Ted Cruz’ s Mystery Mega-Donor Is A Thoughtless Idiot

What kind of person actually supports Ted Cruz?

Source: Jamelle Bouie via Flickr.com
Source: Jamelle Bouie via Flickr.com

Ted Cruz doesn’t have a lot of donors. He went the route of finding a few of the super rich to fund his campaign for the presidency, and the donor he will be the most beholdin’ to is Ben Nash, the CEO of PCS Wireless. Mr. Nash made a $250,000 donation to the “Stand For Principle” PAC, a fund supporting Ted Cruz.

Mr. Nash’s spokesperson stated:

“Senator Ted Cruz has been a strong supporter of Jewish issues, and this was the basis for the donation.”

It is not the first time someone has made a donation to Ted Cruz using this rationale. Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, the self-described “prominent NYC hotel owners,” donated funding for a fireside chat, plus $2,700, taking the same position. Then the LGBT community found out. Reisner and Weiderpass are openly gay, and own the hotel at the Fire Island Pines, described as a gay utopia. Once their support for Cruz became public, the hotel was boycotted and the organization “Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS” canceled their “Broadway Bares Solo Strips” benefit, scheduled to open at Reisner’s and Weiderpass’ Fire Island Pines hotel.

“I have never considered that all of our many supporters would ever vote monolithically,” executive director of Broadway Cares, Tom Viola, wrote on his Facebook page. “But when any politician publicly holds so many of us in contempt… we cannot be misunderstood as standing with him/her.”

In his article, “The Reisner/Weiderpass Scandal Reaches New Depths,” J. Bryan Lowder puts the behavior in context. He writes:

“…Reisner and Weiderpass don’t deserve a pass. Supporting Ted Cruz isn’t a matter of weighing his hawkish Iran views against his backward anti-gay views, because they are but two aspects of a consistent, conservative ideology that also includes climate denial, allowing the wealth gap to increase, and dismantling the social safety net. You can’t pull the one thread you like out of the tapestry; the whole thing unravels.”

Context matters. How many times has the United States supported some horrific petty dictator to gain a specific goal, only to have the whole thing blow up in our faces? While support of the Israeli people is admirable, support of the Israeli government is questionable. Ben Nash’s mega donation to Ted Cruz is an effort to  buy support for Israel, and with Ted Cruz in office, Prime Minister Netanyahu could get away with anything. (Remember the strange bacon-wrapped-around-the-rifle-barrel video?)


The big picture must be considered. When a single action does massive damage to others, it cannot be justified with the rationale, I’m focused on one thing, not the whole package. That kind of narrow-minded thinking only leads to unintended consequences, and can hurt the people around you. In spite of of his great wealth, Ben Nash has evolved into an idiot!

Featured image courtesy of Jamelle Bouie via Flickr.com

Keith is also a freelance writer. He has written an alternative physics book titled the Ultra-Space Field Theory, and 2 sci-fi novels. Keith has been following politics, and political promises, for the last forty years. He gave up his car, preferring to bicycle and use public transport. Keith enjoys yoga, mini adventures, spirituality, and chocolate ice cream.