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![]() He was a high-energy guy and loved diving in to help out.”īeing a huge San Francisco Giants fan – he and Nancy and their two daughters, Erin and Heather, would drive from Modesto to Candlestick Park when they held season tickets – Ayala was thrilled to celebrate the team’s three championships during the past decade, sharing that delight with his family. “If a fundraiser came along, he’d organize it. “If someone needed help with bills, he’d throw a dinner,” Natter said. Possessing a personality as big as his heart, he was known and liked by just about everyone in the small community. Ayala also was active with the Kiwanis Club and Sierra Bible Church in Sonora. During his career, he served as a patrolman and sergeant, retiring as a lieutenant commander in Sonora.Īyala then shifted gears, stepping in to be the executive director of the Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce for three years when the organization was struggling. Though that choice of vocation was made with an eye toward stability, Ayala soon realized that law enforcement was a good fit for his leadership and problem-solving skills. And he embraced that.”īorn in Burlingame and raised in San Bruno, Ayala married his high school sweetheart Nancy in 1974 in Long Beach and joined the Highway Patrol five years later. He was so charismatic that people just gravitated toward him. “He had the heart and the talent and the personality to meet just about any demand,” said his daughter Erin Natter. ![]() He just shifted his focus to his church and local civic groups around his Sonora home, filling needs, lending his time, getting things done. We've already cut expenses and hitting our online goal is critical right now.Michael Ayala retired from the California Highway Patrol in 2009 after putting in 30 years. Please learn more about how Mother Jones works and our 47-year history of doing nonprofit journalism that you don't find elsewhere-and help us do it with a donation if you can. Despite the challenges, we're optimistic we can increase the share of online readers who decide to donate-starting with hitting an ambitious $300,000 goal in just three weeks to make sure we can finish our fiscal year break-even in the coming months. ![]() This Is the New Normal," we explain, as matter-of-factly as we can, what exactly our finances look like, how brutal it is to sustain quality journalism right now, what makes Mother Jones different than most of the news out there, and why support from readers is the only thing that keeps us going. We also need long-time and new donors, everyone, to keep showing up for us. We need to start raising significantly more in donations from our online community of readers, especially from those who read Mother Jones regularly but have never decided to pitch in because you figured others always will. ![]() This is the best thing on the Internet tonight īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. The whole family exchange was pretty adorable. The girls may not have had much to say on the Cruz versus Trump delegate fight, but they weighed in on a different kind of “Bad Blood” (#sorrynotsorry). Caroline, whose eighth birthday is on Thursday, and five-year-old Catherine, were shy about naming their favorite pop star, but their mother, Heidi, answered for them: “The girls would love to have their first guest be Taylor Swift,” she said. When Heidi Cruz joined her husband on stage and audience members came to the mic, the questions moved from the political to the personal: What was their first date? (A dinner when the two were working on the Bush campaign in 2000.) What did she think was his “most annoying” quality? (His iPhone.) Cruz also told the audience that he loves movies but his wife isn’t interested in them, and that, after The Princess Bride, his favorite movies are The Godfather series, including The Godfather Part III.īut the real highlight of the evening came when Cruz’s two young daughters, dressed in identical yellow dresses, were asked whom they would first want to invite to visit the White House. ![]() And we have beaten Donald in all of 11 of them,” Cruz said. “In the last three weeks there have been 11 elections in four states. Cruz said Trump is acting like a “union boss thug” by threatening delegates and noted that he’s only complaining about the process because recently he has lost several key primaries. The CNN town hall with Ted Cruz and his family on Wednesday night began with host Anderson Cooper talking to the candidate about the usual political subjects, including his thoughts about GOP front-runner Donald Trumps’ vocal opposition to the current system of gathering delegates in advance of the Republican National Convention. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
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