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The same liberals who mocked opponents of Obama for claiming he was not born in [[Hawaii]] have decided to make the same case against Cruz for being born in Canada. Cruz's mother being an American citizen, just like Obama's mother, insures that he is American no matter what country he was born in. There are several differences in Obama/Cruz birth certificate controversies. Cruz released his immediately after it was requested. Obama held onto his for years, spending nearly $4 million in legal fees.{{fact}}
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The same liberals who mocked opponents of Obama for claiming he was not born in [[Hawaii]] have decided to make the same case against Cruz for being born in Canada. Cruz's mother being an American citizen (even though she voted in Canadian elections), just like Obama's mother, insures that he is American no matter what country he was born in. There are several differences in Obama/Cruz birth certificate controversies. Cruz released his immediately after it was requested. Obama held onto his for years, spending nearly $4 million in legal fees.{{fact}} Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship on May 14, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/19/cruz-will-renounce-canadian-citizenship/?wprss=rss_homepage|title=Cruz Will Renounce Canadian Citizenship|last=Blake|first=Aaron|date=August 19, 2013|work=[[The Washington Post]]|accessdate=August 20, 2013}}</ref>
  
 
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==Political positions==

Revision as of 21:38, February 6, 2016

Ted Cruz
Ted cruz.jpg
U.S. Senator from Texas
From: January 3, 2013 - Present
Predecessor Kay Bailey Hutchison
Successor Incumbent (no successor)
Information
Party Republican
Spouse(s) Heidi Cruz
Religion Southern Baptist

Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (born December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Canada) is the junior United States Senator from Texas, having won the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2012. A conservative Republican, he is the former Solicitor General of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state before the U.S. Supreme Court.[1]

Cruz's wife Heidi has been an executive for Goldman Sachs and is currently on leave from that liberal investment bank. She plays a prominent role in his campaign and policy positions, and fundraising. Ted Cruz has sided with some feminist positions. Heidi has been a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and was on the task force that recommended the leftist North American Union.[2]

Cruz is promoted heavily by neocons who like his interventionalist foreign policy, but some conservatives see more grandstanding than achievement on social issues. Cruz would not pledge to prohibit enforcement of the homosexual marriage decision in Obergefell and failed to ask Attorneys General to seek reconsideration of the 5-4 decision.

In prior elections, Cruz has been supported by the Tea Party movement, Tea Party Express, Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, Erick Erickson of RedState, Mark Levin, and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, but also by pro-homosexual donors as discussed below.

In the Texas Senate primary elections of May 29, 2012, Cruz finished second to Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, but the nine-candidate Republican field forced a run-off. On July 31, Cruz defeated Dewhurst in a second round of voting. Cruz easily defeated Democrat former State Representative Paul Sadler in the general election.

Biography

Cruz's father Rafael Bienvenido Cruz fought alongside the communist Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution when he was only 14 years old and was imprisoned three years later for his political activities. In 1957, he escaped to the United States. Today he is a pastor in Dallas[3]. Cruz's mother is American. After Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada, the family moved to Texas. Cruz is a Southern Baptist, married with two children.

Cruz attended Princeton where he authored a senior thesis on the 9th and 10th Amendments to the United States Constitution, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels".[4]

As a student at Harvard Law School, Cruz was more of a libertarian than a social conservative.[5] He graduated magna cum laude, with his Juris Doctor degree.

Texas Solicitor General

Cruz served as Solicitor General for the state of Texas. While Solicitor General, Cruz was involved with court cases such as Medellin v. Texas, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, Van Orden v. Perry, and D.C. v. Heller.

Senate career

Cruz was elected as a member of the Senate in 2012. Beginning on September 24, 2013, Cruz gave a 21-hour speech on the senate floor against Obamacare. The speech greatly boosted his national profile and led to denunciations from the liberal media.[6]

Campaigns financed by substantial pro-homosexual donations

The Texas Tribune determined in 2012 that Ted Cruz's:[7]

largest longtime contributor is a gay billionaire who supports same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization, campaign finance filings show. Peter Thiel, a German-born hedge fund manager and founder of the online payment system PayPal, gave Cruz $251,000 in 2009 for his aborted run for attorney general. The money represented 19 percent of the total raised for that campaign, which Cruz ended after Attorney General Greg Abbott decided to run for re-election.

The Texas Monthly ran a similar exposé entitled, "Ted Cruz's Gay Marriage Money." This article described how one of Cruz's donors has been:[8]

Paul Elliott Singer of the hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation. Singer, whose son married his partner, donated $425,000 and raised another $500,000 to push for legalization of same-sex marriage in New York. In 2012, Singer donated $1 million to the American Unity PAC, with the purpose of supporting candidates who back gay marriage. Singer gave Cruz $25,000 in 2009.

In April, the New York Times ran an article about the special fundraising meeting that Cruz had in Manhattan with homosexual potential donors: "At New York Reception, Ted Cruz Said to Strike Different Tone Toward Gays."

Judicial nominees

Ted Cruz recommended Judge Gregg Costa for nomination and confirmation to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.[9] As a Senator from Texas, Cruz could have blocked the nomination. Instead, Cruz's support made it happen.

