Cruz Names Kaye T. Goolsby as National Grassroots Chair

HOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R- Texas, today named Kaye T. Goolsby the National Grassroots Chair of Cruz for President. Sen. Cruz and Goolsby have had a long-standing relationship and Kaye has been an instrumental player in Sen. Cruz’s political success to-date.

During the 2012 U.S. Senate race, she served as the Statewide Grassroots Chairman for Sen. Cruz. In that capacity, she helped take the Senator from 2% in the polls, to the Republican primary runoff election, to a primary victory, and then on to an overwhelming general election victory.

“I am honored that Kaye has agreed to serve as my campaign’s National Grassroots Chair. I have had the privilege of knowing Kaye for over decade. In addition to her 30 years of experience, expertise, and unrivaled grassroots network, no one works harder than Kaye or is more passionately committed to our mission of reigniting the promise of America.”

Kaye has served on many statewide leadership teams over the years, is a former officer of the Texas Federation of Republican Women, and has served on the National Federal of Republican Women’s Board of Directors for many years. She has served nearly 100 campaigns both in Texas and across the country, predominantly serving on leadership teams.

“The reason I support Ted Cruz is that he continues to stand up for our principles and always tells the truth which shows his character and faith,” said Goolsby. “I believe he is the only person that can lead this country.”

Kaye is a founding member of Katy Christian Ministries which provides social and financial services for families in crisis, particularly victims of domestic and sexual violence. Kaye T. Goolsby and her husband Gary, a prominent businessman, reside in Katy, Texas.

Here is something from the grassroots (me, on FR, since 1998). Comments on Cruz and Heidi and her troubling background that Cruz never addressed. Along with his infamous H1-B proposal I believe that these issues seriously eroded his support on the populist right, which should have been his foundation. If she is really the “grassroots” leader, she should address this, if she can:

Ted Cruz is not an outsider. He is connected to the government and the Wall Street elites.

So?

Why would I want someone without some experience, or some connection to our Capitalistic society, which Wall-Street is a part of?
74 posted on 5/15/2015, 3:51:47 PM by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They’re the same poison, just a different potency)
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Why would I want someone without some experience, or some connection to our Capitalistic society, which Wall-Street is a part of?
I would not want someone without some experience.

That, to me, ideally would mean both some reasonable high level government experience and some business experience. Mitt Romney was ideal, from that point of view, but that didn’t work out very well (either in terms of his positions, which were pretty liberal, or in terms of his campaign, which was lackluster, or in terms of the result, which was Obama’s second term)

So, experience isn’t the only qualification, or a guarantee of a good candidate, but still it’s important to most voters, including GOP primary voters.

Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson lack any political experience so I will not be voting for them. I will give Fiorina some credit for at least running on the GOP ticket for Gov. in the most liberal state in the USA.

Carson is deluded, just like all the other no elected experience vanity candidates before him: Trump, Perot, Buchanan, the Godfather’s Pizza CEO, Alan Keys, etc.

Cruz meets the minimum experience standard, and that make him a credible and viable candidate. He has more experience than Obama did, and as much as Rubio and Paul, two other candidates near the top. He’s past the threashold to be taken seriously by American voters.

He has very limited business experience himself. His wife’s career could be a plus then, sort of balancing out a weak part of his resume. But they rub is it’s with Wall Street.

For myself, and many other potential supporters, I think Wall Street connections are a particular valid concern.

On a purely pragmatic level we know that a full frontal attack on Wall Street privileges and practices, is a very likely attack from the Democratic candidate.

Regardless of whether you personally feel there is any merit in them, we know they are a powerful line of attack. Romney’s run was destroyed in large part by painting him as a “vulture capitalist”, a “huge fund multi-millionaire” and someone doing shady deals in foriegn jusidictions to avoid taxes. Again, maybe you feel these characterizations were unfair, but Romney was not able to counter them, and the played a huge part in his loss.

Many of us are anxious not to make the same mistake again, and nominate a candidate whose background can be easily demonized. Whether or not Cruz’s wife’s occupation would provide enough fodder for that is a reasonable subject of debate, in my opinion.

For others of us the association with Goldman-Sachs and Merrill Lynch is in itself troubling. Goldman, in particular has a terrible record of law breaking, including many multi-million and even billion dollar settlements with various regulator bodies for breaking the law. The more you look into these the more egregious they turn out to be. I urge you to do some research, perhaps I will post some links on this at a future date.

The entire spectacle of “too big to fail” banks getting incredible deals from the government, and the special treatment they received stinks to many Americans.

Hopefully, you can recall that the Tea Party movement arose as a huge unscripted outpouring of anger at these bailouts. Not only was Goldman one of the largest recipients of bail out funds, we know they were in the room when the decision was made to bail out AIG, something critical to their survival.

