Zoellick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Trilateral Commission, and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter to President William Jefferson Clinton.
Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization (WTO), developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting at Doha, shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement, and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.
In an October 2007 speech to the National Press Club, Zoellick stated that “we are working with our Board to significantly step up our assistance to the international efforts to address climate change.
Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
In addition to being the Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative HEIDI CRUZ was also an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and of course her CFR contributions for a North American Union Merging Task Force for five years. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
NOTE: Currently Heidi Cruz is the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs. She was promoted to that position from being Vice President nine days after Ted Cruz was elected to the United States Senate. There is only one step higher in the Goldman Sachs organization above managing director: full partner.
One wonders if Heidi may be the “honey pot” and BEARD equivilant to Ted, as Huma is to Hitlery (things that make ya go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)
Wow, CFR and NAFTA.
Thanks for the information.
CFR member Max Boot is now a foreign policy adviser to Marco Rubio.
Examine Rubio’s foreign policy positions. Are they in the best interests of the republic?
“She was promoted to that position from being Vice President nine days after Ted Cruz was elected to the United States Senate.”
Thank you! I’ve been wondering about the timeline of her career path, and how/if it related to Ted’s career path. Just as I suspected.
Yep, Mrs. Heidi Cruz looks at herself as Mrs. Hillary Clinton....
All interesting stuff. I’m a Cruz supporter, but this is very interesting.
On the good side, this shows that she is presumably very knowledgeable on international trade and finance, and energy, and both national and international politics. Maybe she should be running for president.
It is a reminder that while Cruz is known for his work before the Supreme Court, that he and she are more seasoned and more broadly knowledgeable than people might think.
I’m not paranoid about these connections, but it is good to have this out in the open. And Cruz’s faux pas with TPA was wrong, and while I enjoyed his recovery at McConnell’s expense, the fact remains that he had to have known what he was doing and what it meant. He himself explained the whole “show vote” concept very clearly.
Cruz has been a constitutionalist his entire life, and while he and she were involved in Bush’s White House, he eventually made an enemy by getting in GW’s way when he sought to defer to the UN, for example, over Texas law.
So while I think Cruz is head and shoulders above any other candidate I’ve seen in decades, he is not perfect (TPA and H1b for example) and will have to be held to account just like anyone.
Was more interested in this info until I listened to the video at the link which is anti fracking. So we are supporting Democratic talking points..franking has been linked to so many health issues...A site that promotes this fairy tale may be promoting others. I was hoping for a balanced analysis since Cruz’s North American Union position worries me but this lack credibility.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/g161/top-10-myths-about-natural-gas-drilling-6386593/
Great article and post. Thanks!
Oh my goodness, you are going to be assailed by the cruzbots!
Being on the Council on Foreign Relations proves she’s very connected. That means Cruz is a fraud.
Shocked?
Not at all.
Surprised?
Yes; Surprised that it's not worse!
OUTSTANDING! Thank you so much, gg.
Awesome find and post
Cruz is a fraud
Just some things that I see that proves that:
1.Cruz would support Rubio over Trump
2.Cruz voted for the Corker bill that allows Iran to build nukes
3. Cruz pushed for TPA
4. Cruz hasn’t said anything against China nor Mexico
5. caught in many lies as when lying about Carson and stealing iowa
6. this is a charlatan ,a sleazy sneaky do anything say anything lying weasel
and more
Mrs. Cruz has an MBA. She is not a lawyer. When the author of a hit piece gets such a basic fact wrong, they bring into question the accuracy of the entire article.