~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
In a column for Foreign Policy Magazine, Council on Foreign Relations member James Traub argues that the elite need to “rise up” against the “mindlessly angry” ignorant masses in order to prevent globalization from being derailed by the populist revolt that led to Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump.
Concerned that, “Today’s citizen revolt — in the United States, Britain, and Europe — may upend politics as nothing else has in my lifetime,” Traub notes that Brexit was an “utter repudiation of….bankers and economists” and an example of how “extremism has gone mainstream”.
Citing the potential for Trump to split the Republican Party even if he loses and the increasing unpopularity of France’s socialist government, Traub argues that establishment political parties in major western countries must “combine forces to keep out the nationalists”[…]
Grumpy Elder and I worked on a project together last spring regarding Ted and Heidi Cruz entitled, “Ted Cruz Needs To Answer Questions About Heidi Cruz and the North American Union.” In addition, Maggie Villines of Maggie’s Notebook wrote of her findings on the globalist couple last fall entitled, “Ted Cruz Remarks on Heidi Cruz and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)” and as she stated, “Ted Cruz has a solid record of conservatism, but his wife Heidi worked for the hated Goldman Sachs, resigning when her husband declared for the Oval Office. Mrs. Cruz was at one time, a member of the liberal, hated Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Freedom Outpost had an informative post and video in March 2015 on the Cruz’s and the CFR….”
Let the establishment even Ted Cruz scream as loud as they want Mrs. Cruz out of this but it’s not going to happen. Heidi Cruz is no shrinking violet and even if she were, her connections as well as that of her husband deserve to be legitimately held up for scrutiny and vetted.
While I am aware that Heidi Nelson Cruz apparently does suffer from deep depression, just after Hillary Rodham Clinton, she is the next person to be feared the most in this presidential race for 2016. Yes, I believe in common decency, but I also stand for the dignity of women, which means that they must be respected and treated equally even if it requires the truth.
In an article written by Jesse Byrnes for The Hill that was released today on March 25, 2016, under the title “Trump aide fulfills threat to ‘spill the beans’ on Heidi Cruz,” he reports on the recent interview on MSNBC that Steve Kornacki had with Katrina Pierson who is an aide for Donald Trump. See video below.
According to Katrina Pierson, “Spilling the beans is quite simple when it comes to Heidi Cruz. She is a [George W.] Bush operative; she worked for the architect of NAFTA, which has killed millions of jobs in this country; she was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations who—in Sen. Cruz’s own words, called – a nest of snakes that seeks to undermine national sovereignty; and she’s been working for Goldman Sachs, the same global bank that Ted Cruz left off of his financial disclosure. Heidi’s entire career has been spent working against everything Ted Cruz says that he stands for.”
According to the Council on Foreign Relations when Heidi Cruz was on the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on the Future of North America in 2004, she served at the White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council as Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, then U.S. Trade Representative. Previously, Heidi Cruz had been employed with J.P. Morgan at New York.
Heidi Cruz had contributed to the writing of Building a North American Community, which was published by the Council on Foreign Relations and released in May of 2005. Its goals were the following:
Everybody, how do we spell establishment? Heidi, globalist (and closet Progressive?) and Ted Cruz, who I suspect is more globalist than not and who I continue to have my doubts about. It is as simple as that.
It appears that news surrounding presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx) has knocked the mainstream media off its footing. The Progressive establishment, I gather from the White House down are spinning from an article by Mark Halperin, BloombergPolitics, that four super PACs backing Cruz intending to operate under the name “Keep the Promise,” “Keep the Promise I,” “Keep the Promise II,” and “Keep the Promise III” are expected to rake in more than $31 million this week, i.e., in the bank by Friday.
Even in the context of a presidential campaign cycle in which the major party nominees are expected to raise more than $1.5 billion, Cruz’s haul is eye-popping, one that instantly raises the stakes in the Republican fundraising contest….
His political team has calculated from the start of their planning for a presidential campaign that his overall operation would be able to keep pace with rivals in part because of a robust super-PAC operation. They have talked among themselves about the names of numerous wealthy Cruz backers who they fully expect will contribute several million dollars each….
