Ted Cruz - fighting for the little guy

[_MeDotOrg]

Everyone knows that Cruz announced his candidacy at the ironically named Liberty University, which banned the campus club for the Democratic Party. (I guess Ted will not be making the Nixon 'bring us together' speech.)

After his announcement, Ted went on his own listening tour.

Not to Iowa, but New York. Specifically the apartment of Rebekkah Mercer, daughter of hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. (If you're worried about the spouses having something to talk about, don't. Mercer's husband is a Managing Direct for Morgan Stanley, while Cruz's wife holds the same position at Goldman Sachs.)

Did I say apartment? Rebekka Mercer lives in Heritage at Trump Place, which for most people sounds pretty swanky. Not quite enough for Ms. Mercer:

Ms. Mercer, a daughter of hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer, and Mr. Mirochnikoff have spent the last 16 months and more than $28 million buying six adjoining units in Donald Trump's 41-story Heritage at Trump Place on the Upper West Side. Combined, according to floor plans, the units as currently configured could create a triplex with 17 bedrooms taking up most of floors 23 through 25. Floor space totals 13,962 square feet, more than twice the size of New York City's Gracie Mansion and about a quarter the size of the White House.

I mentioned that Ms. Mercer is the daughter of Robert Mercer, who is a hedge fund multi-billionaire. His company has been a target of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations:

According to the committee, RenTech (Renaissance Technologies) has used sophisticated financial maneuvers to lower the amount it's investors paid to the Internal Revenue Service by $6 billion over 14 years.

Here's what the ranking GOP committee member (and 2008 GOP candidate) had to say about Mr. Mercer:

Renaissance profited from this tax treatment by insisting on the fiction that it didn't really own the stocks it traded—that the banks that Renaissance dealt with, did. But, the fact is that Renaissance did all the trading, maintained full control over the account…and reaped all of the profits."

Having a potential $6 billion dollar tax bill makes Mercer a big Cruz supporter. Mr. Cruz wants to abolish the IRS.

Mr. Mercer is currently suing the maker of his custom 2 million dollar HO scale railroad. His household staff?

Former household staff members are suing a Head of the Harbor billionaire for stiffing them on wages because they failed to close doors or make sure hanging pictures were level at his palace on the Long Island Sound.

Robert Mercer, co-chief executive officer of Setauket hedge fund Renaissance, is accused of taking money from household staff’s for each time they failed to replace a shampoo bottles, properly close doors and other service tasks around the mansion.

“This is a social justice case,” said Troy Kessler, Melville-based attorney representing the staff. “Domestic, low-wage workers are frequently taken advantage of and this case it’s particularly egregious.”

Thanks to Citizens United, guys like Mercer are going to have a lot more influence in this country.

[_ldsfaqs]

1. Well, since liberals don't believe in liberty but Tryranny and Fascism, communism and socialism, all things contrary to liberaty, it's not surprising a private school that does believe in liberaty would ban such an anti-liberty group. No "irony" there, simply the cold hard truth.
Nothing wrong here...

2. So, people are buying property... ooo ahhhh, so evil to engage in Real Estate sales/buying.
Nothing wrong here....

3. From my small amount of experience with stocks and stock trading. The trading company does not in fact "own" the stocks they trade, the owners do.
Thus the trading company would only pay taxes on it's cut of the sales and management fees. Don't know who that so-called GOP candidate was, but he sounds stupid. Unless I'm missing something, but it seems normal from the facts presented.
Nothing wrong here...

4. It's a common conservative/libertarian ideology to abolish the Unconsitutional IRS.
Nothing wrong here....

5. I don't know, if you're hired to do a job and you don't do it right or well, and it's in your contract that there could be costs involved, sounds normal to me. I've had several jobs before that there were "costs" for one thing or another that could be deducted from your pay.
Could be some wrong here, but more than likely it's just more liberal entitlement.
But either way, the co-chief of a particular hedge fund owned by someone else, isn't really anything to do with the persons in question.
Again, nothing wrong here.....

Try again with your next liberal lying attack job.....

[_MeDotOrg]

Don't know who that so-called GOP candidate was, but he sounds stupid. Unless I'm missing something, but it seems normal from the facts presented.

As it said in the original post, that was Senator John McCain.

[_ldsfaqs]

Well, he is a bit stupid.... so, guess not surprised.

[_MeDotOrg]

ldsfaqs, you keep calling liberals liars. What did I say that was factually incorrect?

[_ludwigm]

ldsfaqs, you keep calling liberals liars. What did I say that was factually incorrect?

He calls everybody a liar. Anything You said doesn't count. You are a liar.

Another stupid question? (Why do You answer that troll?)

[_ldsfaqs]

ldsfaqs, you keep calling liberals liars. What did I say that was factually incorrect?

I just wrote a fairly detailed post as to have you were misrepresenting the facts, thus lying.

Don't know why the liberal and anti-mormon thinks that simply because he uses "some" facts to support his views, that that is the same as telling the FULL fact and truth to get at the actual truth. It's simply not. Using a little truth to lie is still lying.

[_MeDotOrg]

Let's just take one of your objections:

liberals don't believe in liberty but Tryranny and Fascism, communism and socialism, all things contrary to liberaty, it's not surprising a private school that does believe in liberaty would ban such an anti-liberty group.

First of all, 'liberals' weren't banned at the school, the club for the Democratic Party was.

Franklin Roosevelt, led the war against fascism. Harry Truman was president during the war with Korea. Kennedy okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion, as well as the blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis. The Vietnam War saw it's greatest expansion during the Johnson Administration. All these Presidents would be considered liberals, especially by today's standards. And they all were Democrats.

So history provides ample evidence that directly contradicts your statement that liberals believe in Tyranny, Fascism and Communism.

[_ldsfaqs]

Let's just take one of your objections:

liberals don't believe in liberty but Tryranny and Fascism, communism and socialism, all things contrary to liberaty, it's not surprising a private school that does believe in liberaty would ban such an anti-liberty group.

First of all, 'liberals' weren't banned at the school, the club for the Democratic Party was.

Franklin Roosevelt, led the war against fascism. Harry Truman was president during the war with Korea. Kennedy okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion, as well as the blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis. The Vietnam War saw it's greatest expansion during the Johnson Administration. All these Presidents would be considered liberals, especially by today's standards. And they all were Democrats.

So history provides ample evidence that directly contradicts your statement that liberals believe in Tyranny, Fascism and Communism.

Actually, most Democratic presidents of the past (especially JFK) would today be considered Bush Right Wingers. While Democrats of the past has "some" tendacy's toward leftism, some real bad, most were actually much more conservative than they are today.
Today's Democratic party in the past were communists/socialists that were the fringe and mostly shunned of America.
Since the 60's the communists worked to start taking over the contry from within, instead of Bombings etc. like Bill Ayers, they switched to changing it gradually by infiltrating government and education, so we now have the first communist President.

I'm talking about today's Democratic party, not that of the past, thus history doesn't contradict my statement at all.

[_canpakes]

Since the 60's the communists worked to start taking over the contry from within, instead of Bombings etc. like Bill Ayers, they switched to changing it gradually by infiltrating government and education, so we now have the first communist President.

I'm talking about today's Democratic party, not that of the past, thus history doesn't contradict my statement at all.

I've been waiting for over 6 years now to hear what makes Obama a 'communist' president. No one seems able to explain it.