Cruz record refutes left wing attacks

Daily Caller:

Although the left-wing press and Democratic former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson are busily trying to depict him as a fake Latino, Sen. Ted Cruz has long been involved with the Latino community. The Texas Republican, who won a Senate seat last November, helped found Harvard Law School’s Latino Law Review and worked with then-Gov. George W. Bush to reach out to Latinos in Texas.

The twenty-four-year-old Cruz — then going by “Rafael E. Cruz” — was listed as a “general editor” in the Latino Law Review’s inaugural issue in Fall 1994. The name appears to have been just his formal name. “Students knew him as ‘Ted,’” Alan Dershowitz, a professor of Cruz’s at Harvard, told TheDC.

The progressive Review’s inaugural issue included articles on “the rebellious influence of Cesar Chavez” by Obama mentor and Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree; an analysis of the treatment of Latinos in the criminal justice system by Reynaldo Anaya Valencia; a discussion of court interpreters by Utah judge Lynn W. Davis; a review of federal sentencing guidelines by federal judge Jose A. Cabranes; and a student note on a “Latino communitarian response to gang violence.”

Cruz’s involvement with the Latino community continued after law school. As Bush’s domestic policy advisor, Cruz helped to develop the Bush 2000 campaign strategy of “just showing up” in Latino neighborhoods that Republicans had previously neglected as part of a voter turnout operation.

“What it comes down to,” Cruz told The New York Times, “is communicating the message that George W. Bush believes everyone is part of the American dream and the model is really the Texas experience.”

Despite that record, Cruz has been attacked by Democrats, such as former Gov. Bill Richardson, who criticized Cruz for not backing amnesty for illegal immigrants, many of whom are Latino.

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The story repeats some of the other unhinged criticism of Ted Cruz.   The Hispanic criticism is from those who are Democrats first.  Liberals are frightened by Sen. Cruz's articulate arguments for conservative ideas.  He has pointed out the evils of liberalism and that is really scary for them.