Posted on 08/25/2015 11:15:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bexar County Republicans who support U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for president turned out in force Tuesday to hear his wife, Heidi, plead for financial support in a race she described as winnable.
The crowd of more than 200 loyalists at Bexar GOP headquarters was already on the Cruz bandwagon in terms of policy. They applauded Heidi Cruz’s denunciations of President Barack Obama’s executive orders, the Affordable Care Act he championed, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, the Iran nuclear deal, gay marriage and Planned Parenthood.
So the candidate’s wife — whose professional financial savvy has made her an integral part of the Cruz campaign — made sure to remind the crowd that the juggernaut runs on money.
“We need to do two things: We need to build a grass-roots army across this country, and we need to raise money so that Ted can succeed,” she said. “We need to provide him just enough fuel to keep going.”
Heidi Cruz acknowledged some of the challenges in competing against 16 other GOP presidential candidates, including low participation among evangelical voters.
“We need to bring those voters out. Ted Cruz can do that,” she said, calling him “a consistent conservative, not a campaign conservative.”
That line echoed statements from the Cruz campaign that assailed the conservative credentials of other GOP contenders including Donald Trump.
Heidi Cruz said the Cruz campaign is staying competitive in fundraising compared with Jeb Bush and Clinton. A quarter-million donors gave an average of $81, she said.
Cruz is counting on continued support from some of his earliest political backers — Bexar County Republicans.
“This country is going to be grateful to you,” she assured them.
The gathering included members of a group called South Texas Grassroots Volunteers Cruz16, from Bexar and several nearby counties.
Heidi Cruz, 43, a native of San Luis Obispo, California, met her husband in Austin in 2000, when she served as an economic policy adviser and he as a domestic policy adviser in the first presidential campaign of then-Gov. George W. Bush. They married in 2001 and live with their two children in Houston.
Heidi Cruz, who’s on leave from her job as managing director at Goldman Sachs in Houston, has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before joining the business world, she served in several government policy roles, at the National Security Council, the Treasury Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
“Heidi Cruz, 43, a native of San Luis Obispo, California, met her husband in Austin in 2000...”
With a name like Heidi Cruz, I would have suspected she was from New Braunfels, Texas.
Born in San Luis Obispo, California to parents who were Seventh-day adventist missionaries, she spent part of her childhood in Africa, according to the New York Times.
Heidi Cruz’s father is a dentist with a practice in her hometown and her mother was a former dental hygienist, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune. She traveled with her parents to third-world countries to provide dental care as part of the missionary work.
Heidi Cruz’s work ethic started at a young age, according to the Tribune article. Her parents set-up a bread-making business for her and her brother, Scott Nelson, when they were young. She told the Tribune:
I think it definitely taught us the value of hard work. We were used to being highly productive at all times. We got kind of competitive with each other. We probably made 200 loaves a week.
Maybe she got married. ..
Heidi Cruz. She’s on a leave of absence from Goldman Sachs. Why doesn’t she just ask her employer or the Trail Lawyers who support her husband for the $$$$?
Which Trial Lawyers would that be?
When a liberal democrat or a GOPe is looking for funding, they are raising financial support, but conservative Cruz is PLEADING for financial support like a meandering beggar.
With a name like Heidi Cruz, she probably not only can visit the county next to New Braunfels, she probably can even pronounce it properly.
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