Posted on 04/10/2016 8:21:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ted Cruz risks primary disqualification in New Jersey resulting from charges of ballot access fraud. A primary ballot disqualification hearing is scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey.
Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access. Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: "Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a 'natural born' American citizen." Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is a naturalized (not natural born) American citizen.
Williams' fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz's ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State ( Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office.
Cruz's ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at gloucestercitynews.net ...
Do not even attempt to insert Cruz’s name or Jindal’s name or Rubio’s name into revered circle of our founding fathers. 229 years later, we deserve undivided allegiance.
Thanks for all your hard work in putting this together. Very interesting.
http://www.usanewsandinformationservice.com/uspresidentsfb.html
1st citizenship law for the state of Virginia that was passed in May of 1779:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act, and all who shall hereafter migrate into the same; and shall before any court of record give satisfactory proof by their own oath or affirmation, that they intend to reside therein, and moreover shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth; and all infants wheresoever born, whose father, if living, or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth, or who migrate hither, their father, if living, or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen, or who migrate hither without father or mother, shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth, until they relinquish that character in manner as herein after expressed: And all others not being citizens of any the United States of America, shall be deemed aliens.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_2_1s4.html
Raphael Edward "Ted" Cruz, for purposes of Article 2 of the US Constitution is a naturalized citizen, his father being an alien at the time of Ted's birth in Canada. And there would not have been one court in the US at that time who would have disagreed with this, including in 1790. The father MUST have been a US citizen for the child to be considered a 'natural born' or 'naturalized' citizen of the US. The only time the mother's nationality came into play is if the father was deceased.
READ the CONSTITUTION!
Article II, Section I, Clause 5
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President...........”
“at the time of the adoption of this Constitution” says it all.
Was Ted Cruz born in the 1700’s? NO! So your argument is invalid.
Doesn’t it seem funny to some people that the war in Cuba with Bastisia and Castro was AFTER Senor Cruz was somehow released from prison, after he was beaten up, and went to some College in Texas? Especially during that time, we were not accepting Cubans into America...Kennedy was Pres. and the Bay of Pigs, etc..... and he just ‘happened’ to come here?
By now, most Americans have heard the heartwarming tales of Rafael Cruz’s excellent adventures: how he fought as a teenage revolutionary in Cuba, was captured and tortured, escaped to America by way of a student visa, spoke almost no English, worked 7 days a week to support himself and pay for school… an incredible story… Literally.
When Rafael Cruz spoke to Conservatives at the River Plantation Country Club in Conroe, Texas in January, D Magazine reported:
The Young “Revolutionary”
Rafael Cruz’s standard bio usually includes a phrase such as:
“Rafael suffered under a cruel, oppressive dictator. He began fighting Batista’s regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured – beaten nearly to death – simply to be free.”
Rafael Cruz, born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1939, grew up in a “middle class” family; his father was an RCA salesman, his mother a teacher. As Cruz tells it, he began fighting with Castro’s revolutionaries against Fulgencio Batista in 1953, at the age of fourteen. First a little Castro back-history:
•1948 Bogotá, Colombia: after the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán; Castro spends five years traveling, learning about revolution and raising funds
•1952 Fidel Castro runs for Congress; Fulgencio Batista takes over in bloodless coup; elections canceled.
•1953 Castro attacks the Moncada barracks, he and brother Raul are arrested and imprisoned.
•1955 Castro brothers released; head to Mexico, not returning until 1956, when Batista’s forces drive them into the Sierra Maestra.
•Castro wages guerilla warfare from that location until Batista is driven from power two years later.
Obviously, Castro wasn’t’t even around to talk about “hope and change” as Cruz has claimed but hey, if the voting base will fall for it… anyway… In Castro’s absence, many factions of the resistance such as the FEU (University Students’ Federation), and its’ militant arm the Directorio Revolucionario under Jose Eccheveria, along with the urban fighters of the “26th of July Movement” under Frank Pais (known as M-26-7 for the date that Castro had attacked the Moncada barracks), carried on independent of Castro.
