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Can anyone remember back as far as July at the republican convention when he said "I won't endorse anyone that bashes my family especially my wife Heidi." Here it is January and he hasn't only endorsed Trump he is part of his administration. He sold his christian conservative values right down the toilet. Donald Trump responded even if he did endorse me i wouldn't accept his endorsement.
This isn't the only time his ethics have been brought into play. There was questions about his funding way in his 2012 senate campaign. I found an article date from october of 2013 talking about this.
Texas republican senator Ted Cruz potentially violated ethics rules by failing to publically disclose his financial relationship with a Carribean based holding company during his 2012 senate campaign documents show. The relationship was initiated with a $6,000 dollar investment Cruz made more than a decade ago in a fund ran by a college roomate.
When Cruz reported the relationship in 2013 he failed to comply with senate rules requiring full identification of the holding company and its location triggering an inquiry by senate select committee on ethics staff and a second amendmed disclosure. Cruz later said he was working to disclose the information.
Then he violated federal law when he didn't report a 1 million dollar loan he had with Goldman Sachs. 52 USC 30104 says that The committee of a federal canidate must disclose on and report loans they have filed or guaranteed. He also said he would reamend paper work or do what was needed to fix that. Pretty much every campaign he has ever run has come under scrutiny for violating some kind of ethical code.
On april 25 2016 texas democrats filed a complaint against Cruz with the federal election commision for violating campaign fundraising laws. Keet Lewis who was Cruz for president national co chair made a statement if you have hit your max we have tables over there that are unlimited. The campaign disregarded limits set by law. It was in regards to a Cruz Stand for Truth Pac.
On january 31st 2016 Paul Pate who is also a republican in Iowa came out and blasted Cruz over campaign mailers he sent out. Cruz said he wouldn't make an apology for using every tool possible to try to get people out to vote. Pate came out and said "Today i was shown a piece of literature from the Cuz for president campaign that misrepresents the role of my office, and worse, misrepresents Iowa election laws."
It isn't possible to say you won't endorse someone then join the administration and say you havn't violated anything ethically.
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