Posted on 03/24/2016 8:55:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Who is Heidi Cruz. She is one interesting lawyer! Did you know that she sat on a Council on Foreign Relations task force for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? Yes right up until 2011 when Ted announced he was running for the Senate! WHY do you people think our Government won’t secure our border? Do you think it is Incompetence? Ignorance? Is it to destroy the nation? Well a lot can be said about all of those at this point but lets just say the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) CFR and that sweet little task force has other plans! Open up the borders and go deeper south into Mexico and beyond!! Awake yet???? Yes they are actively working to create a new nation of North America, called the North American Union, (NAU) just like the EU, with a controlling politburo, where members are NOT elected by the people. Heidi Cruz was: “SPECIAL” Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick? Do you know WHO he is??? Mitt Romney put Zoellick on his team and caught great criticism over it but we didn’t hear about that through Fox or any one else now did we! Google it!! Just type in Romney and Robert B Zoellick. Its there!! So WHY would Heidi be a “special assistant” to him of ALL people? Is this a lawyer doing the work of a lawyer? Hardly, there is an agenda here. TASK FORCE MEMBERS: HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick.
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Read this about Eric Lycan and his Stand for Truth Super-PAC that is supporting Cruz, it’s Mitch McConnell, Romney, and McConnell’s own legal rats doing the Bush family genre of corrupt legalize crony capitalsm, and Hide-De-Money-Trail Heidi the Hussar for the Bush GOPe.
The Cruz family is all about their own uppity selfs trying to enrich and empower themselves by “Barry Lydoning” themselves into card carrying members of the Republican establishment Royalty elite, she is a disgusting CFR crony capitalist selling out the American worker so she can think she is Camelot. She is a Creepy Cruz and needs to be stopped. Stop Cruz, Stop Heidi and their decades long dream to be the next Clinton Cartel.
You watch, Levin is in the mix with these lawyers, too.
https://www.rnla.org/bio/BioDetail.asp?MemberID=3148
Trumpbots sure can get nasty. Like Reagan said “they know so much that isn’t so”.
You quoting Reagan now? That’s almost funny.
In July of 2005, Governor Perry gave a speech on the merits of private / public partnerships in transportation projects. The discussion revolved around Governor Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor Program and partnerships with foreign and San-Antonio Construction companies.
Opposition to the plan was based on a large array of concerns. These included:
•Cost - the program was estimated in 2002 to cost between US $145.2 Billion to $183.5 Billion
•Eminent Domain / Property Rights - the plan required about 584,000 acres to be purchased or acquired
•Environmental - the corridors are very wide and may disrupt wildlife
•Noise - estimates were that land around the corridor would be unusable within 1 mile
•Security - some believed that the system would be linked to a super-highway between the US and Mexico
The plan faced stiff opposition from the beginning and by 2006, the official position of both Republican and Democratic politicians was to oppose the plan. In 2006 Cintra_Zachry announced that the best course of action may be the “no-build” course. By January of 2009, Governor Perry was referring to the plan as “dead” in his official blog. However, when asked about the plan only days later while on a trip to Iraq, Governor Perry stated that the name was killed, but highway construction continued.
The name ‘Trans Texas Corridor’ is over with. We’re going to continue to builds in the state of Texas. Our options are fairly limited, due to Washington’s ineffectiveness from the standpoint of being able to deliver dollars, or for the Legislature to raise the gas tax.
Yes, I sure you don’t care for President Reagan.
Yep, that’s how I remember it.
It is one thing I did not like about Perry, but I thought he was a good Governor, overall.
He was on the wrong side of this issue, that’s for sure.
texhenry....another FReeper I have never seen before.....just in time for the election discussions. How many are there now MK?
75?
100?
150 ?
LOL
I say there good fellow
NAILED !
How come she was found nekkid by the road?
It’s amazing how many freepers I’ve never heard of who pop up during the primary season. And generally with a 1998 postdate. Where have they been for sixteen years?
Now, after all that hard work, would you have any Grey Poupon?
LOL
LOL Edited photo, not real, vs fact that even those who campaigned against him realize he is the best candidate for the republic. While he can’t provide 5 star bedrooms for free or international country club vacations that his voters wouldn’t be able to afford as perks to the elite, he can argue a case for the constitution and is 100% pro-life.
Of course it’s an edited photo, edited for political impact.
Now try refuting the FACTS contained within the TEXT.
Same to you, my FRiend! Tomorrow we buy the lamb.
I gave you a reason for their support and as for the CoFR being called a den of snakes, how would he know if his wife hadn’t told him?
Anatomy of a Smear: Heidi Cruz and the “North American Union”
BlogCritics.org ^ | May 3, 2012 | Dave Nalle
Posted on 5/15/2015, 12:52:26 PM by SoConPubbie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290193/posts
I’m sure there are similar stories about dirty campaign tricks from all over the country, but I’m here in Texas and have a particular interest in the kind of smears which have been surfacing in our Republican Senatorial primary. It’s an interesting race between an insider who started out with a presumed lock on the seat being vacated by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and an large field of candidates representing various interests and grassroots groups from whom an impressive leading challenger has emerged with a real surge of popular support.
Not surprisingly, when an anointed insider candidate like Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, who has nearly unlimited money at his command, feels threatened by an insurgent campaign, his reaction is to go negative as big as he can, and Dewhurst has gone after former Solicitor General Ted Cruz with both barrels. He has been running very negative attack ads for several weeks, spending $1 million a week and clearly planning to spend even more in the month remaining in the primary.
What makes this particular negative campaign interesting is that Dewhurst seems to be taking his cues from a third-tier candidate named Glenn Addison who began a negative campaign against Cruz early in the primary. Though there’s no real evidence, some have suspected that Addison may have been acting as a shill for Dewhurst the whole time, but the peculiar nature of his accusations suggest that his attacks on Cruz may have started as a kind of personal vendetta. The attacks are interesting because they all center around a conspiratorial, paleoconservative perspective characteristic of the John Birch Society.
