Posted on 04/17/2015 8:53:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who is running for president, plans to meet with the head of a national Latino organization who accused the lawmaker of distancing himself from his ethnic community.
Cruz is scheduled to meet on April 29 with Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and hold a question-and-answer session in Washington D.C. before an audience of business leaders and journalists.
“The Hispanic Chamber is an important constituency,” said Rick Tyler, the national spokesman for the Cruz campaign. “We’re going to have a conversation, the host and the senator. They will talk about jobs, economic growth, national security,” and other “top issues on their agenda, and the interests of the [chamber’s] members.”
Palomarez, whose organization boasts relationships with lawmakers from both major political parties, said that the Cruz camp reached out to the chamber after news of his pointed criticism of the senator.
“Several entities within Ted Cruz’s [camp] reached out to us, they said they wanted to work with us,” said Palomarez. “We proposed a public platform.”
“It was not combative,” he noted. “They were pleasant and easy to work with.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
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Ted Cruz is the man!
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Daniel in the lion’s den...
“address Latino issues in Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Q&A event.” Can you see what is wrong with that headline?
For one, it’s like they’re trying to act like he’s not himself Hispanic, just like Sarah Palin isn’t truly a woman and people like Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain aren’t truly black.
Yes I do. But I can live with it.
However Cruz is still a little light in experience. Still a very junior freshman Senator. And still an Ivy League trained lawyer.
Sound familiar?
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Don’t worry about the headline, Americans are used to inane headlines. Watch the event, and see what is right.
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Ted Cruz IS the man.
Cruz or lose.
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Cruz is heavy in the right experience.
Legislative experience is always counter productive to a proper presidency. Reagan showed that in spades.
His law experience is what has allowed him to demolish every reporter’s attempts to harm his candidacy.
Cruz is our only candidate. The rest are shills for the opposition.
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Yes. I would pick this honorable man above the feckless fool on the hill in a heartbeat. Cruz is a patriot, not a worthless community agitator, as is the worthless feckless one. I sense a slight proclivity for the left from your post.
Comparing Cruz to obama? Ha!
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Ditto that.
Did Mr. Obama run a division of the Federal Trade Commission before his time in the Senate? Was he the Solicitor General for a large, populous state with thousands of employees and many Supreme Court victories prior to his Senate term? Was he an Assistant Secretary at the Justice Department? Was he a partner at several major law firms with many people reporting to him and a stellar record? Was he an advisor to a presidential candidate/president-elect/president before being elected Senator? I could go on and on...
This is probably going to be the most honest, incisive and illuminating head-to-head we’ve seen Cruz take on.
Cruz is going to capture the wheat of their ‘base’ and leave them with the chaff, they just don’t know it yet.
That is a wonderful resume’. IF he was running for the Supreme Court.
There is still zip, zero, nada executive experience.
Spin it as you will, but he still only has less than three years in elected office.
Reagan showed that in spades.
A two term Governor of a large state. That helped.
Not meaning to argue but Sarah hyped her girl power like a shield maiden
I wouldn’t care if he mentioned more than once his father is Hispanic (is that really a word?) It is not pandering. It is the truth and we NEED to win. And he is not for deporting them. He is just not for citizenship. He’s smart enough to make a case. “your father, mother, brother can stay but just cant vote. Their offspring can.” We can worry about the offspring in 20 years. I think that generation will be quite conservative. I’m against illegal immigration, and my experience with Mexicans in my cab when I used to drive is they are great tippers, hard workers, harder drinkers, and don’t really have feeling towards this country, good or bad. It’s just a place to make money to send home or to raise a family. The churches in their areas are packed with them. I KNOW they don’t go for the whole gay thing. Some of them were on the run from the cartels. I’m NOT sticking up for them but some of my Italian ancestors felt the same way. Some Italian families came and went back three times before realizing the better life was here. The difference is Italian immigrants were vetted and legal.
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>> “Spin it as you will, but he still only has less than three years in elected office.” <<
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Making him very likely the best Presidential candidate of all time.
(Keep kissing Obama’s ass)
He’s already doing that with Evangelicals, Charismatics, traditional Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Jews, the Tea Party, social conservatives, business people, sane libertarians, the liberty movement, fiscal conservatives, defense-oriented conservatives, some of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the energy industry, NRA members and other such people, farmers & ranchers, homeschoolers, legal immigrants, space enthusiast and people sick of the global warming hoax.
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