)
Born: December, 1970 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Education: Princeton onto Harvard and graduated with honors from both schools.
Public Sector History:
* Current Role: U.S. Senator for Texas (Elected - 2012)
* Previous Job: Solicitor General of Texas (Elected 2002 - Served to 2008
(In reaching the Solicitor General Position, he became the nations youngest and in Texas, the longest serving as well as first Hispanic to hold the position.)
* Adjunct Professor at University of Texas - School of Law (2004-2009)
* Domestic Policy Adviser to Bush Campaign (2000)
* Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the FTC and Associate Attorney General (1999-2003)
Private Sector:
Last Position: Cruz made partner and handled the Supreme Court and federal Appellate matters at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP in Houston, Texas. He is listed as having spent 5 years there on his Senate site.
Prior to the Bush administration, his history runs typical to a Harvard grad working through clerkship and legal work to earn the next rung up the ladder. Nothing remarkable I saw.
His senate page also lists his achievements while Solicitor General to Texas (the guy who argues or plans strategy to Federal Courts and the Super Court, when the state is in them) as follows:
Family Background:
Father:
Mother:
Summary: Father is a Pastor, and Mom is a Managing Director in Texas for Goldman Sachs & Company
Policy Positions:
Opening Statements at Start of Campaign:
Future Positions As Time Passes: ? ? ? ?
I haven't really had much opinion about him, because he strikes me as another Bob Dole type. He is likely to place in the nominations, but I doubt he ever reaches a point close to winning it.
Baggage he carries includes:
* being born outside this nation ...and some still pushing the Birther issue can prove themselves consistent, or hypocrites..right about now on that one.
* He was central and played a leading role in the Republican side of the Government Shutdown in September of 2013. A moment which could have been a positive, but with no positive outcome gained or ever realistic in the effort? I have to call reading 'Green Eggs and Ham' to his kids, from the Congressional Floor to extend the filibuster ... singularly unimpressive.
* Family ties directly to the executive levels of Goldman Sachs (This probably needs no explanation)
* "Promise Everything!" statements used to open his 2016 run. By now, this has to be a negative for those who no longer believe "everything they promise". I'm not sure I'd give him odds on 1/4 of his ideas, and it'll be 4 endless years of fighting to get that much.
* Establishment history to include service to Bush and service to the Bush Campaign itself, in 2000. (Wow... Perhaps MORE polarizing than Jeb bush himself, as Jeb is just related ..and wasn't a direct participant in what many have come to dislike and many others? Outright hate in recent history)
So there you have it, everyone! Ted Cruz...or his other name...and why not use it, anyway? If he is Hispanic at heart and not just to claim the sliver of blood his Cuban father gave him, you'd think the family name would be a point of pride. Mine sure is to me...and I don't have near as much to brag on.
Personal Note:
I once was a Birther, I can now admit. So it doesn't bother me to talk on this subject, and confident in having turned from the myth when I learned the truth by personal effort and research a couple years ago. Obama was, to my certain knowledge, born HERE. On US Soil. Although he plays the myth around it like an endless political gift that never stops giving. All he has to do for opponents to run away from current events and back to that? Crack a few jokes.. Works like it was meant to do that. :P
Having said that? IF Obama had proven to be born outside the US, then he SHOULD NOT have been President. I don't care if he became a naturalized citizen, and I don't think ANYONE ELSE would either, if politics didn't cloud it so badly.
However.. Cruz was born in Canada. Not here. I believe naturalized citizens (not born here, but citizen by oath and commitment) should have ALMOST every door open to them. Their children, born here afterward, SHOULD have EVERY door open, including the Presidency.
Having said that? The Constitution was written by simple men, in simple times. If armies of lawyers are required to make sense of how something SHOULD be allowed? Then IT PROBABLY ISN'T ALLOWED. It wasn't written like that in any OTHER area of the document ..why would we assume just the area dealing with qualification to serve as President would be where they secretly meant to complicate the process beyond all reason?
Read what is there, and it is clear. If Cruz becomes President, in my opinion, and regardless of whether he is the BEST man on EARTH for the job? He's taking over a nation built on NOTHING..and standing for NOTHING...if the rule of law needed 'bending' to get him there.
Just my view on that and I'm stickin' to it. :)
Lets have a look at this Gentleman, eh?
Ted Cruz (Also known as Rafael Edward Cruz)
Born: December, 1970 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Education: Princeton onto Harvard and graduated with honors from both schools.
Public Sector History:
* Current Role: U.S. Senator for Texas (Elected - 2012)
* Previous Job: Solicitor General of Texas (Elected 2002 - Served to 2008
(In reaching the Solicitor General Position, he became the nations youngest and in Texas, the longest serving as well as first Hispanic to hold the position.)
