Yep, Cruz grew up in an UPPER Middle Class family whose parents frequented the Hamptons. Upon his arrival in HS, Cruz was already wearing Gucci clothes. He met his wife Heidi, the head cheer leader, whose parents, NWO types of course, were proud 1%er’s.
In College, where he was accepted because of the silver spoon he had in his mouth, he was on the debate team where, since he was probably so wealthy he bought off his competitors, he was the top performer.
Later in life, Cruz again, whose bio is LESS THAN STELLAR, (oh, did I mention his wife worked for Goldman Sachs?) bought his way as the Solicitor General and then to his Senate Seat.
All the while, his father, who never lived the American dream, sipped mai tais on the porch.
Naps, does this bio suffice for Cruz?
Seriously, are you not aware of Cruz’s EXCEPTIONAL bio or are you biased? Cruz can match Ben punch for punch...including the part where his father fled to this country after being tortured by Castro. But, you’re right...nobody has the bio of Carson.
I am also a Houstonian, I know where Cruz grew up.
If you think that the man that Professor Dershowitz considers possibly his smartest student ever, got into Harvard law and Princeton because his parents were upper middle class, then you are an idiot.
“After being imprisoned and tortured by the Batista regime, the elder Rafael Cruz came to America on a student visa with nothing but $100 sewn into his underwear. He made his way through the University of Texas by washing dishes.
Eleanor Darragh, Cruz’s mother, was a working-class Delaware native who studied math at Rice University. Cruz once told a tea party group that his mother refused to learn how to type, so that when men asked her to type things up for her she could say, “I would love to help you out, but I don’t know how to type. I guess you’re going to have to use me as a computer programmer instead.”
Cruz was raised in Houston (all he remembers about Canada: “It was cold.”) In high school he was part of a group sponsored by the Free Enterprise Institute that learned the Constitution by heart and traveled the state giving speeches on conservative ideas.
At Princeton he was a champion debater. From there he went to Harvard Law School. “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant,” Prof. Alan Dershowitz told the National Review. Cruz was a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.
After law school, Cruz clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. In 1996, he became Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s first Hispanic clerk.”
Here is more to show your idiocy about Cruz’s parents as the wealthy elites, the dad is now a Southern Baptist Minister.
“He had little more than $100 to his name, and he could barely speak English. But, by working seven days a week, he was able to graduate in 1961. In the early 1960s, Rafael Cruz was also beginning to start a family. He married and had two daughters, and he started to work in the energy industry. But the marriage ended after only a few years, and Cruz found himself at a difficult crossroads in his late twenties. (One of his daughters is now a physician in Texas; the other is deceased.) Cruz decided to move to New Orleans to take a new job, which is where he met his second wife, Eleanor Darragh, a computer programmer from Delaware, who was also working for an oil company.
They married, moved to Calgary, Alberta, and in late 1970 had their first and only child, Rafael Edward Cruz. They weren’t in Canada long, choosing to move to Houston, where they continued to work for oil companies.
Back in Texas, he became a permanent legal resident, and it wasn’t until 2005 that he formally became a U.S. citizen. “Oh, I know I should have done it sooner,” he says. “I love this country so much, but you cannot change the past.” It was also back in Texas, in 1975, when his life changed. After attending a Bible-study meeting with a colleague, he became a born-again Christian, leaving his days as a non-practicing Roman Catholic behind. “The people at the Bible study had a peace that I could not understand, this peace in the midst of trouble,” Cruz says. “I knew I needed to find that peace by finding Jesus Christ.” His son and wife followed him, becoming born-again Christians as well.
Around the dinner table, the talk was almost always about the Bible or the latest happenings in the Reagan administration.
His faith, he says, also saved him from becoming bitter and depressed when the oil industry sagged in the mid 1980s and his professional life hit a low point. “There was a big crash and many of my clients went bankrupt,” he says. “It got so bad that I had to close my business. I became a salesman here and there, and I started to build a ministry, as a sort of traveling preacher.”