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until last fall, Cruz has no record, other than being assigned to defend the laws that Dewhurst passed in the Texas Senate (I believe actual Senators hasd something to do with that to, as Dewhurst is just the presiding officer of the Texas Senate)

I never knew the Solicitor General's only duties were to defend the laws that the Lieutenant Governor passed in the Senate.

Or that the Lieutenant Governor was soley responsible for passing laws in the Senate.

I admit I am not as political savvy as others, so bear with me.

About Cruz having no record, he actually does

• law clerk to William Rehnquist and J. Michael Luttig

• authored more than eighty briefs before the United States Supreme Court and presented forty-three oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.

• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms

• Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States

• He has enough of a record that "Ted is currently the only Senate candidate in the nation to have the support of sitting U.S. Senators Jim DeMint,[25] Mike Lee,[26] Rand Paul,[27] and Pat Toomey.

  Dewhurst...has lead a partisan Senate through runaway Dems.

  Dewhurst appointed 32 Democrats to committee chairmanships, which resulted in killing conservative legislation.

  "Dewhurst has consistently sided with Democrats more often than with conservative Republicans, according to a study by Dr. Mark Jones, the chairman of the Department of Political Science at Rice University"

  "...(in) a Dewhurst-run Senate...the senators who enjoyed the most success were in the moderate and center wings of the Republican Party."

  Dewhurst's position in favor of government schools and against parents being able to choose how their children are schooled is not to my liking.

  A lot of the information in this post is from links I posted above and Wikipedia.

  Your guy has done some good stuff I admit.

  But I will always align myself with candidates who are closest to Tea Party ideals.

  Oh and earlier, I wasn't implying that the "owner" wasn't an American, just that he moved his factory to China.

  May the best man win!

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Either Dewhurst gets credit for passing Tort reform, loser pays, DOMA, Voter ID, the sonogram bill and a Woman’s Right to Know, etc., or he shouldn’t get blamed for the bad things that have happened.

What that Rice professor’s article actually says is that Dewhurst must be more “moderate” than 4 of the Republican Senators. But — showed him more conservative than the other 27.

That Rice professor put Hairy Legged Jeff *Wentworth* in the “conservative” column, btw.

As to the Dems as Chairs - that’s tradition in Texas. For one thing, we’ve got Dems more conservative on business and right to life than Wentworth who voted against Tort reform, WRTK, and the Sonogram bill.)

The Solicitor General does what the Attorney General tells him to do. He’s a staffer, an appointed position. (On the other hand, he would have had leeway on signing papers as Counsel of Record for his law firm who signed up with Linglong.)

Cruz is good at arguing. We have no idea what sort of legislator he will be.