Oh Ted, Inadvertent Kiss My Big Blue Butt
Get a load of this. Ted Cruz may have an ethics violation upcoming.
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz potentially violated ethics rules by failing to publicly disclose his financial relationship with a Caribbean-based holding company during the 2012 campaign, a review of financial disclosure and company documents by TIME shows. The relationship originated with a $6,000 investment Cruz made more than a decade ago in a Jamaican private equity firm founded by his college roommate.
And then …
Cruz told TIME Thursday that the initial failure to report the financial relationship was an oversight that he corrected last May on his own initiative in his first filing after his election to the Senate. “It was an omission that was inadvertent,” Cruz said.
Inadvertent? How come when Ted screws up it’s inadvertent but when anyone else screws up it’s malicious and unAmerican?
Ooh, JJ! Can I send that jpg to my son? He just got back to work after being furloughed. I think he needs a laugh.
(He works for a contractor, so no backpay.)
1One wonders about the current value of that $6,000 investment – is it like Mitt Romney’s tax-free IRA donations of $6000/year that suddenly became worth millions of dollars after they were safely sheltered?
2Look at this description of what Cruz “invested” in. Sounds rather socialist to me. Both David Panton and Caribbean Equity Partners (CEP) are mentioned.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090128/business/business5.html
3Oops. I think what Ted invested in was a tradeoff with the Koch brothers in hopes that he could be in the lineup for the GOP’s presidential candidate play party.
4Nope. Jamaican company. Gotta be some ganja. Probably the world’s best, but heck, still criminal.
5I read the article at time. One of calgary cruz’s excuses was that he had forgotten about the $75,000.00 promissory note. Now, y’all tell me who the heck forgets about 75k dollars??
6That was my question…how many of us are so rich that we’d forget someone owed us $75,000 + interest (because it’s earning interest, he said or somebody said.) I dunno about you, but well before a tenth of that I’d remember who owed me money and who I owed money to.
Of course, I’m not an adopted Koch.
I also note his wife is at Goldman Sachs. Hmmm.
7Stinks to high heaven. Hope it gets him jail time. We could all do with a little less Cruz.
8At least he didn’t blame the SEC for losing paperwork like dumb bass dubya. McCain couldn’t remember how many homes he owns,Willard couldn’t remember he left his dog on top of the car,Condi Rice couldn’t figure out how hijackers could hijack planes and fly them into buildings when she was holding the PDB that stated the planes would be hijacked and flown into buildings. Elephants are supposedly known for running around remembering things. Rethugs,not so much.
9A paltry $75 thousand you say? Ah, yes, pocket change, petty cash. I s’pose if one has a whole sh– whoops, I meant to say truck — load of cash, it’s just a pittance, easily forgotten. I personally wouldn’t know.
10Take a look at the $75,000 “promissory note”, the link is at the Time article. It appears to be hand dated “November”.
That is all. “November”, no date , no year….
I might do it differently for 75 large; then again, I’m not a Rafael Edward ” Calgary” Cruz with a Harvard Law Juris Doctor. I also never worked for the Boosh maladministarctuion.
11Oh, JJ, how I WISH I could say what I really feel about Teddy w/out being banned!! I have a feeling that a lot of you have the same kinda words to describe this pompous bozo!
12“Inadvertent” is a liar’s favorite go-to word.
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