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To: Robert DeLong
I should put a little more than that into my response.

Heidi Cruz was a CFR member. Fact.

Heidi Cruz played an "integral role" in Building the NA Union Report. Subjective. She wrote a single paragraph emphasizing the role the private market should have in such an arrangement.

Ted Cruz's "sweetheart" loan from Goldman Sachs. Subjective. Cruz took out a margin loan to fund his senate race. There is no proof he received any special treatment. He did neglect to file an FEC disclosure (he did file it immediate upon being notified), but did file the other paperwork, indicating he did not intend to deceive anyone.

Its up to each of us whether or not to believe any of this should disqualify Cruz, makes him a "liar", or "sleazy", or "worse than Obama". I don't think it does. And I could come up with many many more questionable things Trump has done and could easily characterize him as a sleazy guy. But I'd rather consider what each might do as president and base my opinions on that.

115 posted on 04/07/2016 12:45:28 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter
She wrote a single paragraph emphasizing the role the private market should have in such an arrangement.

Show me where you are getting that piece of information.

There is no proof he received any special treatment.

But there is proof that he got very low interest rate loans from Goldman Sachs & another bank, Citibank I believe it was, but it might have been Chase.

It does not go to sleaze factor, but rather to who Ted really is.

Remember he ran as the guy that railed against the political influence big banks had on politicians and was the reason they received bailouts. So getting loans from these very same entities would not have swayed voters to vote for him, which is why his very late disclosure of these loans is important.

The loans themselves were not nefarious, they were perfectly legal, but not disclosing the loans was a slight of hand to keep the truth from the voters. It was quietly disclosed on the forms just prior to the runoff election. Then later claimed after it became public that it was an oversight.

Ted is way too smart for that to have been the real reason. We now also know that he is clever enough to play the game of politics. My belief is that it was intentional, because after all many would believe that it was just an oversight. Even I believed it because I wanted Dewhurst out of there.

You are going to believe what you want to believe, and I am under no delusion that I will change your mind, but I am on record as to telling you the truth about your man Ted.

130 posted on 04/07/2016 1:36:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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