* Adjunct Professor at University of Texas - School of Law (2004-2009)
* Domestic Policy Adviser to Bush Campaign (2000)
* Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the FTC and Associate Attorney General (1999-2003)
Private Sector:
Last Position: Cruz made partner and handled the Supreme Court and federal Appellate matters at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP in Houston, Texas. He is listed as having spent 5 years there on his Senate site.
Prior to the Bush administration, his history runs typical to a Harvard grad working through clerkship and legal work to earn the next rung up the ladder. Nothing remarkable I saw.
His senate page also lists his achievements while Solicitor General to Texas (the guy who argues or plans strategy to Federal Courts and the Super Court, when the state is in them) as follows:
• U.S. sovereignty against the UN and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas;
• The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;
• The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and
• The Texas congressional redistricting plan.
Family Background:
Father:
Ted’s father was born in Cuba, fought in the revolution, and was imprisoned and tortured. He fled to Texas in 1957, penniless and not speaking a word of English. He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour, paid his way through the University of Texas, and started a small business in the oil and gas industry. Today, Ted’s father is a pastor in Dallas.
Mother:
Heidi Nelson Cruz is an Irish American and a successful business woman in her own right. Cruz, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics and international relations from CMC in 1994, is a managing director in the Private Wealth Management Group at Goldman Sachs, Texas. She and her two partners work with clients to implement high net worth portfolios across a range of investments and asset classes, including complex derivatives products, private equity, hedge funds, single stock risk management, U.S. and international equities, and fixed income.
Summary: Father is a Pastor, and Mom is a Managing Director in Texas for Goldman Sachs & Company
Policy Positions:
Opening Statements at Start of Campaign:
And he hit on many conservative principles to loud cheers and applause: repealing Obamacare, abolishing the IRS, establishing a flat tax, securing Second Amendment rights, protecting the border, doing away with "every word of Common Core," defending "the sanctity of human life," upholding "the sacrament of marriage," and standing "unapologetically" with Israel. In a windup to his announcement, he asked the students to "imagine a president" who would uphold these conservative values. As he paced the stage, it appeared he was reciting his speech from memory, without a teleprompter or notes.
Future Positions As Time Passes: ? ? ? ?
I haven't really had much opinion about him, because he strikes me as another Bob Dole type. He is likely to place in the nominations, but I doubt he ever reaches a point close to winning it.
Baggage he carries includes:
* being born outside this nation ...and some still pushing the Birther issue can prove themselves consistent, or hypocrites..right about now on that one.
* He was central and played a leading role in the Republican side of the Government Shutdown in September of 2013. A moment which could have been a positive, but with no positive outcome gained or ever realistic in the effort? I have to call reading 'Green Eggs and Ham' to his kids, from the Congressional Floor to extend the filibuster ... singularly unimpressive.
* Family ties directly to the executive levels of Goldman Sachs (This probably needs no explanation)
* "Promise Everything!" statements used to open his 2016 run. By now, this has to be a negative for those who no longer believe "everything they promise". I'm not sure I'd give him odds on 1/4 of his ideas, and it'll be 4 endless years of fighting to get that much.
* Establishment history to include service to Bush and service to the Bush Campaign itself, in 2000. (Wow... Perhaps MORE polarizing than Jeb bush himself, as Jeb is just related ..and wasn't a direct participant in what many have come to dislike and many others? Outright hate in recent history)
So there you have it, everyone! Ted Cruz...or his other name...and why not use it, anyway? If he is Hispanic at heart and not just to claim the sliver of blood his Cuban father gave him, you'd think the family name would be a point of pride. Mine sure is to me...and I don't have near as much to brag on.
Personal Note:
I once was a Birther, I can now admit. So it doesn't bother me to talk on this subject, and confident in having turned from the myth when I learned the truth by personal effort and research a couple years ago. Obama was, to my certain knowledge, born HERE. On US Soil. Although he plays the myth around it like an endless political gift that never stops giving. All he has to do for opponents to run away from current events and back to that? Crack a few jokes.. Works like it was meant to do that. :P
Having said that? IF Obama had proven to be born outside the US, then he SHOULD NOT have been President. I don't care if he became a naturalized citizen, and I don't think ANYONE ELSE would either, if politics didn't cloud it so badly.
However.. Cruz was born in Canada. Not here. I believe naturalized citizens (not born here, but citizen by oath and commitment) should have ALMOST every door open to them. Their children, born here afterward, SHOULD have EVERY door open, including the Presidency.
Having said that? The Constitution was written by simple men, in simple times. If armies of lawyers are required to make sense of how something SHOULD be allowed? Then IT PROBABLY ISN'T ALLOWED. It wasn't written like that in any OTHER area of the document ..why would we assume just the area dealing with qualification to serve as President would be where they secretly meant to complicate the process beyond all reason?
Read what is there, and it is clear. If Cruz becomes President, in my opinion, and regardless of whether he is the BEST man on EARTH for the job? He's taking over a nation built on NOTHING..and standing for NOTHING...if the rule of law needed 'bending' to get him there.
Just my view on that and I'm stickin' to it. :)
