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JOHN ROBERTS RECOUNT AID IN 2000 WAS EXTENSIVE
Miami Herald, The (FL) - July 27, 2005
Author/Byline: MARC CAPUTO, mcaputo@herald.com
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts played a broader behind the scenes role for the Republican camp in the aftermath of the 2000 election than previously reported - as legal consultant, lawsuit editor and prep coach for arguments before the nation’s highest court, according to the man who drafted him for the job.
Ted Cruz, a Bush domestic policy advisor who is now Texas’ solicitor general, said Roberts was one of the first names he thought of while he and another attorney drafted the Republican legal dream team of litigation ‘lions’ and ‘ 800-pound gorillas,’ which ultimately consisted of 400 attorneys in Florida. Until now, Gov. Jeb Bush and others involved in the election dispute could recall almost nothing of Roberts role, except for a half hour meeting the governor had with Roberts sometime after the election.
Cruz said Roberts was in Tallahassee helping the Bush camp for ‘a week to 10 days,’ and that his help was important, though Cruz said it was difficult to remember specifics five years after the frenetic, sleep-depriving pace of the 2000 recount.
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But one thing was certain, Cruz told The Herald: ‘There was no one better for the job.’ “ He is one of the best brief writers in the country. Just like a good journalist or a novelist, he can write with clarity, concisely and can paint a picture with words, “ said Cruz.
Roberts, a constitutional law expert with a top Washington law firm at the time, is now a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C. Roberts was a no-brainer for the recount effort: His 25 - 14 win loss record at the U.S. Supreme Court was one of the most impressive.
And, like Cruz, he was a member of a tight-knit circle of former clerks for the court’s chief justice, William Rehnquist - a group jokingly referred to as “the cabal.”
Soon after getting the call from Cruz, Roberts traveled to Tallahassee from the Washington offices of Hogan & Hartson to lend advice and help polish legal briefs. Later, Roberts helped participate in a dress rehearsal to prepare the Bush legal team for its appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cruz’s account is the first to place Roberts firmly within the George Bush vs. Al Gore battle, filling in substantial blanks in the memories of everyone from Bush’s campaign lawyer, Ben Ginsberg, to the governor. In state politics, his star is rising - Immigrant dad taught solicitor general value of America’s system
Austin American-Statesman (TX) , January 15, 2006
Author/Byline: Mark Lisheron, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
The route back to Texas
It was the Chief (Rehnquist) who helped steer Cruz to (Chuck) Cooper in 1997 when he was starting his own law firm in Washington, one that would take on the federal government on behalf of private clients and states.
I. While working for Cooper, Cruz began collecting political donations for George W. Bushs first presidential run. At a Bush fundraiser in 1999, he met Bush aide Joshua Bolten. “He asked me what this campaign needed a lawyer for, and I started listing all of these policy concerns,” Cruz said. “The next thing I know, he asked me to join the campaign.”
The campaign needed him particularly after Democrats challenged the results of the 2000 vote in Florida. Bush asked Cruz to help assemble and direct strategy for a team of lawyers who made the case that Bush’s win was legitimate. The Bush administration rewarded Cruz, naming him an associate deputy attorney general and later director of the Office of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission.
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Is Ted Cruz planned to become the 1st President of a North American Union?
According to the Times, Cruz met Heidi Nelson while they were both working as political advisers on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000. They married in May 2001. Heidi Cruz worked in Bush’s White House after he was elected, working as director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council from 2003 to 2004, before joining Goldman Sachs in 2005.
http://www.houston.org/about/board-staff.html#board/212727
Heidi S. Cruz is the Region Head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She leads 40 professionals responsible for over $14 billion in investments for clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Colorado. In the 1990s, Heidi worked as an investment banker in New York, focusing on Latin America mergers and acquisitions and structured finance. In that capacity, Heidi was involved in advisory engagements and capital markets transactions for some of the largest energy companies in the Americas.
In the public sector, Heidi served in the White House as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department; and as Special Policy Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, then U.S. Trade Representative. Her publications include a book chapter entitled “Expanding Opportunity Through Free Trade,” a book chapter in EXCHANGE RATE POLICIES FOR EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES, and a Harvard Case Study, “American International Group”. Heidi received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a Masters of European Business from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.
She is currently a member of the Texas Business Leadership Council and serves on the board of the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts European Art Sub-Committee, the Advancement Board of the Yes Prep Public Schools of Houston, the Advisory Board of Living Water International, and on the Advisory Board of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College in California. She lives in Houston with her husband and her two daughters, Caroline Camille and Catherine Christiane.
http://www.lewislevin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Claremont-McKenna-College-.pdf
Heidi Nelson Cruz ‘94 , former Bush Administration official, economic director for the western hemisphere.
Ms. Cruz served as the Director of the Office of Latin America and the Caribbean and Senior Advisor to Treasury Undersecretary John B. Taylor at the United States Treasury Department. From February 2001 to September 2002, Ms. Cruz served as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative. She is currently a vice president at Goldman Sachs.
Task Force Urges Measures to Strengthen North American Competitiveness, Expand Trade, Ensure Border Security
May 17, 2005 Council on Foreign Relations Ms. Heidi S. Cruz Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed atbuilding a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic pros-perity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats areno doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable 33
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34 Building a North American Community role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economicinvestment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is noforce proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital,and producing results like financial markets and profit-making busi-nesses. 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
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Heidi S. Cruz* is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch inHouston, 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.
I’m not sure what the point of this post is, but I’ll be forever grateful to those who worked through the fall of 2000 to keep Al Gore out of the White House.
You have to wonder what caused him to throw that resume to the wind to contrive a convoluted opinion handing Obama control of our healthcare system and economy.
Trump wrote a book in 2010 espousing nearly the EXACT tough immigration proposals he advocates now, with the addition of strict H1-B restrictions.
Meanwhile just 3 years ago Cruz was endorsing an INCREASE in legal immigration from the insane 1 million/year Ted Kennedy-selected Third Worlders. Cruz also supported legal status for 40 millions illegals, and a staggering 500% increase in H1-B visas to screw American workers.
His uber-establishment wife Heidi co-authored a Council on Foreign Relations plan for a “North American Union”, with the Amero replacing the dollar as our new currency. We’ve all heard about this. But Heidi Cruz WROTE IT!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3372718/posts?page=111#111