Unlike Obama, Cruz is forthcoming and transparent about his biography
The KWQC News 5:00PM edition had a report about Ted Cruz hosting town halls in the area tomorrow but failed to specify that he will be in Bettendorf at 4:00 PM on Monday at the Tanglewood Pavilion Middle Road. We called them about it and they indicated the information would be on subsequent reports.
1:30pm 4:00pm
Big River Packaging Tanglewood Hills
1905 Lincoln Way 4250 Middle Rd.
Clinton, IA 52732 Bettendorf, IA 52722
The town halls are open to the public but RSVPs are requested
Here is a compelling and checkable five-point biographical sketch of Ted Cruz that appeared in Grasstops USA today. Cruz’s background is not going to be obscured. He has no reason to and has more character than to do so anyway. His personal and academic record, including matriculation, his writings and legal work, are not hidden.
Ted Cruz’s Father Rafael Supported Fidel Castro (1 of 5)
Like most young people Senator Cruz’s father, Rafael, was a passionate teenager and sought to overthrow those oppressing his countrymen. Rafael’s conflicts with the Cuban government began when he was teenager. During the regime of Fulgencio Batista, Rafael became a revolutionary, supporting Fidel Castro.
Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz was born in 1939 in Cuba. Rafael’s father, Rafael Cruz, was a salesman for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) at the height of the era of radio. Rafael’s father was originally from the Canary Islands in Spain. And, Rafael B. Cruz’s mother, Laudelina Diaz, who was also from the Canary Island, was a school teacher.
Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar was a native of Cuba, with mixed Spanish, African, Indian and Chinese blood. He initially came to power as part of the 1933 “Revolt of the Sergeants” which overthrew the authoritarian ruler Gerardo Machado.
Following the revolution, Batista appointed himself Chief of the Armed Forces. Batista was able to maintain his control through puppet presidents until 1940. In an attempt to legitimize his control, Batista was elected President of Cuba on a so-called populist platform. He served until 1944.
After his Presidency, he moved to the United States, splitting his time between the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and his home in Daytona Beach, Florida. During this time he clearly made in-roads in American political circles. Connections he would come to draw upon to stifle young revolutionaries such as Rafael Cruz.
When Batista returned to Cuba to run for president in 1952, faced with obvious defeat, he chose to lead a military coup. The coup was a success and he reigned as Dictator of Cuba from 1952 to 1959 and Rafael Cruz, along with others from his school, would often clash with Batista’s officials.
Suffering torture at the hands of Batista’s men, Rafael Cruz decided to join forces with Fidel Castro’s guerrilla group. Rafael’s main desire was to see the overthrow of Batista, and like so many people, it blinded him to Castro’s Communist politics.
However, by the age of 18, Rafael realized his future was not going to end well in Cuba. So, his family bribed a Batista official to get him out of the country. Sadly, Ted Cruz’s aunt, Rafael’s younger sister, joined the counter-revolution and for this was tortured by Fidel Castro when he became Dictator of Cuba.
By 1960, on a trip back to Cuba, Rafael Cruz realized how mistaken he had been about Fidel Castro. Earlier, the young revolutionary Rafael Cruz had gone around his new home of Austin, Texas and raised money to send to Castro for his revolution.
An able fundraiser, he had huge checks written by numerous Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs members in Texas. But, following his 1960 trip to Cuba, he returned to Austin and spent a great deal of time going to each group, where he had solicited funds, and personally apologized for misleading the people. He publicly told everyone how wrong he had been about Castro.
His father’s public act of apology would have a profound effect on Ted Cruz. He would grow up knowing the perils of naively placed political ideology. Senator Ted Cruz learned from his father’s mistakes and his courage to take responsibility for those mistakes.
Cruz’s Father, Rafael, Was Previous Married Before Meeting Cruz’s Mother (2 of 5)
Ted Cruz’s mother was not Rafael Cruz’s first wife. While working in Texas in the Energy Industry, Rafael Cruz met his first wife, Julia Anne Garza.
While working in Texas in the Energy Industry, Rafael Cruz met his first wife, Julia Anne Garza and had two daughters. One is now a Physician in Texas and the other sadly deceased. Ted Cruz’s mother had also been married before and had one previous child, another son who tragically died during his early childhood.