Even so, Rafael Cruz would have us believe he existed as a high school student by day, and revolutionary “throwing Molotov cocktails and blowing up buildings” by night. One has to wonder, would that be before or after he did his homework, because by his own account he managed to maintain “straight A’s throughout high school”, while keeping his parents in the dark about his activities for four years.
In a fawning post in the National Review, Mario Loyola reports that by the age of 17, this straight A student/ revolutionary has supposedly become “…a leading FEU figure in Santiago de Cuba”. Quite miraculous, as Santiago de Cuba is over 400 miles from this straight A student’s home in Matanzas.
Of Cruz upon Castro’s return in ’56, Loyola writes:
“They knew that Castro intended to land in Cuba and hoped to organize an urban uprising along with it. But Castro and the anti-Batista forces failed to coordinate in any meaningful way, and when Castro’s boat landed near Manzanillo in Oriente province, the hoped-for urban uprising failed to materialize.”
I don’t know how Rafael missed the memo, but the urban uprising was planned for, and did take place in Santiago de Cuba to correspond with Castro’s arrival, on November 30, the day Castro told them he would arrive. The resistance was unaware that Castro had encountered trouble on his way to Cuba, so the plan went forward, carried out by M-26-7. Time Magazine reported on Monday, Dec. 10, 1956:
“Just before dawn one day last week, the revolt got under way—again in Santiago. Machine gunners, in olive-drab uniforms with black-and-red armbands marked “26 de Julio,” fired on police headquarters.
At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons.
At other towns—Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara—other Castro-men rebelled.”
Somehow, this revolutionary “leader” missed the action, just as he seems to have missed the action in March of that year, when his fellow FEU revolutionaries lost their lives attempting to take over the Presidential Palace in Havana and kill Batista. That operation was carried out just 50 miles from his home.
Cruz tells how in 1957, while back in Matanzas, he gets caught by Batista’s forces; here’s where things get a little confusing for Rafael: sometimes he was captured once, sometimes twice; sometimes his father paid a bribe to get him out, other times they just let him go.
During his incarceration, he claims he was severely beaten by prison guards “every four hours, for several days’, describing the pain as almost unbearable to the point of being “unable to feel his hands and legs”, often claiming he was beaten “nearly to death”. Ultimately, “by the grace of God” he says, he was released.
Now consider, at the same time, Batista’s police and military are given carte blanche to deal with Castro’s followers as they wish:
Spartacus: “… Suspects, including children, were publicly executed and then left hanging in the streets for several days as a warning to others who were considering joining Castro.
History of Cuba: “… 4 youths are found dead in an empty building, including 14-year old William Soler. They had been arrested as suspects in revolutionary activities and tortured.”
Batista orders at least one of his generals to “kill ten rebels for every soldier killed”.
But they just let Rafael Cruz go… twice? Not only that, it seems they called Rafael’s Dad to come pick him up after they were through “torturing” him. Imagine that phone call:
“Hello, Mr.Cruz? Yeah look, we’ve got your son down here; he’s gotten himself into a little bit of trouble but I think he’s learned a valuable lesson. You can pick him up any time… by ambulance would probably be a good idea.”
So, Dad picks him up and takes him home; not to the hospital mind you, but home. Obviously a miraculous healer/ straight A student/ revolutionary. Here’s what supposedly happens next:
Well I got home. My father took me home. I was eighteen years old and… I had been home about an hour and a lady from the underground whom I didn’t’t know came and said “Look, you’re being followed. There are two people assigned to follow you around the clock in shifts of eight hours. She brought me to the window of the living room and she said “You see that guy in that corner, and that guy in the other corner, those are the two assigned to follow you now.”
