Ted Cruz lost a sister to drug addiction. She was living in Darby at the time of her death, but had committed multiple retail thefts around the area including in Ridley and Haverford. Another sad story of a life ruined to drugs. Here's an article detailing Cruz' upbringing and the unfortunate deterioration of his sister. From this article alone, we already no more about Cruz and his background than we have learned about obama to this day...


Smiling shyly for the camera, her arm gently cradling her little brother, this is the tragic sister about whom Senator Ted Cruz has never publicly spoken until now.
Since announcing his candidacy in March, Sen Cruz has made much of his family's triumphs over adversities.

His Cuban father's struggle against and escape from Castro; his 'pioneering' mother who came from a strict Irish Italian Catholic family but went onto 'break glass ceilings all over the place' as a computer programmer; and his own childhood as the son of a turbulent marriage scarred by alcohol abuse and bankruptcy.

But there is one story of adversity that remained untold. It is the story of the senator's half-sister, Miriam, pictured here for the first time, neatly turned out in her purple dress photographed alongside her sister Roxana, right, and brother Ted, center. Read more here...