Radio Host asks Cruz about his wife, the Goldman-Sachs Banker

[Valli6]

Jan Mickelson, an Iowa radio show's host, spoke with Ted Cruz about his wife being a banker.

IOWA RADIO HOST RIBS TED CRUZ FOR MARRYING GOLDMAN SACHS BANKER
by CHARLIE SPIERING
Mar 9 2015

During a interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, Iowa Radio Show Host Jan Mickelson joked about the Texas senator’s wife Heidi, who works for Goldman Sachs.

While discussing economics, Cruz explained that he grew up reading economists such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

“So why did you marry the enemy then?” Mickelson interrupted.
Cruz laughed and paused, as Mickelson chuckled.
“You married a banker … she’s a great looking banker, I hasten to add, very nice lady too by the way,” Mickelson continued.
“She’s beautiful, she is brilliant, you know she’s actually the child of missionaries in Africa,” Cruz said.
Mickelson continued the exchange, marveling that “missionaries gave birth to a banker."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...s-ted-cruz-for-marrying-goldman-sachs-banker/

Most comments at Breitbart pretending it couldn't possibly mean a thing.

 

[devil21]

Oh good grief. Cruz compares his wife at Goldman to a disciple of Jesus, infiltrating the bank to help the "sick" (bankers)? GTFO.

 

[torchbearer]

i'm not saying it's aliens.

 

[William Tell]

Oh good grief. Cruz compares his wife at Goldman to a disciple of Jesus, infiltrating the bank to help the "sick" (bankers)? GTFO.

Yeah, when running for Senate he claimed that his wife was told to join the CFR by George W Bush so that conservatives would have an influence there. He did not say that publicly as far as I know, but I know for a fact that he said so when asked by liberty activists.

 

[devil21]

Yeah, when running for Senate he claimed that his wife was told to join the CFR by George W Bush so that conservatives would have an influence there. He did not say that publicly as far as I know, but I know for a fact that he said so when asked by liberty activists.

Yeah, since ya just sign up to be a CFR member and Goldman wealth executive manager in Houston

 

[Krugminator2]

Is working for Goldman Sachs or working in banking supposed to a be a negative or something? Seriously.

I would much rather see criticism of Cruz' ties to neocons not his wife being a high achiever.

 

[Valli6]

Is working for Goldman Sachs or working in banking supposed to a be a negative or something? Seriously.
I would much rather see criticism of Cruz' ties to neocons not his wife being a high achiever.

It’s one of several red flags regarding the Cruz family.

Heidi Cruz:

Worked for JP Morgan
Worked for the Bush administration:

Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere, National Security Council, adviser to George W. Bush
Director at the U.S. Treasury Department
Special Policy Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick who was Chief U.S. international trade negotiator,
Zoellick then became president of the World Bank​

Former member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Along with Ted, helped Jeb's son, George P. Bush found maverickpac
Currently works for Goldman Sachs
​

Seems pretty unlikely that the Cruzs would ever work to bring about anything the establishment doesn’t want - an audit of the Federal Reserve, for example.

 

[Vanguard101]

This is so disrespectful. I swear some of you conspiracy thinkers are retards. Instead of attacking Cruz for his antiliberty issues, you attack his wife for working at a bank

 

[PAF]

This is so disrespectful. I swear some of you conspiracy thinkers are retards. Instead of attacking Cruz for his antiliberty issues, you attack his wife for working at a bank

Red flags abound.

- Senator Cruz was born December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and thus automatically a Canadian citizen. Cruz's father was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba, his mother born in Wilmington, Delaware. Cruz announced that he is renouncing his Canadian citizenship. [See “natural born citizen” as required by Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the US Constitution for President and by the 12th Amendment for Vice President.]

After his student visa expired, Rafael Cruz obtained political asylum in the U.S. He then found work with the oil industry in Canada, where Ted Cruz was born. Rafael Bienvenido Cruz became a Canadian citizen while in Canada. While his son was serving as solicitor general of Texas in 2005, Rafael Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship and became an American citizen.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/2...-follow-rules/

- Ted Cruz, member of The Senate Armed Services Committee, voted YES on the markup of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included a provision that would authorize the Department of Defense to train and equip Syrian forces.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...-gas-on-a-fire
http://www.armed-services.senate.gov...2005-23-14.pdf

- Ted Cruz’s Obamacare speech was not a true filibuster. A true filibuster is an attempt to stop a piece of legislation dead in its tracks by refusing to let the Senate proceed. Rather, Cruz’s time on the floor was an agreement he had made with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid to let him talk for 21 hours, followed by a vote at 1pm EST September 25, 2013. When the vote commenced, Cruz in fact voted in FAVOR of advancing the bill (the Senate bill passed 100-0).

