Does anyone find if odd that Ted Cruz's mom is nowhere to be found??

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With all this commotion about his citizenship, and questions about whether his mother renounced her own US citizenship, does anyone find it odd there is not one current quote from her regarding this issue? Wouldn't a mother want to defend her son?

I find it strange there is not one media interview of her. Is she alive?

[Dan]

1. Would you

Claim him?

[TexasProgresive]

2. "More Cruz family drama: Mother’s first husband is an ex-pat Texan in London"

I don't know why she is hiding but this is interesting. I always knew Carnival was a bastard but I didn't know it might be literal.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article54993300.html
WASHINGTON

On Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate, his mother is listed as Eleanor Darragh Wilson, using the last name of her first husband, Alan Wilson. The Fort Worth native and long-time resident of London, Wilson is now an unwitting player in the drama that surrounds Cruz’s family.

Wilson, who has never previously spoken about his past with the news media, told McClatchy in a telephone interview from London that he did not realize he was connected to the U.S. Texas senator, however indirect. He didn’t realize that his first wife, Eleanor, whose maiden name is Darragh, had such a well-known son, whose citizenship is at issue in the presidential campaign, or that “Wilson” is on the birth certificate.

“I’ll be darned,” said Wilson, who speaks in a soft tone with traces of his Texas origins. “No kidding. That is Eleanor’s son? I had no idea.” He said he knew that she “had married a man named Cruz” but little else and had not made the connection to the presidential candidate.

Cruz’s mother is at the center of an explosive issue in the GOP presidential primary, whether the Texas senator is eligible to be president. During Thursday night’s GOP debate, Cruz and New York billionaire Donald Trump battled over Cruz’s claim that he’s a “natural born” citizen, a requirement in the Constitution for any president.

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3. This whole thing is fishy...somebody is trying to hide something.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. And for some reason Ted does not want to go by his first name:

Rafael Edward Cruz.

I don't hear him speaking up as a Hispanic very much....or did I miss something?

[ebayfool]

13. Mom used her ex-husbands last name for another child that died as an infant.

Why she kept using it through the births of 2 children is curious.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article54995180.html

snips -

Wilson, floored to learn that he was mentioned in Cruz’s book, said, in a bombshell of his own, that the account is not accurate: He was not the father of the baby.

“We were divorced and she was living on her own,” said Wilson. He said that Eleanor asked him if she could use his last name on the birth certificate. When Michael Wilson later died, he said, “I hadn’t even met the baby.”

Alan Wilson said he and Eleanor Wilson were being treated in the same hospital when she was pregnant when a nurse told his “his wife” was there — startling the Fort Worthian. “I didn’t know she was pregnant. We were definitely divorced.”

Told that Eleanor had used his last name on Ted Cruz’s birth certificate, Wilson said, “I see. That’s interesting.” Pressed to say how he felt about it, he said, “I don’t have any feelings about it.” He later wondered, “Why did she do that? Maybe she’s adopting that name for no reason.”

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14. "Curiouser" and "curioser"

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. Not related, but I was reminded by your post: has ANYONE ever heard Todd Palin's voice?

And yes, I'd love to track down Ted's mom and hear more about young Ted's citizenship.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. There is no question about whether Cruz's mother renounced her citizenship

she moved back to the USA 40 years ago and has lived there since. People who renounce US citizenship aren't allowed to enter the US for longer than 90 days in a one-year period (I think); she would've been deported by now.

[grasswire]

6. interesting!

You ought to make this an OP so it will be picked up on google more easily.

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7. In the 70's and 80's, people did not need a US passport to cross the US/Canada border...

...I know because I never showed one when I crossed it multiple times at Niagara Falls and Peace Arch BC. And neither did my parents. All they were required to show was their driver's licenses. So hypothetically, my parents could have renounced their US citizenship, and the border agents would have no knowledge of that.

[laundry_queen]

11. Not needing a passport was up until 9/11 (and a bit after too)

We used to cross all the time for ski trips or shopping trips in the early to late 90's and early 00's (I did it at the BC/Washington Border, the BC/Idaho border, the Alberta/Montana border, the Saskatchewan/North Dakota border and the Manitoba/Minnesota border).

Let's be real...most of the time when we were asked why we were crossing the border...we'd say why and we'd just be waved through. No one even checked our ID, especially when we traveled as a family. Oh heck, even the one time, when my brother and I were teens (and I was going through my big hair, short skirt, tons of make up phase), we traveled through the night with my dad to try to make it to Minnesota in time for my brother's all-star hockey tournament (my mom was on a business trip in Houston and would fly in the next day to Minneapolis) and keep in mind my dad is a scary looking dude...just mean looking, lots of facial hair, and we had been traveling all night. Crossing the border in the middle of nowhere Saskatchewan/ND, some scraggly scary guy and 2 teenagers....with a hockey bag tied to the top of the car...LOL. "where are you headed?" "The kid's got a hockey tournament in Minneapolis starting tomorrow." "okay. Well, good luck at your tournament!" and he waved us through. That was it.

Anyway. Yes. It would've been easy to cross the border sans passport back then.

[SwankyXomb]

8. She's living somewhere in Houston

possibly with Ted and the family. Republicans are pretty good about keeping family members with embarrassing stories away from the press. I mean, Bachmann went on and on about her foster kids, but we never heard from any of them.

[SDjack]

9. Hummm. Ted is probably learning more about his family than he

wanted to know. May take DNA analyses to sort out relationships. What if his father is famous, beloved Canadian politician, such a Pierre Trudeau? Then, we could get into deeper water when Ted defends the assignment of fatherhood. Is it the biological father or the husband of the mother at the instant of birth? Anyway, should be as fascinating for Ted as for the rest of us.

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. Here is a look at the 'family' commercial he filmed.

His mother gives him the stank eye more than once especially when he talks about praying. She knows he is a fool.

If she wrote a menoir, it would sell a bazillion copies.