Evidently, he’s being followed by the Keystone Cops, because these two mopes are standing on the street in front of his house in plain sight, while it seems no one is watching the back (They don’t seem to grasp the concept of working in shifts either). At the same time, this woman from the “underground” which, you know, means SECRET… well she’s just outed herself to Batista’s goons by coming to Cruz’s home. Anyway…Cruz continues:
So I said “I want to go to the mountains” and she said “I’m sorry, it’s impossible… [of course it is] … Batista had at that time a very substantial raid. Had the mountains surrounded…”
Yet, a New York Times reporter in Cuba at that time reported “a constant exodus from the city [Santiago de Cuba] of youths who try to join Fidel Castro, a young rebel leader in the nearby Sierra-Maestra.” But this “lady from the underground” tells Rafael:
“The revolution says that the best thing you can do is to leave the country. So that I would not jeopardize all the people who were involved”.
Is this guy serious? These people fighting for their country what – held an emergency meeting to discuss what 18-year-old Rafael Cruz should do… for the good of the entire urban operation? I guess we know where Junior acquired his propensity for overblown self-importance. The best term used for Rafael (and his son) thus far is Bette Noir’s description of them as “fabulists”.
In hundreds of articles and narratives regarding the revolution, including those of the FEU and the DR, as well as declassified State Department files, that identify the revolution’s key players by name, I’ve yet to find Rafael Cruz anywhere. Then again, I haven’t yet found the tributes to those who “heroically” bailed on their fellow freedom fighters. Cruz:
“So I figure, what’s the best way to get out of the country. I know, I’ll apply to a university in the United States and leave with a student visa”.
Now the “brave young revolutionary”, having decided the possible freedom of his country isn’t’t worth dying for, is getting out of Dodge. Imagine someone in our Revolutionary War saying, “Wow, things are really heating up; I think I’ll go study abroad.”
Is it likely that Rafael Cruz got caught up in the demonstrations against Batista as a teenager and threw some Molotov cocktails with his buddies? Sure it is. Is it plausible that someone who calls himself a “leading figure” in Cuba’s FEU would be caught once if not twice and let go, when his fellow revolutionaries were being murdered and left as warnings in the street? Hardly. Mr. Loyola makes a lame attempt to explain why Cruz was just let go:
“His quick release was due to the fact that Batista was on a political knife’s edge and simply couldn’t’t afford to detain lots of people for very long.”
Flowery prose, but ridiculous. Batista’s men were torturing and murdering with impunity; they were hanging children from lampposts for God’s sake. It is sweet though, how Conservatives try to help Rafael cover the gaping holes in his narrative. (More about that in part 3)
Rafael Cruz is careful never to mention any particular events he took part in, just those he couldn’t’t for one reason or another; if anything, he seems to have been an extremely inept revolutionary. It also seems the elder Cruz’s tales have managed to raise the ire of many Cuban exiles, as Cuba 54 reports:
“Cubans who fought in the Revolution were incensed at hearing Cruz’ claims that he escaped death several times and managed to get away ‘by the Grace of God.’ The[y] say that he ‘urinates on the graves of true youth heroes like William Soler, Jose Echeverria, and Frank Pais.’ The living Cuban heroes label Rafael Cruz a ‘bola de grasa’; a greaseball.”
And there you have it, from the mouths of his fellow countrymen. Maybe Ted shouldn’t count on that Cuban-American vote just yet. Now we head to America, where Rafael Cruz’s “inspiring” biography runs completely, irretrievably, off the rails.
Oh, please. This might be the first time since Eisenhower and Reagan that someone has been willing to be president because of love of country. The political class has made a mess of things, forgetting that they're US citizens first and foremost.
Maybe you can underline the part that says “white”’ too.
My initial post stated I did my own research, thank you very much....
I’ve also read numerous opinions by legal scholars....
Since I’m not a constitutional attorney, proper analysis of bits’ and pieces is at best confusing....
Answers are all over the place....everyone points to their own researched documents stating it supports their opinion....
Obviously it will need to be litigated....