- Ted Cruz represented a Chinese company found guilty ($26 million judgment) of stealing blueprints from an American manufacturer. (2010) http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-99049499.html

- Ted Cruz is co-sponsor of S. 1881 (Bob Menendez, D-NJ) To expand sanctions imposed with respect to Iran and to impose additional sanctions with respect to Iran, and for other purposes. (Dec 2013)

- In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.

- Cruz joined the Bush–Cheney campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising President George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform. There he met his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, another policy adviser who works for Goldman Sachs.

- Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, winning twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.

- After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

- George P. Bush, the nephew of former President George W. Bush, endorsed Cruz for U.S. Senate.

"Ted is the future of the Republican Party," Bush said in a statement. "He is a proven conservative, and his personal story embodies the American Dream. Like Marco Rubio in Florida ( http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-On-The-Record ), I am confident that Ted will inspire a new generation of leaders to stand up and defend American Exceptionalism."

- Heidi Cruz, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics and international relations from CMC in 1994, is a vice president 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.

- Ms. Cruz began her career as an investment banker with JPMorgan in New York, focusing on international structured finance and subsequently on Latin America mergers and acquisitions.

- In 2000, she served on the Bush 2000 Campaign in Austin as one of President George W. Bush's three economic advisors. She also served in the Administration as the economic director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council at the White House, advising the President and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. She also is a former director at the U.S. Treasury Department and was special policy assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, then Chief U.S. international trade negotiator.

- Heidi Cruz was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

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- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz - who notoriously attempted to lecture Sen. Dianne Feinstein yesterday about the Constitution and the Second Amendment, asserting his deep knowledge of the subject as the submitter of an amicus brief representing 31 states in the Supreme Court's Heller case - seems to be caught in a huge contradiction that begs for clarification.

Yesterday, during the Senate Judiciary Committee's consideration of the assault weapons ban bill, Cruz flatly asserted that the Supreme Court's District of Columbia v. Heller decision absolutely prohibits the proposed federal ban on assault weapons. Yet, in the brief he proudly pointed to submitting he claimed that a favorable ruling in the case would not undermine the constitutionality of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban, which had expired in 2004 and which included many of the weapons inthe current bill. His brief said that "none of the federal firearms regulations discussed in the United States's brief is jeopardized by the Court of Appeals's decision." The federal assault weapons ban was one of those regulations discussed in brief submitted by the United States.

In addition, as the Yelling at the TV blog has pointed out, Cruz's brief also specifically called state assault weapons bans reasonable:

Indeed, it bears emphasis that amici States likewise have a strong interest in maintaining the many state laws prohibiting felons in possession, restricting machine guns and sawed-off shotguns, and the like. See Appendix.

But all 31 amici States agree that striking down the District of Columbia's categorical ban on all operative firearms would pose no threat to these reasonable regulations. (emphasis added)

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?432689-Ted-Cruz-and-Wife-Heidi-Neslon-Cruz-Bios

 

[thoughtomator]

Is working for Goldman Sachs or working in banking supposed to a be a negative or something? Seriously.

It's a 100% deal-breaker when the fight of our time is the people vs. the banks.

 

[Valli6]

This is so disrespectful. I swear some of you conspiracy thinkers are retards. Instead of attacking Cruz for his antiliberty issues, you attack his wife for working at a bank

The original story is specifically about the person Ted Cruz chose to marry. There are plenty of other threads specifically about Ted Cruz, and I have commented in many of them.

Furthermore, what disrespect? What attack? What conspiracy? And who's the retard?

I posted a video and some accurate facts, not theories.
We can all draw our own conclusions.

I would make a similar post if I found out that some family member of Rand Paul's, Mike Lee's, Thomas Massie's or Justin Amash's rubbed elbows with the Bush family, or worked for a previous administration, or in the U.S. Treasury Department, or assisted the eventual head of the World Bank, or worked for JP Morgan or Goldman-Sachs.

