Looky here - Teddy:
“The Dallas Morning News, “Ted Cruz adds Katrina Pierson to his expanding list of the ‘utterly fearless,’” January 13, 2014”
“When Pierson herself ran for Congress in 2014, Cruz showed his support for her, saying, “Katrina Pierson is an utterly fearless principled conservative.” “
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-katrina-pierson-216005
“....When she mounted a primary challenge to Texas Rep. Pete Sessions last year, it came out that she had received federal unemployment benefits while assisting Cruz’s run. A 1997 arrest for shoplifting also surfaced. Pierson, who was 20 at the time of the arrest, fit it into a narrative of pulling herself up by her bootstraps.
Born to a 15-year-old mother, Pierson grew up on welfare and gave birth to a child of her own at a young age, raising him as a single mother after her short-lived marriage to the boy’s father ended in divorce. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2006 and voted for Barack Obama in 2008. But, beginning with Obama’s refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel, Pierson began to take issue with him and threw herself instead into Texas tea party activities, which led her to Cruz’s campaign and her own challenge to Sessions.
The appeal of that life story proved insufficient to knock off Sessions, who cruised to an easy victory in March 2014.
A Sessions campaign aide described Cruz’s support for Pierson in the primary as “half-assed.” While Cruz’s father, Rafael, endorsed Pierson, the senator stopped short of doing so, though he did offer praise. Pierson said she did not seek Cruz’s endorsement. “Rafael was good enough,” she said. “I love him. He is the same as Ted to me.”......
Not endorsement.