Storey ran an after-school programme under the banner of a conservative thinktank called the Free Enterprise Education Center (now the Free Enterprise Institute). In his early teens, Cruz was a member of the Constitutional Corroborators, part of a five-strong “unit” of high-achieving, politically minded students managed by Rolland Storey, a retired gas executive from Houston. Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.” Aspirations? World domination. “Well, my aspiration is to, I don’t know, be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio – you know, he was in Malibu Bikini Beach Shop? Well, other than that, take over the world. “Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?” he asks. Ted Cruz voices his goals in a video from 1988. It was apparently filmed in 1988, when he was a high school senior at Second Baptist School, a Bible-centric private school in Houston – long before he arrived in Washington pledging to upend the Republican establishment. That’s five goals checked off – one more to go.Ĭruz articulated his towering ambition less elegantly in a video that emerged on YouTube last month that combines schoolboy humour with Texas bravado. Ted would like to run for various political offices and eventually achieve a strong enough reputation and track record to run for – and win – President of the United States.”Īfter high school, Cruz went to Princeton (majoring in Public Policy), attended Harvard Law School, became a successful lawyer and was elected a US senator for Texas. “He then wants to pursue his real goal – a career in politics. From there he wants to attend law school (possibly Harvard) and achieve a successful law practice,” said a biographical note from around 1988 about the then 17-year-old. “Upon graduation Ted hopes to attend Princeton University and major in Political Science and Economics.
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