I find it helpful to take such facts into account, when I assess the accuracy of someone's claim of being a political "outsider", and their likelihood of truly wanting to audit the the Fed, or end the IRS.

 

[Krugminator2]

It's a 100% deal-breaker when the fight of our time is the people vs. the banks.

Banking is the single greatest development in the modern world. ALL economic growth comes from capital reinvestment. There is no such thing as a civilized country without banks.

Investment banks like Goldman Sachs match investors with companies who want to raise capital. I am eternally thankful that people provided Apple and Google and all of these great biotechs with capital to grow and expand their businesses.

To the extent that any business is able to game the system, that isn't their fault. That is the fault of the government and voters who allow it. And it isn't a coincidence that the Muslim countries who are anti-banking and anti-investment are poor.

 

[devil21]

Banking is the single greatest development in the modern world. ALL economic growth comes from capital reinvestment. There is no such thing as a civilized country without banks.

Who else would steal the wealth of the productive class, under false pretenses, in the name of 'development'?

Investment banks like Goldman Sachs match investors with companies that want to raise capital. I am eternally thankful that people provided Apple and Google and all of these great biotechs with capital to grow and expand their businesses.

Investment banks like Goldman Sachs also get 100 cents on the dollar bail-outs on bad bets like AIG, instead of going out of business and letting the market work.

To the extent that any business is able to game the system, that isn't their fault. That is the fault of the government and voters who allow it.

What about when the government is the business? It's not like Hank Paulson was the CEO of Goldman before he became SecTreas and then bailed out his old firm. Oh wait....he did, didn't he?

 

[The One]

I don't think I'd be comfortable letting my wife work at a place called Gold Man Sacks.

 

[Vanguard101]

The original story is specifically about the person Ted Cruz chose to marry. There are plenty of other threads specifically about Ted Cruz, and I have commented in many of them.

Furthermore, what disrespect? What attack? What conspiracy? And who's the retard?

I posted a video and some accurate facts, not theories.
We can all draw our own conclusions.

I would make a similar post if I found out that some family member of Rand Paul's, Mike Lee's, Thomas Massie's or Justin Amash's rubbed elbows with the Bush family, or worked for a previous administration, or in the U.S. Treasury Department, or assisted the eventual head of the World Bank, or worked for JP Morgan or Goldman-Sachs.

I find it helpful to take such facts into account, when I assess the accuracy of someone's claim of being a political "outsider", and their likelihood of truly wanting to audit the the Fed, or end the IRS.

So what you really are saying is you are mad he is married to someone working for Goldman Sachs.

 

[fr33]

So what you really are saying is you are mad he is married to someone working for Goldman Sachs.

And a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

It was a brilliant co-option of the tea party. Ron Paul played his part in getting this stooge in office.

 

[thoughtomator]

Banking is the single greatest development in the modern world. ALL economic growth comes from capital reinvestment. There is no such thing as a civilized country without banks.

Investment banks like Goldman Sachs match investors with companies who want to raise capital. I am eternally thankful that people provided Apple and Google and all of these great biotechs with capital to grow and expand their businesses.

To the extent that any business is able to game the system, that isn't their fault. That is the fault of the government and voters who allow it. And it isn't a coincidence that the Muslim countries who are anti-banking and anti-investment are poor.

I award you an A+ in the field of deadpan sarcasm. Bravo, sir, well done, well done indeed!

 

[thoughtomator]

So what you really are saying is you are mad he is married to someone working for Goldman Sachs.

Actually it's about a massive and systemic series of conflicts of interest that threaten to enslave our posterity to theirs, in perpetuity. But lets pretend it's about who's married to whom, anyway.

 

[devil21]

Actually it's about a massive and systemic series of conflicts of interest that threaten to enslave our posterity to theirs, in perpetuity. But lets pretend it's about who's married to whom, anyway.

Whoa, don't discount the very real blood connections that make the systemic series of conflicts of interest. What is a conflict of interest, if it's not personal ties?

 

[jmdrake]

This is so disrespectful. I swear some of you conspiracy thinkers are retards. Instead of attacking Cruz for his antiliberty issues, you attack his wife for working at a bank

It's not a conspiracy theory. One of the things that launched the "tea party" (the teocon version of it) as anger over the bailouts. And Cruz is married to an executive of one of the largest recipients of bailout money. And it wasn't a conspiracy theorist who brought this up. It was a conservative talk radio host.