Posted on 01/14/2015 10:54:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Internet is utterly scandalized.
With a burgeoning primary comes Freedom of Information Act requests, and three reporters at Buzzfeed (three reporters), were apparently tasked with using FOIA to reveal the horrors of Ted Cruz's adolescent years. Pursuant to that mission, they came into possession of Cruz's 2003 application to be Solicitor General of Texas.
In a shocking revelation from the documents that surprises absolutely no one who spent any fraction of their late teens in the company of other people in their late teens, it turns out Ted Cruz was once ticketed for possessing alcohol as a minor, after a 1987 police stop that revealed an unopened case of cheap beer in his trunk. The Presidential contender then pled guilty to the misdemeanor. And then, decades later, an Internet news organization is utterly scandalized.
In an application for the position, accessed via a Texas Public Information request, Cruz listed among his references Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist whom he clerked for. The application also reveals Cruz’s past salaries as an attorney, his recent legal record, speeches, professional associations, and a 1987 guilty plea for possession of alcohol as a minor.
An aide to Sen.Cruz said he was a senior in high school and got pulled over and they found an unopened case of beer and he received a ticket.
“Teenagers often make foolish mistakes, and that certainly applied to me as well,” Cruz said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed News.
Let's be clear. Cruz was not arrested then, or now, for public intoxication. He was charged with a crime, pled guilty and, one can assume since no bench warrant was issued for non-payment, that he both attended his day in court and paid the ticket in full.....
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Well there goes his political career...
In fact the "press" attacks everyone who even dares try.
Only a *racist* wants to find out what grades Obama got in college, or who HE listed as a "reference".
Naw, my bible school son had a MIP. The millennials will warm to him.
What a terrible thing for Ted Cruz to admit being a member of the Choom Gang and associate with communists and deviants...oh, wait!
To the left this disqualifies him. Now if he had drank the beer and gotten drunk with a girl in the car then ran off a bridge then swam to shore and left her to drown, that would be no problem.
Was this before or after he traveled to Pakistan with his gay Pakistani roommate? Perhaps his transgender, cross-dressing nanny put the case of beer in his car?
Even the leftist posters at Buzzfeed (with one exception, some stoner trying to make a point) are all shouting “So What?” and BFD!!
Looks like I’ll be voting for Hillary.
No way I could support Cruz after this revelation. I draw the line at smoking weed, and snorting coke.
well that’s it, he might as well pull out of the race- He’s finished, all washed up- in order for a republican to run for office, they have to be mother Theresa - but if a dem runs, the more corrupt the better apparently
isn’t Ted Cruz Hispanic? If so he should immediately start whining loudly that the press is being racist
[[To the left this disqualifies him. Now if he had drank the beer and gotten drunk with a girl in the car then ran off a bridge then swam to shore and left her to drown, that would be no problem.]]
He should state “At least I didn’t drive off a bridge in Martha’s vineyard- and I wasn’t drunk- there’s no crime in transporting alcohol
Now that Cruz is of age, he should ask to get his beer back.
This news disgusts me...
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Well, dang. That sounds bad. A High School Senior with unopened beer? That Cruz guy just doesn’t know how to do things properly.
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So what? Hillary Clinton was once falsely accused of being human.
I’m sorry, but an unopened case of beer is a serious offense.
Just sitting there, not being used! That’s not right!
I can’t vote for anyone who drinks cheap beer! It’s over!
There goes his Evangelical voters!!
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