Why does the GOPe not understand that the voters are wise to their games? At least Trump gives us a chance to fight. Otherwise it’s just standing by while our own team sells us down the river, signing enabling act after enabling act and contributing to lawlessness.
You really should watch the video I linked above, interview of Heidi Cruz. Here is part of a written commentary about it from www.Calebsreport.com
She notes that Claremont professors she later worked with included:
1. Dr. Edward Haley in Washington D.C. (Dr. Haley = Claremont professor)
2. Dr. S. Brock Blomberg in Washington D.C. (Dr. Blombert = Dean of Robert Day School of Economics, Claremont plus appointments to Federal Reserve in NY, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush
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Awarded and accepted a Rotary Scholarship 1 year after graduation from Claremont which allowed her to study Eastern European economies while living in Western Europe. The Rotary Scholarship was as a result of her nomination by Dr. P. Edward Haley of Claremont McKenna College (also the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., W.M. Keck Foundation, and Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
The questions she worked with were:
1. Could Western Europe integrate countries of Eastern Europe?
2. How could Western Europe create a monetary union and a corresponding political union in that region?
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She has worked in both the public and private sector. Which does she like best?
She definitely prefers working in the public sector but also feels “going back and forth between the two” can help her in many ways including knowledge and experience she can take from the private sector into the public sector.
Job path so far includes:
1. Studied international economics and politics
2. J.P. Morgan Chase in New York City (Investment banker)
3. Political assignments by and with George W. Bush
4. Goldman Sachs executive (Investment banker / Private group investments – as in foundations, countries, etc.) She notes in the interview here she has many international clients (countries).
Her current interests are in Emerging Markets, Eastern European Economies, and Western European integration of European Markets.
She has also added experience in Latin emerging markets to her portfolio although it was not of personal choice or desire. (More detail on that below.)
After completing her Rotary Scholarship, she went to work for J. P. Morgan, 60 Wall Street, NYC (the J.P. Morgan Headquarters and also the American headquarters of Deutsche Bank).
She wanted to work with emerging markets of Eastern Europe but knew she could only do that in London. However, she felt it was a better career move for her to be in New York, (calling it a “keen” decision career wise), so she accepted the job of working with emerging markets of Latin countries.
She felt working in New York City would give her the inroads to getting into leadership opportunities in the financial community, so she began her work at the J.P. Morgan Bank as an economic expert in Latin American Emerging Markets.
While in New York and at J.P. Morgan there, she began working with:
Robert Zoellick (you hear her call him Bob or bob Zoellick), later in the George W. Bush administration)
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After J.P. Morgan, she was offered a paid position working with the George W. Bush campaign and made a “calculated risk” to take that believing it would be a good career move for her down the road.
She stresses how her training at Claremont McKenna College taught her how to assess a risky choice and if a good risk, to take advantage of a good situation that can be useful to one’s career later.
She felt working for George W. Bush, at such a high level political level, would benefit her politically down the road and at least give her good returns for her work.
On her first day working for George W. Bush Transition team in Florida and working directly under Robert “Bob” Zoellick, she wanted to make it clear she would go above and beyond whatever it took for those she worked for, so she went to “Bob” and told him that whatever he needed from her, she would do. (This is as her story in her own words. See video if desired).
She felt that a person like her with her training and a “newly minted MBA from Harvard like her” would be asked to sit in with him to discuss finances and monetary issues. Instead, “Bob” Zoellick said “Well then, I need juice and bread from the store”.
While feeling insulted (as she described) that someone like her would be asked to do something so menial, she said she soon came to realize he was making a point… that he wanted to know if she really WOULD do anything at all he asked her to do.
So she went to the grocery store and got him some juice and bread.
He had a similar request of her the second day, and she obliged by following exactly what he wanted her to do.
The third day, he asked her to come into confidential discussions, and she was included in all financial discussions after that point.
When Robert “Bob” Zoellick was appointed to George W. Bush’s administration, she was the first person he called to have him join him.
She emphasized that if you want your career to advance… if you want to get ahead professionally… you need to be willing to do anything for the one who can advance your career.”
This is concerning given that she says at the beginning of her video, “I will forever be indebted to my professors.”