So what nationality is Cruz?
Cruz was born and spend the first four years of his life in Calgary, Alberta, Canada before his parents returned to Houston, Texas. His father, after fighting for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution and being jailed and tortured by the Batista regime,[25] moved to Austin in 1957 to study at the University of Texas. He spoke no English and had $100 sewn into his underwear.[26] The elder Cruz worked his way through school as a dishwasher making 50 cents an hour. Cruz’s mother, who was from Houston, was the first person in her family ever to go to college. She earned a math degree at Rice University in the 1950s, working summers at Foley’s and Shell. “I’m Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.”[2] Cruz is married to Heidi Suzanne Cruz. They have two daughters, Caroline Camille and Catherine Christiane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
$100 was a month’s salary in 1957 - maybe more. How did Cruz, Sr. manage to get into and afford UT Austin? Why did he leave Cuba in the middle of the revolution?
Dewhurst,a classic “citizen legislator,” has only been in politics for about dozen years. He ran for office for the first time when he was in his 50’s, winning his race for Land Commissioner in 1998 before he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2002. Because he’s 65 years old, he will naturally be “term limited.”
Compare these two men:
— Dewhurst was born in Houston, Texas; Cruz in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Dual or triple citizenship?)
— Dewhurst’s father fought the Nazis for the US; Cruz’ father fought Batista with Castro.
— Both grew up in the Houston area, but Dewhurst, whose father was killed by a drunk driver when David was only 3, worked while attending Lamar High School, while Cruz attended private schools.
— Both joined the debate teams at their high schools, but Dewhurst did it in an attempt to overcome his stuttering.
— Dewhurst played basketball for Arizona to put himself through college; Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard.
— Dewhurst proved himself in the Air Force and then the CIA.
— Dewhurst is a private businessman who built his company from scratch, surviving the slump in the ‘80’s, and has succeeded outside of politics. Cruz has never run a company and worked in government jobs until the last couple of years.
In other words, Ted Cruz is American.