Heidi Nelson Cruz's San Luis Obispo roots shaped her career, marriage to Tea Party darling

Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife grew from baking bread in SLO to breaking bread with the Washington elite

Presidential politics first captured Heidi Nelson Cruz’s attention in the 1980s, when the 12-year-old read a Time magazine piece about the Ronald Reagan-Walter Mondale race while working at her San Luis Obispo bread stand.

She would later become a Capitol Hill intern, a policy aide on the George W. Bush campaign and economic director for the Western Hemisphere with the National Security Council. But while government and politics might have been her calling at one time, nothing in her background could have prepared her for this summer, when her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, helped force a shutdown of the federal government.

“We were blessed to go to good schools and have careers that Ted and I enjoyed,” said Cruz, 41. “But we were in no way well known.”

That all changed, of course, when the newly elected Republican senator from Texas waged a campaign — culminating with a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor — to defund President Barack Obama’s health care program. His ardent stance brought nightly media attention, praise from supporters on the right and harsh criticism from the left.

While he became a darling of the Tea Party — fueling talk of a possible presidential run in 2016 — critics called him “a fraud,” “self-aggrandizing” and “nutty.”

“He has an incredible heart, but he’s not the kind of person that’s trying to do what everybody wants him to do,” she said. “He’s trying to do what he thinks is right, and he has an innate ability to really not worry about things beyond his control.”

The senator’s ability to deflect criticisms — including some from his own party — has affected her own reactions, she said.

> “Proposed and defeated. But good try.”

You’re a liar. You make sh*t up.

I am bookmarking this post so that every time I come across your crap on any thread I am going to link to this post to show readers you have no credibility.

Here’s the link showing Cruz’ S.Amdt 1384 is part of S.Amdt 1221 which was passed 62 to 37 and is part of the TPA:

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/1221/amendments-to-this-amendment

> “Because, after waiting a minimum of 60 days, during which the final TPP is published and discussed, both houses of Congress must vote it up or down by simple majority. And there are more Republicans than Democrats in both the House and the Senate.”

You’re right there are 60 days to review before a simple majority vote can be taken and there are more republicans than democrats.

But that doesn’t answer the question.

The TPP is secret which Senator Cruz says in his town hall Q&As is “STUPID”.

And the TPP is negotiated and now proposed but waiting for TPA so as to avoid Congress from amending it and subjecting it to 60 cloture votes in the Senate.

There are 213 Senate amendments to TPA submitted en bloc as S.Amdt 1221 that are now part of TPA. Many of those 213 amendments may be in conflict with TPP. So either TPP moves forward without TPA in which case it dies or it will need to conform with provisions of TPA.

Now Obama has an army of lawyers who will need to conform TPP with TPA and they will do so. BUT ...

BUT Obama’s lawyers can think up ways to modify TPP while at the same time conforming it to TPA. And what’s to stop the modification from harming American rights and sovereignty?

The question can be cast in a different light:

Are the 213 passed amendments in the TPA ‘complete’ in the sense of preserving American rights and sovereignty?

Are there any weaknesses, gaps, holes that a progressive hard core leftist can find to subvert?

These are the typse of questions for Senator Cruz.

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