Republican Presidential Candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will give a speech in San Luis Obispo County, organized by the Republican Party of SLO, at 9 a.m. Monday, June 22. Tickets are a minimum $25 donation per person and available online at: www.rpslo.org.
Cruz will speak at The Edwards Barn, 1095 Pomeroy St., Nipomo. Coffee and pastries provided. Cruz’ appearance is the first in the RPSLO’s Presidential Speaker Series. All of the growing Republican field of candidates have been invited to visit and speak here.
According to Wikipedia, Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, 44, was born in Calgary, Can., to a Cuban immigrant father and an American mother.
A Harvard Law grad, Cruz is a Constitutional lawyer who has written some 80 briefs to the Supreme Court, clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was the first Hispanic American to clerk for a chief justice.
Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, and as domestic policy adviser on the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000.
From 2004-09, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation as an adjunct professor in the University of Texas School of Law.
Senator Cruz is married to Heidi Nelson Cruz, who was born in San Luis Obispo and graduated from Valley View Adventist Academy in Arroyo Grande. The couple has two young daughters, Caroline and Catherine.