A commenter tipped me to this story that appears on a new San Antonio blog called Plaza de Armas. The bloggers are former investigative reporters for the San Antonio Express News and the Current. The gist of the story is that U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz, a well known attorney, is representing a Chinese conglomerate called Shandog Linglong in a major patent infringement case. I have copied the story from the Plaza de Armas blog.

The story appears in italics, below:

Many politicians are lawyers by trade, but politicians and lawyers operate under a sharply different set of standards. For example, in the legal world, where every defendant is deserving of representation, taking the case of a suspected domestic terrorist is just doing your job. In the political world, however, where every public word you’ve ever uttered isruthlessly dissected for potential talking points, photo ops with Timothy McVeigh don’tplay so well on election day.

Since leaving the office of Texas solicitor general in 2008, Ted Cruz has been followingthe code of the legal world, as a successful appellate lawyer with the prominent Houstonfirm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. These days, as a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, he is also emerging as the golden boy of Texas Republican politics.

Slick and highly articulate, Cruz has the kind of “God Bless the U.S.A.” bio that mostpoliticians need professional fiction writers to manufacture: Dad escapes political torturein Cuba, lands in Austin with $100 sewn in his underwear, works his way through theUniversity of Texas by washing dishes for 50 cents an hour, and inspires his son to make it to Harvard Law School. Cruz has stirred an all-out man-crush in veteran columnist George Will, earned the endorsements of a host of GOP-friendly organizations (includingthe Hispanic Republicans of Texas), and can claim Ronald Reagan’s old pal, Ed Meese,as his national campaign chairman. But Cruz’s decision to represent a Chinese conglomerate in a high-stakes patent piracy case could cause him some political headaches over the next year. (more…)

Tagged: 2012 senate race, chinese patent lawsuit, patents, Ted Cruz