The Bircher-style smears basically come down to taking various things from Cruz’ background and suggesting that he’s part of a conspiracy of the global elite and perhaps even some sort of closet international socialist. From Addison they merely seemed peculiar, but with Dewhurst’s money behind them and reaching a much wider audience they are a lot uglier and more disturbing.
I could go after the ridiculousness of tainting Cruz because his immigrant father fought with Castro as a teenager in Cuba, or because his law firm defended a Chinese tire company in a patent suit, or because he has taken some campaign money from arch-devil of the conspiracy fringe Goldman-Sachs. None of these other attacks make any sense, but there’s one attack which I find more offensive and which is right up my ally because of my past writings on the subject.
You see, it turns out that according to a whisper campaign coming from Dewhurst or Addison or perhaps direct from the John Birch Society, Ted Cruz’ wife is one of the architects of the dreaded “North American Union.” The JBS is the most likely original source in a now-deleted article in the online version of their New American magazine called “Faux Neo-Conservatives Defend North American Union.”
As it turns out, Cruz’ wife Heidi is an international investment banker who was invited to be part of a working group at the Council on Foreign Relations which reviewed a notorious 2005 paper called “Building a North American Community” which was largely authored by Robert Pastor and is the presumed origin of the idea of the North American Union, though Pastor has repeatedly denied that it contains anything like that.
Although the proposals in the paper are a mild call for general hemispheric economic cooperation with no formal structure, the conspiracy-inclined have interpreted it as a sinister conspiracy to destroy American sovereignty and combine us into a single union with Canada and Mexico. They are inherently suspicious of the Council on Foreign Relations, despite its repeated claims to be politically neutral and solely interested in studying issues objectively. It has become a lynchpin in globalist conspiracy theories and anything associated with it immediately looks more sinister in some eyes.
The paper is basically benign, pointing to ways that the nations of North America could work together through free markets and reducing trade barriers to spread more success and raise up the economies of the poorer countries. In its concluding section it says:
“North America is different from other regions of the world and must find its own cooperative route forward. A new North American community should rely more on the market and less on bureaucracy, more on pragmatic solutions to shared problems than on grand schemes of confederation or union, such as those in Europe. We must maintain respect for each other’s national sovereignty.”
Which certainly doesn’t sound all that terrible, what with acknowledging how different North America is from Europe, promoting market solutions instead of government and explicitly rejecting the idea of a “confederation or union” while promoting respect for national sovereignty. It’s almost like the conspiracy theorists never read the document, or gave up after the title and wrote a fantasy version in their heads based solely on the title and their obsession with the CFR.
Admittedly, there are plenty of bad ideas in the report. It’s full of proposals for government managed trade and incentive programs and inter-governmental cooperation for regulation and security. It’s all stuff which makes sense if you think government is the way to solve problems, but not something which would resonate with true conservatives. Yet the big irony here is that it appears that Heidi Cruz doesn’t even agree with those aspects of the report for which she is being blamed.
Heidi Cruz’ role in all of this was as one of a large panel of readers and her sole identifiable contribution to the project is a one-paragraph response in the final appendix in which she says:
“We must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us — truly the measure of our success. As such, investment fundsand financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.”
So basically, her role here is to say that free markets and free trade are the answer to greater regional prosperity. I find it hard to believe that any conservative or republican would disagree with this or condemn her for believing it, and it’s positively bizarre to see someone who is as much of a globalist insider as Dewhurst raising this sort of argument.
The whole idea that Heidi Cruz is part of some grand conspiracy is patently ridiculous. It’s guilt by association and by innuendo from people who don’t understand the CFR or the report which they so revile and who assume that anyone who may have been in a room with Robert Pastor or William Weld must be some sort of globalist stooge. The reality is that the CFR draws on a diverse pool of experts, most of whom have very little involvement in the organization and that its output, like this paper, tends to be in the form of general suggestions with no force behind them which no one ever really acts on. We certainly aren’t plunging headlong into any kind of regional union on the basis of one paper which no one seems to have read.
I chose this particular attack as an example because it is so blatantly baseless. There’s no conspiracy, explicitly no proposal for a North American Union in the source document, and it’s not even clear that Heidi Cruz was all that supportive of the conclusions of the report. It’s all a patchwork of irrational fear and ignorant assumptions with no substance to it whatever. Yet I still see many conservatives who might otherwise support Ted Cruz’ run for the Senate repeating this story at face value without ever having looked into the utter lack of truth behind it.
Something has made some conservatives awfully gullible and extremely suspicious. But you have to wonder why those suspicions aren’t directed at David Dewhurst, a man with connections to every kind of global interest, whose campaign is bought and paid for by big oil, bankers and trial lawyers, and who is basically trying to buy a seat in the Senate with a million dollars a week of negative ads based on BS which he assumes no one will bother to check out. That shouldn’t just make you suspicious. It should make you angry.
I was just thinking. When DT went to Scotland to build his greatest golf course in the world in a PROTECTED national park-like area of dunes, and now having abandoned it, building in Ireland, or in Atlantic City or wherever he builds doesn’t he say it is going to be GOOD for the economy of the area? Isn’t he building as a member of the same PRIVATE SECTOR that Mrs. Cruz was defending in her paragraph for the North American Union?
Great catch I’ve had run ins with texhenry myself.
Sometimes you can tead the old texts and the new and see it’s a different person.
We had an account here one time that someone was posting 24/7. Several people same account. Another technique is several people coming on and attack or spread crap and support each other. Sometimes I’ll bet their on the same room
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