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Meet Ted Cruz's top fundraiser: his wife
CNN Politics ^ | August 21, 2015 | Theodore Schleifer

Posted on 08/21/2015 8:57:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Olive Branch, Mississippi (CNN)—Ted Cruz gushes about his wife, Heidi, on the campaign trail, telling an audience here that she is "beautiful, brilliant and my very best friend in the whole wide world."

She's also something else: The best fundraiser in the Republican presidential candidate's corner.

The senator's wife, a top executive at Goldman Sachs who is taking a leave to work at campaign headquarters, is effectively leading her husband's fundraising operation, running some weekly finance calls and pushing major donors to give the maximum they're allowed under federal law.

It's a far cry from the caricatured profile of the behind-the-scenes wife, posing for photos on stage and then receding quickly behind it. Heidi Cruz, senior campaign aides say, has been intimately involved in the process of raising the $14 million that Ted Cruz brags about on the stump, often while standing alongside the woman who made that haul possible.

Top Cruz advisers and friends describe her as a competitive fundraising dynamo, unwilling to leave each night without completing her call sheet and determined to use the Rolodex and business know-how she built as a Wall Street investor....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Texas; Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2016cruz; 2016election; cruz; cruzfundraising; cruzwife; donate; election2016; fundraising; heidicruz; tedcruz; texas
A classy, smart first lady again?
1 posted on 08/21/2015 8:57:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just visited Olive Branch MS. Had never been there in my life.

It’s a nice place. Appears to be where folks who work in Memphis live. Memphis is not a place I’d want to live either.


2 posted on 08/21/2015 8:59:24 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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Besides getting Cruz elected, it would be so nice to see a classy lady there too instead of the black-hearted narcissist control freak Moochelle.


3 posted on 08/21/2015 9:01:41 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They almost look like they could be siblings.

4 posted on 08/21/2015 9:20:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope so!


5 posted on 08/21/2015 9:22:36 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure the Cruz haters will find something wrong with that.


6 posted on 08/21/2015 10:07:28 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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CNN? Cruz best friend his wife an executive on leave from Golman Sachs? Hmmmm. Using her employment know how to call and fundraise for Cruz? Hmmmmm.

Is this uniparty code to say “Cruz is one of you really. Wife is really one of you, Wink. Wink. “

“Cruz will have those huge increases in work visas coming your way soon all you uniparty corporate donors”

Cruz needs to quit betraying the American worker!


7 posted on 08/21/2015 10:42:12 AM PDT by amihow
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To: VinL; trebb; SoConPubbie; Josh Painter; American Constitutionalist; donna; lbryce; Jim Robinson; ...

Ping!!


8 posted on 08/21/2015 5:01:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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It would sure be nice. Two cute little girls in the White House again would be fun too.


9 posted on 08/21/2015 5:04:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: PROCON

[[Besides getting Cruz elected, it would be so nice to see a classy lady there too instead of the black-hearted narcissist control freak Moochelle.]]

Amen!!!


10 posted on 08/21/2015 6:08:13 PM PDT by Calpublican (The Republican Party has become corrupt!!!!!)
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