In other words, how could a candidate whose supporters have been ordained by the establishment as “stupid American voters” garner this financial support.
Clearly, such revelations are not only sticking in the craw of the Progressive establishment but one heck of a bitter pill for the Progressive Republican establishment who despises the Senator with every fiber of their being to swallow.
But wait, there is more…
As a grassroots donor to the Senate Conservative Fund and possible Cruz supporter in 2016 myself, I am attempting to come to grips with my own concerns about Ted Cruz.
In other words, regardless of how fondly one feels of a particular candidate, it is one’s duty to face the facts when presented and ask the hard questions.
While I feel strongly about keeping one’s family out of the mix, I admit that the Senator’s wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, her connections and how they would influence a President Ted Cruz concern me.
Cruz curriculum vitae is touted in the report as follows:
HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
In the 2005 report” Cruz, states the following:
I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us—truly the measure of our success. As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.
Heidi S. Cruz. Pg. 55-56, Section entitled, “Additional and Dissenting Views”
One World Government, New World Order, Illegal Immigration, Common Core…
Expand temporary migrant worker programs. Canada and the United States should expand programs for temporary labor migration from Mexico. ( U.S. retirees living in Mexico should be granted working permits in certain fields, for instance as English teachers.)
Implement the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico.
Create a ‘‘North American preference.’’ Canada, the United States, and Mexico should agree on streamlined immigration and labor mobility rules that enable citizens of all three countries to work elsewhere in North America
Move to full labor mobility between Canada and the United States. In the long term, the two countries should work to extend this policy to Mexico as well, though doing so will not be practical until wage differentials between Mexico and its two North American neighbors have diminished considerably.
Mutual recognition of professional standards and degrees.
Create a major scholarship fund for undergraduate and graduate students to study in the other North American countries. The European Union (EU) provides substantial funding for EU centers in fifteen universities in the United States, as Develop teacher exchange and training programs for elementary and secondary school teachers.
Develop ‘‘sister school’’ and student exchange programs.
Encourage imaginative ways to build North American connections.
We encourage foundations and research institutes to provide support and research for addressing continental issues and developing curricula that would permit citizens of our three countries to look at each other in different ways than in the past.
So, we need a Common Core Curriculum for North America. We need to take the first steps toward merging our Social Security Retirement System with the systems in place in Mexico and Canada.…
In October 2011, Senator Ted Cruz while attending an event was asked about the CFR. His response was that the CFR “is part of a ‘pernicious nest of snakes’ ‘working to undermine our sovereignty.’”
For the record, Heidi Cruz’s term with the CFR ended in June 2011.
In addition, Heidi Cruz heads the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co.. It gets no more establishment than that.
Pursuant to an article by Buzzfeed, in 2004, Heidi Cruz, walked away from the position of director of Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council, reporting directly to Condoleezza Rice to join her husband in Texas.
It was quite a transition as she accepted a position with Goldman Sachs as vice president in their Houston office.
Heidi Cruz was the only woman at Goldman’s Houston location as she struggled and persevered working her way through an environment very much unlike the environment of financial institutional in New York City and Washington, D.C. and she deserves credit for eventually having punctured her way through Houston’s “finance boys clubs.”
She began taking her husband — the accomplished attorney with Supreme Court war stories to spare — to dinners with male clients and colleagues. ‘He’s very useful to me and interesting to clients, so it always helps me to bring in more business when I bring him along,’ she would tell an audience of Claremont’s aspiring female financiers in 2011. She added, with a laugh, ‘I always kind of get him to help make the ask, and I always kind of go follow up. So, if you can marry somebody that is complementary to your business, it’s great networking…..’
The Cruz’s clearly are a great team.
The intent of this post is not to lambast Ted Cruz but to question how Heidi Nelson Cruz, her connections, the Senator’s billionaire hedge fund backers would influence a President Ted Cruz in the White House vs. the interest of those Cruz is elected to serve, should that come to pass.
These are concerns that the Senator from Texas must address.
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