Ted Cruz

Republican U.S. Senator from Texas
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Leadership & Staff

Steve Chartan Sen. Ted Cruz chief of staff
• Position
Kevin Kookogey President and Founder, The Advancing Church
• Tennessee campaign chairman (past)
Tom Jones AAF head
• Position
Amanda Carpenter Never Trump conservative
• communications director (past)
Matthew Cooksey Public Policy Analyst/Lobbyist, Texas Alliance for Life
• Intern ('17)
Jason Miller Former Managing Director, Teneo Strategy; Republican politcal operative; briefly designated as President Trump's Director of White House Communications
• Position
Sean J Cooksey Trump nominee to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission (October 28 2020)
• Deputy Counsel (past)
Matthew B Shipley Trump nominee to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness)
• Military Legislative Assistant (past)
Emily Miller Former FDA spokesperson, former OAN reporter and Communications Director to former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay
• Campaign spokesperson, communications director (past)
Nick Muzin Canadian-born Jewish Republican political strategist and a paid foreign agent for Qatar
• Deputy Chief of Staff (Jul '14→?)

Business Positions

Google Inc. American multinational technology company; specializes in Internet-related services, products
• lobbyist (past)
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Philadelphia based law firm and one of the largest in D.C., practicing business and finance, international, commercial litigation, labor and employment law, environmental, tax, and estate planning
• lawyer (past)

Board Memberships

Hispanic Alliance for Prosperity Institute now-defunct group was run by corporate lobbyists to mobilize grassroots support for industry priorities, primarily on energy, health care, and telecom issues.
• Board Member (past)

Positions

Jobs, Growth and Freedom Fund Ted Cruz PAC
• founder
Ted Cruz Victory Committee Ted Cruz's joint fundraising PAC
• founder
The University of Texas School of Law
• Adjunct Professor, U.S. Supreme Court Litigation ('04→'09)
Bush Cheney 2000
• Bush v. Gore legal team ('00)

In the office of

Chip Roy US Representative from Texas
• chief of staff (past)
John Boehner Republican US Representative from Ohio; majority leader
• Counsel ('98→?)
Chief Justice William Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Law clerk

Government Positions

Federal Trade Commission federal consumer protection agency, enforces U.S. antitrust law
• Director, Office of Policy Planning (Jun '01→Jan '03)
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
• Position
Senate Judiciary Committee
• Position
US Department of Justice Primary federal criminal investigation and enforcement agency
• Associate Deputy Attorney General
Office of the Solicitor General of Texas
• Solicitor General

Donors

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Senate Conservatives Fund PAC aligned with Ted Cruz
• Donation · 385,103 USD ('12)
ExxonMobil Oil and gas exploration, production, and marketing
• Campaign · 20,000 USD ('12)
Earl P Holt III St. Louis, Missouri radio talk show host
• Donation · 2,600 USD ('13→'14)
Roma B Witcoff Retired - Phoenix
• 12 contributions · 1,770 USD (Aug 4 '15→Apr 29 '16)
Alan Helfman Car Dealership Owner
• Donation/Grant · 1,000 USD (Sep 6 '18)
Jeff Wilke Chief executive of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon; has announced he will retire in 2021 at age 53
• 1 contribution · 500 USD (Apr 30 '16)
Mortimer D A Sackler Board Member, Purdue Pharma
• 1 contribution · 250 USD (Feb 2 '16)
William S Simon Former president and CEO of Walmart U.S.
• 2 contributions · 200 USD (Aug 1 '15→Aug 25 '15)
Ken Blackwell Former Mayor of Cincinnati and Ohio Secretary of State
• 1 contribution · 100 USD (Feb 2 '16)
Jeanne L Phillips SVP, Hunt Consolidated
• 2 contributions · 30 USD (Dec 15 '15→Apr 23 '16)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Ted Cruz Republican U.S. Senator from Texas
• 1 contribution · 545,000 USD (Mar 31 '15)
Maverick PAC USA
• 2 contributions · 2,100 USD ('07→Oct 11 '08)
George W Bush 43rd US president, ex-governor of Texas, son of George H W Bush
• 2 contributions · 2,000 USD ('03→Apr 6 '04)
Tarrant County Republican Victory Fund
• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD (Feb 1 '13)
Fred Dalton Thompson US Senator from Tennessee
• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('07)
John Cornyn Republican US Senator from Texas
• 1 contribution · 500 USD ('01)
Legacy Political Fund
• 6 contributions · 500 USD ('09→Jul 21 '10)
Kay Bailey Hutchison Permanent Representative to NATO. former US Senator from Texas
• 1 contribution · 500 USD ('06)

