Got a link or something?
I don’t have a link to the Cruz citizenship issue, but I read the theory. Evidently both Cruz’ parents were listed on Canadian voter rolls barely a year after moving there. Only Canadian citizens can vote, and in most cases it takes five years for a foreigner to gain citizenship.
So what happened?
According to one theory, Eleanor Wilson became a British citizen during her protracted stay in England with her first husband. According to the article I read, Canada has a special provision that allows British citizens to naturalize in one year. Rafael Sr, being the husband of a British citizen, would have been allowed the same consideration.
Is it true? I don’t know. All I know for certain is that if Ted’s Consular File were in perfect order, he’d have revealed the contents by now. It doesn’t help him, and indeed, it hurts him, to have people wondering exactly what happened following his Canadian birth. Did his parents even report the birth to the American embassy? We simply have no way of knowing.
The biggest clue is that when the issue first came up, Cruz did not provide simple, straightforward answers. Rather, he linked to an idiotic video. That’s exactly how Obama handled similar questions: by mocking and ridiculing the questioners, rather than by providing respectful, substantive answers.
There would be no reason for Cruz to deflect on this issue if he had nothing to hide.