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In reply to the discussion: D.C. Madam's Attorney Says Call Log Bombshell Could Upend 2016 Race [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Cruz graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and from Harvard Law School in 1995. Between 1999 and 2003, he was the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas, from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving, Solicitor General in Texas history. From 2004 to 2009, Cruz was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Then there is Kasich.
Kasich served nine terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 12th congressional district from 1983 to 2001.[5] His tenure in the House included 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee and six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee. He was a key figure in the passage of both welfare reform and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
He was a commentator on Fox News Channel, hosting Heartland with John Kasich from 2001 to 2007. He also worked as an investment banker, a managing director of Lehman Brothers' Columbus, Ohio, office.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasich
Bernie was also in D.C. in the appropriate period, but I don't see him as linked into the sort of network that would have tipped him off about the D.C. madam. Also it is hard for me to imagine Bernie spending the money or the time on something like that. He doesn't even bother to comb his hair some of the time. I don't think he has the ego for visiting a prostitute but I could be wrong.
The entire story could be bogus. May be that not a one of them is on that list but that this is an opportunity to create a stir anyway.