Campaign Donors

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Ted Cruz Republican U.S. Senator from Texas
• 1 contribution · 545,000 USD (Mar 31 '15)
Randy Kendrick GOP Fundraiser
• 27 contributions · 38,250 USD ('11→Jul 2 '16)
William L Holmes Self Employed/Oil And Gas
• 11 contributions · 37,100 USD (Sep 29 '11→May 22 '15)
Kyle Stallings Founder and CEO of Desert Royalty Company
• 16 contributions · 37,000 USD (Nov 30 '11→Jul 2 '16)
Monty Bennett CEO, Ashford Hospitality Trust
• 13 contributions · 37,000 USD (Sep 1 '11→Jul 2 '16)
Windi Grimes Philanthropist & wife of David Grimes (Grimes Energy)
• 19 contributions · 34,950 USD ('11→Jul 2 '16)
John G Nolan Now Specialties Inc
• 13 contributions · 34,500 USD (Aug 26 '11→Apr 30 '15)
Scott Banister Technology entrepreneur and investor; a founder of IronPort, a Web security appliance provider
• 20 contributions · 33,312 USD (Jul 28 '11→Jul 2 '16)
Andy Puzder CEO, CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's brands
• 13 contributions · 32,400 USD (Dec 31 '15→Jul 2 '16)
Richard Parrillo United Auto Insurance Company
• 9 contributions · 32,400 USD (Sep 3 '15→Jul 2 '16)

Holdings

Stand for Principle PAC Ted Cruz 2016 super PAC
• Super PAC ('14→?)
Keep the Promise PAC Ted Cruz 2016 SuperPAC
• Super PAC
Keep the Promise I/Make America Number 1 Ted Cruz and Donald Trump 2016 SuperPAC
• Super PAC
Keep the Promise III Ted Cruz 2016 SuperPAC
• Super PAC
Keep the Promise II pro-Ted Cruz super PAC
• Super PAC

Memberships

US Senate upper house of the United States Congress
• Senator (Jan 3 '13→Jan 3 '25)
Republican Party The U.S. Republican Party
• Member

Family

Rafael Cruz radical Christian nationalist father of Sen. Ted Cruz
• father
Heidi Nelson Cruz Vice President, Goldman Sachs (currently on unpaid leave) | Wife of Ted Cruz
• Wife

Services & Transactions

Goldman Sachs Wall Street investment banking, securities and investment management firm
• Service/Transaction · 500,000 USD*
Regnery Publishing DC-based conservative book publisher
• book publisher
Beacon Global Strategies LLC
• a foreign policy adviser

Schools

Harvard Law School
• School
Princeton University Ivy League University in Princeton, New Jersey
• School

Social

Miscellaneous Relationships

Alan Dershowitz High-profile criminal defense attorney
• Law school professor
Joe Bastardi Former Weather Channel meteorologist, climate-change skeptic
• storm response advisor (Feb '21→?)
Parler Right wing social networking platform
• Affiliation
Americans for Prosperity David and Charles Koch political advocacy group
• very happy with
Living Water International Helping communities acquire water
• Affiliation
Ted Cruz
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Basic Info

Types Person, Political Candidate, Elected Representative, Public Official
Gender Male
Birthday Dec 22 '70
Website https://www.cruz.senate.gov
Aliases R Ted Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz

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