Talk about an admission against interest. This is so bad for Cruz that I am now predicting he will Drop out before the convention. There are other issues brewing for him but this one is politically fatal. That will leave Trump as the only eligible nominee and he will win on the first ballot because 1237 will not be necessary because under Rule 16 a delegate bound to a person not in nomination is not eligible to vote. I am counting well over 400 bound to ineligible candidates so Trump will only need about 1037 votes for a majority and he is in!!
Cruz’s dad held US citizenship in disdain for fifty(50) years and clung to his Cuban and then Canadian citizenship. I suppose it saved him some taxes and he avoided the draft. He reaped the benefits, but didn’t bother to vote.
Papa Cruz did not acquire US citizenship until “Felito” lil Fidel entered politics in 2005.
No, it’s not settled law. Some judges have allowed Cruz to appear on their ballots, but it hasn’t been a universally accepted standard.
Personally, I’d like to see the original papers that affirm that Cruz is a US citizen, and their date. We know he wasn’t born here
When I was in school—long before Outcome Based Education and No Child Left Behind, it was VERY easy...
2 PARENTS WHO ARE CITIZENS OF THE USA, BORN ON US SOIL.
If we keep redefining, one of these years, we are going to have a Chinese Birth Tourist or ISIS member run :(
No it is not settled
Unlike obama and his possible Indonesian problem, cruz apparently did take steps to drop his canadian citizenship
Which a natural born American should never have to do
Also there are “questions ‘ about his mother’s birth that a true dedicated investigation should pursue
But as we saw with obama, can be suppressed by tptb
Yes, there have also been reports by a neighbor in Canada regarding mom’s citizenship.
It is very troubling to me that he sealed his papers and records from school...just like barry did.
Lol. After April19th, trump 840. Cruz 535. Hardly worried. And don’t get me started on April 26th. Cruz officially dead as a campaign. Trump has 1100 delegates April 27th.
Just sayin'.....
Thank you, Hoosiermama. An EXCELLENT post to which ALL TRUE AMERICANS SHOULD AGREE!
44 Presidents all born on American soil.
47 Vice-Presidents all born on American soil.
Along comes Raphael Cruz born in Canada. We should accept that ‘Ted’ has special privileges and is exempt from the presidential qualifications. After all, Ted is an esteemed Constitutional scholar and has declared himself eligible.
Ted is the son of a foreigner who rejected American citizenship for fifty (50) years in favor of Cuban and Canadian citizenship. Ted is the son of an American born mother who dwelled in England and Canada for the most part of a decade of the years surrounding Ted’s birth. She may or may not have applied for Ted’s citizenship, records are sealed.
And his wife served on CFR and is well funded by Goldman Sachs. The most we can say about Ted’s origins is that he was born within the perimeter of the globalist dream of the North American Union. Ted could be the 1st NAU dictator.
The worst part of this that he knows he is not eligible and wishes to unilaterally force the dissolution of the natural born citizen requirement.
The Highest authority is the U.S. Constitution.
The worst worst part is that “some” seem to delusionally believe Teddy is a “messiah”, come to lead the People out of something into somewhere, but that doesn’t matter, since Ted is divinely destined to rule. Or some such malarky.
There’s no defending the indefensible so they call stupid names and toss out juvenile insults like their lame candidate, LYING Canadian Cruz.
Unless his mother had already earned Canadian citizenship at that time - but had not informed the US of that fact. Her citizenship may have already been forfeit at that point.
For example, my wife was born in China. She has since become a US citizen - but has not notified China of that fact, and still retains a Chinese passport as it makes caring for her grandmother, still in China, a heck of a lot easier. Any child we'd have now would be a US citizen by birth from both of us - but the Chinese Government would still assume they would be Chinese by virtue of her supposed Chinese citizenship (which became null and void - per China law, which is the same as US law - where taking an oath to another country is de-facto surrendering of citizenship).
Yes, terrible bad luck for Cruz but a definite possibility which would, in fact, render him a citizen of Canada and not of the US.
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