Following his divorce from his first wife, Rafael Cruz moved to New Orleans, Louisiana for a new job in the Energy Industry. It was while working in New Orleans that Senator Cruz’s parents would meet. His mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson, was originally from Delaware.
Senator Cruz’s mother had come South to study Mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. As she likes to tell it, she refused to learn to type so that when asked about her typing skills, she would say she couldn’t and they would have to hire her as a Computer Programmer instead. It was while working as a Computer Programmer in the Oil Industry, that she met Rafael Cruz.
After their marriage, Senator Cruz’s parents took their careers to the Oil Industry in Canada. It was in Canada that Senator Cruz was born. He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on December 22, 1970.
Now that he is running for President of the United States, a lot has been made of the fact that Senator Cruz wasn’t “born on American soil.” But, unlike the issue surrounding Obama’s purported birth in Kenya and its subsequent cover-up, Cruz’s birth in Canada is and was public knowledge, not in the slightest covered up.
In order to clear up any misconceptions, it should be stated, without a doubt, that Ted Cruz is an American citizen. Citizen is bestowed by both “soil” and “blood.” For individuals not born on American soil, the statues on citizenship are very clear. Prior to 1985, to be a American citizen, one of your parents, at the time of your birth, must be an American citizen, at least 19 years old and must have spent at least 5 of past 10 years in the United States prior to your birth.
Cruz’s mother, Eleanor, certainly qualified. That’s why Ted Cruz (and Senator John McCain and the late-Senator Barry Goldwater for that matter) is unquestionably a American citizen.
Incidentally, Barack Hussein Obama can’t claim citizenship by “blood.” His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was only 18 years of age when he was born. For Barack Obama to be a citizen-at-birth, it is essential that he was born on U.S. Soil. That’s why the issue of the birth certificate became so important. Obama needed proof that he was born in Hawaii to be considered a citizen-at-birth.
Incidentally, Cruz’s mother never applied for the Canadian Citizenship that was thrust upon Cruz as she assumed that he was only an American Citizen. Not until a Dallas Morning News article during his Senate Race appeared, did Cruz even realize that he had Citizenship in Canada; and in 2014 Senator Cruz revoked his unsought-after Canadian Citizenship.
Shortly after Cruz’s birth, his parents decided to return to Texas. They chose Houston, a city with a strong Oil Industry presence, to relocate their seismic-data processing firm for oil drillers. Shortly thereafter, Cruz’s father become a Born-Again Christian. And, while their marriage had been strained, Senators Cruz’s parents stayed together following his father’s acceptance of Jesus Christ into his life. Thus, the move to Houston, Texas would shape a great deal of Senator Cruz’s current political and religious views.
An American through and through, Senator Cruz is proud of his U.S. Citizenship, which he has had from the moment of his birth.
Uber-Liberal Alan Dershowitz Says Cruz Is ‘Off The Chart Brilliant’
Speaking of Cruz as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”
Of the many “firsts” Senator Ted Cruz likes to talk about, one that is instrumental in shaping the person he is today, is that Cruz was the first graduate of his high school to be accepted to an Ivy League University.
Senator Cruz attended Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas. He graduated as Valedictorian in 1988 from Second Baptist School. Second Baptist School was founded in 1946 and currently sits on a 56-acre campus in the Memorial section of Houston, Texas. With approximately 1,200 students, the school is part of the Second Baptist Church of Houston and has 1,000,000 square feet of educational and recreational facilities.
Cruz’s attendance at Second Baptist School is a testament to his parents’ value of education and hard work. Due to their success in the Oil Industry, they were able to afford the expensive tuition of this Christian college preparatory school. These values set up Cruz to cope with the difficult academics at his first Ivy League school, Princeton University.
In 1992 Senator Ted Cruz graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University. At Princeton he studied in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and received his Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy. By his Senior Year, Cruz had won the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel “Top Speaker Award” at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.
Also in 1992 as a senior at Princeton, Cruz was named the U.S. National Speaker of the Year, as well as Team of the Year, with his debate partner. The Society’s precursors, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society, were founded at Princeton University in 1769 and 1765, respectively, by James Madison, William Paterson, Oliver Ellsworth, and Aaron Burr.
But, Princeton was just a warm-up for Harvard Law School. And, Cruz hit the ground running. Senator Cruz graduated Magna Cum Laude and was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Speaking of Cruz as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”
Cruz was a Primary Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was also Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a Founding Editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.
