Editors Note: The South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution of support for Donald Trump as the Presidential nominee at the State Convention last week. While some Republicans are still not supportive, many have crossed over to the Trump camp. This article is one in a series written by a Republican who has made that transition. Part I and Part II have been previously published here.
Part III: Heidi Cruz
I wondered why Heidi Nelson was selected as a financial advisor to the 2000 Bush presidential campaign. I learned that she had impressive academic degrees in finance: a B.A. in Economics and International Relations; studies abroad at the University of Strasbourg; a Masters of European Business degree from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, the financial think tank and epicenter of the European Union; and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Heidi joined the Bush campaign the year she graduated from Harvard. She had academic credentials but was a theorist with no experience in the financial world. Her training in Brussels and at Harvard indicated that she was well versed in open border/ European Union economics and this caused me to wonder what economic theories she embraced. It is well known that the Bush family is in favor of a world with no economic or physical borders.
It is obvious that Heidi Cruz is steeped in the European Union model of economics where an elite bureaucracy runs the economy and controls the economic lives of the rank and file.
It was during her tenure at the Bush presidential campaign that Heidi met her future husband. Ted Cruz and Heidi Nelson, both committed evangelical Christians, married in 2001.
Heidi began her government career as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, focusing on economic policy. In 2002 Cruz worked as director of the Latin America desk at the Department of Treasury. In 2003 she reported directly to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and eventually she became the director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council. She left government service in order to be with her husband in Texas.
Heidi entered the world of international finance when she worked for three investment banks, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs. In 2005, she went to work for Goldman Sachs as a private wealth manager. After serving at Goldman Sachs for seven years, Cruz was promoted in 2013 to regional head of the Southwest United States for the Investment Management Division in Houston.
From 2005-2011 Heidi Cruz was an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR promotes globalization, free trade, reducing financial regulations on transnational corporations, and economic consolidation into regional blocs such as NAFTA or the European Union.
Heidi was a member of the Independent Task Force on North America that in 2005 published a report entitled “Building a North American Community.” This document [http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102] promotes a North American Union modeled on the European Union.
Heidi Cruz is in step with the Bush family goal of a world without financial or physical borders run by an “enlightened” elite. Meanwhile, the European Union is crumbling, financially and politically/. Brittan is threatening to withdraw and if it does other nations will follow. Switzerland and Greenland, both of which never joined the Union, are doing just fine.
Heidi is half of the Cruz power-couple team and she is clearly in the camp of those who advocate a strong world government run by enlightened elites. Can we really believe that Ted Cruz is not in agreement with his wife’s goals? Do we want another Bill and Hillary team in the White House?
Part IV: Why I Support Donald Trump for President – #1
In the spirit of full disclosure I must reveal that I am an expatriate New Yorker. The first 22 years of my life were spent in NYC. I went to city public schools from kindergarten through college. I lived in a city apartment and was steeped in the culture. I’ve live 40 years in SD and I do not want to live anywhere else in the world, but at the very heart of me I am still a NY girl. But, because I am NYC born and bred I understand Donald Trump.
New Yorkers are famous for their brash, braggadocio attitude. Travelers to NYC are quick to comment on the lack of deference shown them by clerks at City businesses. New Yorkers are quick with a retort and slow to an apology but they are also brave, involved and quick to help a neighbor in need. They are insane drivers and the air between cars turns blue with comments in high traffic areas. Hollywood is very fond of using New Yorkers as amusing, interesting, endearing characters. A large number of our greatest comedians come out of NYC.
“The Donald” (an affectionate name coined by his first wife, Ivana) is the quintessential New Yorker. He too was born and bred in NYC. He is no different from Moshe at the deli counter or Vinny at the fish market: he knows his place in the world, he likes himself and he’s not afraid of confrontation. Eternally polite and modest westerners tend to be shocked by the NY affect, but it is not false, it is just a regional difference.
I am not supporting Donald Trump as a default candidate. I believe he is the best option available to restore the nation. Trump is not a politician nor is he a political theorist. I doubt that he has ever tried to classify himself as a constitutionalist, or a progressive or as an adherent to any other of the current political warring theories. Trump is a patriot who loves the country and wants it to return it to former greatness. He thinks in terms of what is best for America and the American people. He loves free enterprise because he has built his considerable fortune on classic capitalism. He has apparently not been part of the current crony capitalist system and has functioned on the fringes of the ruling class. He most definitely is not a supporter of those who dream of a single world government, with a single monetary system, run by a smarter-than-everyone-else ruling class of elites. Trump is a boot strap guy who wants everyone else to enjoy the same opportunities that have allowed him to excel in the marketplace. Trump is a nationalist, not a globalist. Those who dream of a single world government hate and fear Trump.
*** Barbara Landers *** is a Conservative activist, author and business woman
Barbara, your article was well written and your opinion well presented. However, your OPINION appears to be at odds with Trump’s own words and actions. He’s definitely NOT a Christian, a Conservative or even the right person for the job. In past elections, we were forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. In this election, we’re being forced to vote for the person least likely to finish the destruction of our nation which progressives, in both parties, have sought for decades and which Obamma accelerated. I see no daylight between either of the candidates and simply can’t participate in this exercise in futility.
Thomas, I don’t see where Barb accused Trump of being a Christian. She is saying he doesn’t wear labels like Christian, Conservative, Republican…he uses a different language. He does not call himself a Christian, but when I took his very expensive courses, every lesson was based on the Christian morals of giving, avoiding aggressive greed, doing unto others, learning the law, staying within the law. I must remind you that the last admitted Christian we had was Jimmy Carter…not my idea of a good president.