Ted Cruz’ Mom was a Canadian in 1974
I, for one, am glad to have Ted Cruz ruled ineligible to be President. He is creepy and probably a secret Cuban Communist. While I’d prefer he was ruled out based on his whack-ass politics, I’ll accept his being ruled out via crazy internet lynch mob.
Another election official, called a returning officer, then reviewed the list. The statute states that the returning officer could not certify the document if he believed the list contained the name of any person who shouldn’t be included. The document obtained by TPM was certified in Calgary by a returning officer.
In 2013, a Canadian elections official told TPM that in the process of compiling the list, enumerators asked people to affirm that they were Canadian citizens.
“So when they knock on doors, they ask them: are you Canadian citizens, are you 18 years of age or older, and are you a resident in this facility and how long have you been living here?” Drew Westwater, the director of election operations and communications for Elections Alberta, told TPM. “If they meet all that criteria then they add them to the list, take their name and addresses and anyone else who’s living there. And they ask, is anyone else living here a Canadian citizen 18 years of age or older? And if they are, then they take their names from them at the door. And that’s the way it worked in those days.”
The Raphael and Eleanor Cruz listed on the document clearly appear to be Cruz’s parents. The spelling of Cruz’s father’s name is anglicized to “Raphael” rather than the correct spelling “Rafael” and his occupation is listed as self-employed; at the time, the Cruzes worked in the oil industry running a seismic data-processing business.
I want Cruz to be nominated. He could be the Republican McGovern.
There is no analogous defeat in US political history. Who did Saddam Husein run against in his last election?
And yet, putting my partisanship aside, I don’t want someone like Cruz to be even that close to being President.
No Cruz = Trump nomination, apocalypse
So which more electable Republican would you prefer to be nominated?
I’d like to see both major parties nominate people who could conceivably be the President of the United States, and a general election fought on policy differences rather than personalities.
I know, I’m nuts.
All the Republican candidates have the same heavy tax-cuts-fo- the-rich package, and the same appetite for war, so they are all equally inconceivable as President.
But if I’m an uneducated angry racist rube, voting republican will make me wealthy lol
So if she was Canadian, then when exactly did she give up he US citizenship?
And if she had given it up, where does that leave Rafael?
If she gave up her citizenship, does that make the entire family illegals?
This is interesting (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship ):
“However, the consensus against dual nationality began to erode due to changes in social mores and attitudes. By the late 20th century it was becoming gradually accepted again.[2] Many states were lifting restrictions on dual citizenship. For example, the British Nationality Act 1948 removed restrictions on dual citizenship in the United Kingdom, the 1967 Afroyim v. Rusk ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited the U.S. government from involuntarily stripping citizenship from Americans over dual citizenship, and the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1976, removed restrictions on dual citizenship in Canada. The number of states allowing multiple citizenship further increased after a treaty in Europe requiring signatories to limit dual citizenship lapsed in the 1990s, and countries with high emigration rates began permitting it to maintain links with their respective diasporas.[4]”
Apparently anyone legally voting in Canada PRIOR to 1976 must have renounced all other citizenships. So…
When was Cruz born? When did his mother purportedly vote???
Ted Cruz was born in 1970