Within five months of his confirmation in May 2014, Judge Costa then voted in favor of rehearing Planned Parenthood's case in their attempt to reverse a Fifth Circuit's ruling that had upheld the pro-women, pro-life Texas House Bill 2, a good law that resulted in the closure of roughly half the abortion clinics in Texas. Judge Edith Jones and the majority of the Fifth Circuit outvoted Costa on the petition for rehearing en banc in Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Surgical Health Servs. v. Abbott.[10]

It was obvious prior to Ted Cruz's recommendation that Judge Costa was not pro-life. In one of his decisions as a United States district court judge in 2012, Judge Costa uncritically cited Roe v. Wade for a procedural point. Judge Costa had also been a Democrat volunteer in college in the 1990s.

2016 presidential race

On March 23, 2015, Cruz became the first person to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 in a speech before an audience at Liberty University.[11] The predictable liberal media immediately went on the offense claiming he has no chance but was in awe of his speech without teleprompters.[Citation Needed] His wife would take a leave of absence from her job at Goldman Sachs to join her husband on the campaign trail. This decision left his family without health insurance. Cruz, by law, has to be insured and took Obamacare coverage. This drove the media batty at the irony of railing against Obamacare but using it.[Citation Needed] Simply put, this does not mean he endorses Obamacare; rather, it shows his commitment to follow the rule of law.

Cruz would raise $4 million in donations after the first week of his announcement. Liberal media jaws hit the floor when it was learned he raised $31 million in one week from PACs[12].

Eligibility

The same liberals who mocked opponents of Obama for claiming he was not born in Hawaii have decided to make the same case against Cruz for being born in Canada. Cruz's mother being an American citizen (even though she voted in Canadian elections), just like Obama's mother, insures that he is American no matter what country he was born in. There are several differences in Obama/Cruz birth certificate controversies. Cruz released his immediately after it was requested. Obama held onto his for years, spending nearly $4 million in legal fees.[Citation Needed] Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship on May 14, 2014.[13]

Political positions

Cruz opposes illegal immigration[14], gun control and homosexuality. He is pro-life[15], supports the death penalty[16] and believes that the USA should not get involved in the Syrian Civil War[17].

Cruz has effectively criticized RINOs, calling them "squishes."[18]

Best selling author

The New York Times has engaged in a scheme to keep Cruz's book off of its bestseller list.[19]

Quote

"Tonight's speech was less a State of the Union and more a state of denial." (January 12, 2016)

Books

A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America (2015)
Ted Cruz: For God and Country (2015)

See also

External Links

Various articles:

References

  1. Cruz has authored more than eighty U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued forty oral arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
  2. "Building a North American Community/More about this publication" (May 2005). Council on Foreign Relations website/Canada.
  3. Cruz, Ted (May 20, 2013). "Senator Ted Cruz: Confronting the threat of radical Islam". FrontPage Magazine. See FrontPage Magazine
  4. Ted Cruz's 1992 Princeton Undergrad Thesis, "Clipping the Wings of Angels"
  5. "What was Ted Cruz like at Harvard?" (May 30, 2015). Huffington Post website/Metro New York blog. See Huffington Post.
  6. "The embarrassment of Senator Ted Cruz". New York Times website (September 24th, 2013). See New York Times
  7. Root, Jay (July 3, 2012). "Cruz mega-donor is gay, pro-pot billionaire". The Texas Tribune website.
  8. Ratcliffe, R. G. (March 22, 2015). "Ted Cruz's gay marriage money". TexasMonthly website.
  9. "Dallas Morning News: Senate confirms Cornyn and Cruz pick for appeals court" (May 20, 2014). Ted Cruz U.S. Senate webpage/Press office/News.
  10. Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Surgical Health Servs. v. Abbott, Vol. 769 Federal Reporter, 3rd series Opinion 330, p. 2 (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit October 9, 2014). Retrieved from United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit website on February 6, 2016.
  11. "Ted Cruz presidential campaign announcement" (March 23, 2015). C-SPAN video, 38:18. See C-SPAN
  12. Boyle, Matthew (April 8, 2015). "Mark Halperin: Unprecedented $31 million super PAC effort backing Ted Cruz for president". Breitbart News Network/Big government. See Breitbart News Network
  13. Blake, Aaron. "Cruz Will Renounce Canadian Citizenship", The Washington Post, August 19, 2013. Retrieved on August 20, 2013. 
  14. "Ted Cruz on immigration" (January 20, 2015). On the Issues website.
  15. Bair, Andrew (June 5, 2013). "Pro-life Senator Ted Cruz to address National Right to Life Convention". LifeNews.com. See LifeNews.com
  16. "Ted Cruz on the issues/Ted Cruz on crime" (February 2015). On the Issues website.
  17. Tomasky, Michael (September 9, 2013). "Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and their craven and brazen hypocrisy on Syria". The Daily Beast. See The Daily Beast
  18. Weiner, Rachel (April 29, 2013). "Ted Cruz mocks Senate Republican ‘squishes’". Washington Post. See Washington Post
  19. Howerton, Jason (July 9, 2015). "Despite stellar sales, New York Times keeps Ted Cruz’s new book off bestseller list—here’s the excuse given". The Blaze website. See The Blaze.