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madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:23 PM Mar 2016

Heidi Cruz. Another lackey from Bush's economic and national security advisor's stable...

In 2000, she secured a spot on George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign as an economic policy aide in Austin, where she met Mr. Cruz, another Bush policy adviser. Their first date was a dinner that lasted nearly four hours. In a 2001 New York Times Magazine article about couples who met while working on the Bush campaign, Mr. Cruz said he had driven her to the airport so she could fly back to finish her Harvard M.B.A. and asked, “What do you want to do now?”

Mrs. Cruz responded, “If you really want to keep in touch, I want to talk to you every day.”

By May 2001, the Cruzes were married. Over the next several years, their union was tested.

As Mrs. Cruz climbed the ranks of the Bush administration, eventually working at the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Cruz’s Washington track stalled, prompting him to return to Texas, where in 2003 he was appointed solicitor general, an influential post.

The pair had reached a crossroads: Mrs. Cruz had made it in Washington. Mr. Cruz had made it in Texas.

After the couple spent more than a year commuting to see each other, Mrs. Cruz diverted her career path to join her husband in Texas — taking on the challenge of returning to the financial services industry after years away. She initially joined Merrill Lynch in Houston, about 160 miles from Mr. Cruz’s job in Austin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/us/politics/ted-cruz-wife-campaign.html?_r=0

I don't give a shit if Rafael has been loose with his penis (though it does make him a hypocrit), but she is also a member of the Rebupican Elite from the Bush Misadministration and belongs nowhere closer than ten million miles from the White House.

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Heidi Cruz. Another lackey from Bush's economic and national security advisor's stable... (Original Post) madinmaryland Mar 2016 OP
That's perfectly fair. Ilsa Mar 2016 #1
That is creepy Gman Mar 2016 #2
Mixed feelings on her mrs_p Mar 2016 #3

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. That's perfectly fair.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:36 PM
Mar 2016

I wouldn't let her mental health issues affect me, though. That wasn't a choice of hers.

mrs_p

(3,014 posts)
3. Mixed feelings on her
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:17 PM
Mar 2016

Her beliefs are downright nutty and she married possibly one of the sleaziest politicians to come out of the teabag movement. But I do admire her hard work over the years and feel badly that she has had bouts of depression (it seems).

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