Cruz’s academic record and the reflections of his professors show his taking the Ivy League by storm. Unlike a lot of politicians who use their Ivy League credentials in name only, Cruz actually worked, studied and participated in all that his elite alma mater has to offer.
Senator Ted Cruz Was The First Hispanic To Clerk For A Chief Justice Of The United States Supreme Court (4 of 5)
Taking a clerkship with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Cruz became the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Following his stellar academic career at Harvard Law School, in 1996 Ted Cruz headed to Washington, D.C. and accepted a clerkship with Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon and served as Chief Justice from September 26, 1986 until September 3, 2005. Chief Justice Rehnquist, the 16th Chief Justice of the United States, led the bench for nearly 19 years. Prior to serving as Chief Justice, he served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 7, 1972 until his appointment as Chief Justice in September of 1986.
Cruz and Chief Justice Rehnquist were aligned on their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. As a Conservative, Rehnquist took a Federalist position which focused on the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment favoring State’s rights.
In 1999 Cruz worked on the George W. Bush Presidential Campaign. He later became an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and served as the Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
After his time in Washington, D.C., Cruz returned to Texas to become the first Hispanic Solicitor General of Texas. Appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 until 2008.
As Solicitor General of Texas, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, more than any currently practicing attorney in Texas. His landmark case in 2004 was the Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow case. Cruz wrote the successful U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 of the United States.
Obviously, he’d like to be the first Hispanic President of the United States of America. Unfortunately, because of his “sin” of being a Conservative, many Hispanics in the United States are being told to not support him. Showing usual liberal media bias, Jorge Ramos, of Mexican Univision, has even gone so far as to ask Senator Cruz, “Do you have a Latino problem?” This criticism is particularly ironic coming from Jorge Ramos, whom many have accused of simply being what is called a “White Hispanic” or an American citizen or resident who is racially white.
But regardless of this criticism from the liberal left, Cruz is determined to press ahead to become the first Hispanic President of the United States of America. And, if his track record of “firsts” is any indicator of future success, he has a good shot at achieving this goal.
Senator Ted Cruz Once Praised Michelle Obama (5 of 5)
Cruz posted, “Kudos to First Lady Michelle Obama for standing up for women worldwide and refusing to wear a Sharia-mandated head-scarf in Saudi Arabia. Nicely done.”
Such praise can only come from someone who is not a career politician, but make no mistake, Cruz is a committed conservative. At a time when career politicians are associated with the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Saunders and a whole host of “Republicans in Name Only,” Senator Ted Cruz has the background to backup his claim that he is truly from “Outside the Beltway.”
The first political campaign ever run by Cruz was in 2012. Never one to think small, Cruz began his political career in 2011 by announcing that he would run for the Senate seat vacated by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. The Republican Primary pitted Cruz against the strong Texas Republican candidate, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst.
But, Cruz’s Conservative roots garnered him support with the then newly emerging Tea Party movement. So popular was Cruz’s campaign, he picked up endorsements from such Conservative heavy hitters as:
Sarah Palin
Club for Growth
Erick Erickson
FreedomWorks for America Super PAC
Mark Levin
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese
Tea Party Express
Young Conservatives of Texas
Senator Tom Coburn
Senator Jim DeMint
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Rand Paul
Senator Pat Toomey
Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul
George P. Bush, then Deputy Finance Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
Cruz and his family take their commitment to the private sector as seriously as their commitment to public service. His wife, Heidi Cruz worked as an Investment Banker prior to her husband’s campaign in 2011. In addition, Ted Cruz is currently in private practice as a partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Limited Liability Partnership (Morgan Lewis). Morgan Lewis was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1873 and is still headquartered there.
Senator Cruz is so much not a career politician, he will heap praise across the aisle if he believes it is due. This commitment to fairness was evidenced in an early 2015 Facebook post, following Michelle Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia with her husband, Barrack Hussein Obama. During the visit to the most conservative Muslim nation, where women have little to no rights, Michelle Obama did not cover her head. Cruz praised her for this. He posted, “Kudos to First Lady Michelle Obama for standing up for women worldwide and refusing to wear a Sharia-mandated head-scarf in Saudi Arabia. Nicely done.”
Clearly not a Career Politician, willing to reach across party lines when it is appropriate, Senator Cruz tries to set a new benchmark for what it means to be a Republican in Washington, D.C.
