“Voters do not like when you attack someone’s family,” said Cruz senior adviser Rick Tyler. Heidi Cruz’s links to Goldman, where she has taken a leave of absence as managing director of the private wealth management office in Houston, are beginning to distract from her husband’s populist message as a crusader against the moneyed interests of Wall Street and Washington. Bush White House and a high-paying job at investment giant Goldman Sachs, where her Wall Street savvy has made her a fundraising dynamo.īut also perhaps with the exception of former President Clinton, no other political spouse faces as much risk of turning from asset to liability. Her impressive resume includes a master’s in business administration from Harvard, a stint in the George W. Ted Cruz’s hard edges and a deep Christian faith, the California-born Heidi Cruz, 43, is an accomplished executive and political adviser - more in the model of Democrats like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton than Republicans like Laura Bush.
It also incorporates “cultural proficiency, diversity, global awareness and inclusivity into all facets” of the curriculum.Except for perhaps Bill Clinton, no candidate spouse in the 2016 presidential campaign has proved as productive and effective as Heidi Cruz.īeyond the mother-of-two charm that softens Sen. John’s, as an institution, must be antiracist and eliminate racism of any type - including institutional racism - within our school community and beyond,” wrote Mark Desjardins, then the school’s headmaster, and John Moody, the chairman of the board of trustees.Ī statement on community and inclusion, approved by the board in 2018, says the school ensures “cultural intelligence and proficiency” for all community members. Floyd’s neck under his knee, setting off protests across the country, school leaders wrote to the community about their approach. In June 2020, shortly after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white police officer who pinned Mr. And leaders there have advocated a similar antiracist stance. Cruz’s daughters are students, is also an elite institution, with annual tuition topping $32,000, according to its website.
Cruz held up book after book that he described as assigned reading at the school and grilled Judge Jackson about whether she endorsed their messages. Cruz said during the hearing that the curriculum of Georgetown Day, an expensive private school in Northwest Washington where Judge Jackson is one of 23 members of the board of trustees, was “filled and overflowing with critical race theory.” Critical race theory is an academic concept that Republicans have increasingly used as a vague, catchall term to criticize how educators infuse ideas about racism and inequality into curriculum.įlanked on Tuesday by a blown-up page from “Antiracist Baby,” by Ibram X. But leaders at the private school in Houston where the senator sends his two daughters have articulated a similar commitment. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas helped lead the Republican charge against antiracism efforts at a private school in Washington during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing this week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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