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Heidi Nelson Cruz's San Luis Obispo roots shaped her career, marriage to Tea Party darling
The Tribune News ^ | November 16, 2013 | PATRICK S. PEMBERTON

Posted on 06/17/2015 10:08:38 AM PDT by Hostage

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.”

Those words might have bothered some, Heidi Cruz said, but not her husband.

“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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; cruz; election2016; heidicruz; heidinelson; heidinelsoncruz; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; sanluisobispo; tedcruz; texas
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From Nov 2013 but very good background on Heidi.

Lots of anti-Cruz posters are shrieking that Heidi is in league with the New World Order, the Bilderbergs and the Anti-Christ.

Conspiracy anyone?

1 posted on 06/17/2015 10:08:38 AM PDT by Hostage
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but, she worked at Goldmann Sachs! Oh no!!!!!!!


2 posted on 06/17/2015 10:09:15 AM PDT by TNMOUTH
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To: TNMOUTH; 2ndDivisionVet

She’s EVIL!!!!!!!!

E-V-I-L !!!!

She’s the alpha for Her Hillary! I’m telling you!

/S


3 posted on 06/17/2015 10:10:36 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

4 posted on 06/17/2015 10:12:20 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Lots of anti-Cruz posters are shrieking that Heidi is in league with the New World Order, the Bilderbergs and the Anti-Christ.

Those would be the mind-numbed Paul-bots!
5 posted on 06/17/2015 10:12:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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I heard she is a freemason :) and something about child sacrifices.


6 posted on 06/17/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by dp0622
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Uh oh... she has been outted...

“At age 12.... She and her brother had a running bread business out at Gopher Glen Apple Farm for six or eight years when they were growing up,”

This isn’t good. Did she have a license? Were the ovens used located in a separate facility from their house? Was the facility inspected on a regular basis?

This is serious and cause for the msm to pour over her past and dig up all the illegal dirt on this illicit operation. </s>


7 posted on 06/17/2015 10:15:15 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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I heard that she has forced dogs and cats to live together.


8 posted on 06/17/2015 10:20:05 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

she’s just crazy enough to do it!


9 posted on 06/17/2015 10:23:46 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: SoConPubbie
Just sayin'....most of us who have questions about Ted Cruz with regard to the trade vote and H1B Visas haven't given up on him or committed to another candidate. My feeling with Trump being in it is that it'll shake things up, and the strongest conservative candidate, hopefully someone who can save the US, will be the one who withstands scrutiny.

FWIW, countering questions from serious constitutional conservatives, many who gave to jump-start Cruz's campaign, with sarcasm doesn't it help.

10 posted on 06/17/2015 10:24:56 AM PDT by grania
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It is interesting that his wife’s employer and their work on Trade issues is cited by some as a possible special interest motivator. Jeff Sessions in his May 22 announcement cites Nucor Steel executives as a source of his concern and they have four plants in Alabama but we hear nothing about him being influence by Big Steel interests.

How about Cruz likes Free Trade a little more than stopping the process cold and Sessions wants to stop it cold because Obama is refusing to be transparent just as they both state.


11 posted on 06/17/2015 10:28:12 AM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: Army Air Corps

She never donated any of her bread to the homeless.


12 posted on 06/17/2015 10:29:27 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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You know she’s a Goldman Sachs, CFR, NWO, Illuminati, Antisemitic, Zionist, Bilderberg, (Fill in the blanks) plant don’t you? ;-)


13 posted on 06/17/2015 10:31:23 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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I’ll bet that she also gave muffin stumps to the poor.


14 posted on 06/17/2015 10:31:28 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Hostage; Norm Lenhart; SoConPubbie; 2ndDivisionVet; cripplecreek; GraceG; Mr. K
Heidi Cruz is a 33rd Degree Freemason who does the dirty work for the Trilateral Commission!!1!!
15 posted on 06/17/2015 10:31:50 AM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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The brown dog barks at 1200 hours


16 posted on 06/17/2015 10:33:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: KC_Lion

I also heard that she supports a militant splinter faction of Up With People.


17 posted on 06/17/2015 10:33:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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I am looking forward to her time as first lady. I think she will bring a touch of conservative class to the White house.


18 posted on 06/17/2015 10:35:12 AM PDT by exnavy (socialism and communism are indistinguishable.)
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Can women even be freemasons?


19 posted on 06/17/2015 10:35:48 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: grania
FWIW, countering questions from serious constitutional conservatives, many who gave to jump-start Cruz's campaign, with sarcasm doesn't it help.

Sorry Grania, but if this issue concerning Heidi Cruz's former employer is in your list of "questions from serious constitutional conservatives" you're wearing a tin-foil hat.
20 posted on 06/17/2015 10:39:03 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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