As a result of the economic chaos caused by Goldman and a handful of other large Wall Street firms the American economy was sent into a near-crash. Millions of Americans lost jobs, millions more lost homes, everyone suffered as the economy contracted, and many feel it has not fully recovered.

We’d like a candidate who can pin a lot of this, the failed or underwhelming recovery, on Obama. Someone who was, herself, part of two bailed out firms is probably not a good person to do that. Heidi Cruz makes $600,000 a year plus bonus, a lot of Americans feel that it’s pretty unjustified for Wall Street bankers to earn those types of salary when their continued existence is a gift from taxpayers, whose average annual income is $51,399 dollars.

I understand that you view this as “capitalist system experience”. I’d say running a business successfully is that, I’d say this is a crony-capitalist shakedown, that has often included very unsavory practices (again, google “Goldman-Sachs guilty and read the links, then do the same for Merrill-Lynch, HSBC and Chase.)

I hope you now can at least understand other people’s point of view on this issue.

Have a nice weekend.

"I hope you now can at least understand other people’s point of view on this issue."

Now not being able to figure just what your view Point is other than as you stated; you are anxious, and as I do not see how what you are saying has anything to with my post you are suppose to be commenting on, I can only perceive you have a problem with Heidi and the single issue of Cruz proposing an increase in H1-B, a proposal btw that was not even considered, went nowhere and is by no means an indictment on the character of the man.

I can understand other peoples point of view, I just don't understand yours, your entire comment is convoluted and contorted, I don't know what Romney, Rubio and others you mentioned have to do with what I posted unless you are insinuating that Cruz is the same as they, I am guessing you think Heidi being employed by Goldman Sachs somehow makes her directly responsible for GS getting a government bailout and she is somehow involved in GS breaking the law, and that somehow makes Ted a suspicious candidate, of course it is not unusual for political operatives to attack a candidate using the tactic of guilt by association, the facts don't matter; the accusations are what counts (Alinsky 101), there are always those of weak mind ready and willing to accept false accusation (God Knows all to well where false accusation lead; yet truth prevails).

All these accusations were brought out already during Ted's run for congress, he was pathetically lagging in the Polls and remained the projected loser right up until election day when he won by an overwhelming majority, he had enough money to stay in the race but nowhere near what Texas Lt Gov Dewhurst his so-called conservative opponent had as the favorite in all the Polls, in the last six weeks of the race Dewhurst ran ads spending a million dollars a week trying to diminish Cruz through Heidi's association with GS even insinuating she is a member of CFR (she is not) he could not directly make accusations because he had no evidence, his ads were full of innuendo and speculation to avoid slander, now you may ask why would Dewhurst spend so much money in an effort to attack and subdue Cruz when the Polls were all overwhelmingly in his own favor, because; Dewhurst was well aware of the ground game Cruz was effecting, Dewhurst new the Polls were a very bad measure of success especially the late Polls favoring Dewhurst, even as the Polls are now against Cruz they will be so right up until Cruz wins the primary.

Now I do not pretend to assume Cruz is perfect, there has never been a POTUS who has not on occasion disappointed his supporters, such disappointment by Cruz have been very few and far between, being a natural man he is not immune to lags in judgement but he has not as of yet done anything that would be so gross as to make him ineligible to be POTUS, yes he is not perfect but across the field he is as a conservative the closest to perfection as we are going to get.

Furthermore you stated: Ted Cruz is not an outsider. He is connected to the government and the Wall Street elites.

It is true Cruz is not an outsider, he is in fact one standing and fighting right in the midst of the belly of the beast, most often standing alone sometimes having the support of less a handful of others, as to the being connected to Wall Street elites, please provide evidence as outlined in the paragraph below this one.

If I did not address your point of view adequately please make an effort to be more clear and precise as to what your point of view is, you said you could provide links, maybe they will help to clarify, just insure those links are to legitimate sources, not sites that have a left-wing agenda like HuffPo, Politico, NYPost, Washington Post etc, or conspiracy minded sites like Infowars, WND, EagleForum and the like, be so kind as to insure there is more than just suspicion, I need to see facts and solid evidence, not innuendo, insinuation, presumption, speculation, conjecture or theory (good luck with that).

As for GS and other global banking corporations being as corrupt as they want to be; I agree, but because they exist as such it is a grand stretch to Cruz or his wife being indicted because his wife is an executive there, you tell me just what corporation could she work for as an executive that would be acceptable to you, just one; that has not had charges of corruption laid against them at some point in their existence, yes capitalism has many problems and is susceptible to cronyism, just as our entire Republic is prone to cronyism, corruption and lawlessness but it beats every other system hands down, what other system would you prefer? I would like know.

Oh and please read my comment carefully before responding; pay close attention to the context as I diligently tried to follow your context; what little of it there was that wasn't erratic, barley identifiable.

Like wise you too have a great rest of the weekend.

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