Ted Cruz wins GOP presidential straw poll at conservative conference in Denver

MYSA.com ^ | 07/29/2013 | Sarah Ferris

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Fresh off his talking tour of Iowa and the Midwest, Sen. Ted Cruz soaked up the spotlight in Denver this weekend and took the No. 1 spot in one of the straw polls of the 2014 election season.

The junior senator from Texas earned multiple standing ovations at the Western Conservative Summit on Saturday when he called for the end of the embattled Internal Revenue Service and urged lawmakers to defund “Obamacare.”

He revealed a Senate Republican campaign against the Obama administration’s health care overhaul, called “Don’t Fund It,” which he launched with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. Cruz has fiercely opposed “Obamacare” since he entered office seven months ago, and is one of the leading lawmakers trying to block its implementation next year.

The Tea Party duo launched a website that targets Republican senators who have not pledged to oppose 2014 funding – Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Richard Burr of South Carolina, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.

A poll taken during the three-day summit showed the Texas senator far ahead of other potential 2016 candidates. Forty-five percent of attendees chose Cruz, compared to the event’s keynote speaker, Gov. Scott Walker, who came in second place with 13 percent.

During the 2011 summit’s poll before the 2012 election, restaurant executive Herman Cain took the lead.

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee also spoke this weekend in Denver, along with former Rep. Allen West, who closed out the conference.

Cruz has repeatedly denied a presidential bid, even after traveling to Iowa, one of the first states to hold a primary in 2014 with another possible contender, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

“At this point, 100 percent of my focus is on the U.S. Senate. And the reason is simple: The Senate’s the battlefield. The Senate is where these fights are being fought,” Cruz told reporters after the event. “So I’m devoting my time, No. 1, to trying to stand up for free-market principles and the Constitution.”

Cruz, Paul and Lee will also speak at a sold-out event Wednesday hosted by the Young Americans for Liberty organization.

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Title 8 section 1401 lists several conditions where citizenship is granted. Subsection G reads:

a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person
(A) honorably serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, or
(B) employed by the United States Government or an international organization as defined in section 288 of title 22, may be included in order to satisfy the physical-presence requirement of this paragraph. This proviso shall be applicable to persons born on or after December 24, 1952, to the same extent as if it had become effective in its present form on that date; and

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So there is a 5 year residency requirement on the citizen prior to the birth of the child.

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