How Ted Cruz abandoned Texans when he was needed most
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A play on words, when GOP members such as Cruz agreed that “Mexico is not sending their best” when referencing immigrants heading to the US. Now he’s the migrant, who obviously isn’t the best representation of Texas.
March 12, 2021
As the Texas finished off the month of February with a nail-biting, historical, and disastrous snowstorm, Senator Ted Cruz was nowhere to be found, except on a plane to Cancun.
Texans experienced power and water outages, being stranded in their homes as temperatures dropped below freezing and forced the state into a declaring a state of emergency.
Where was Cruz? He was cowering away from his position by fleeing to Cancun where there were three things Texans didn’t have: power, water, and sun.
Instead, previous candidate for Cruz’s position, Beto O’Rourke, stepped up and did the job actually given to Cruz.
Dropping everything, Beto ran to Texans’ aide, having large donation drives and phone banks to check in on senior citizens.
Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a representative from New York City jumped in, raising over $4 million for food drives, and getting water to people.
It is so upsetting to me that Cruz, a man who claims to care about Texas, ran away to Mexico, which is extremely ironic within itself.
A man who has campaigned against migrants entering the U.S. to seek a better life has become a migrant himself, showing his true hypocritical colors.
Cruz does not care about his constituents, only about keeping his position to take money from far-right PACs and line his pockets while Texans suffer.
He has never had my respect, but he reached a new low when he blamed his escape route on his daughters seeking a weekend getaway.
It’s not a matter of turning Texas blue to ensure Cruz never takes office again.
Texas has always been blue, but terrible leaders like Greg Abbott, John Cornyn, and especially Ted Cruz keep it suppressed.
Texas has one of the worst cases of voter suppression in the nation, with counties gerrymandered like none other.
In the case for San Antonio, “For the 2012 elections, a panel of three federal judges in San Antonio drew temporary maps, based largely on the Republican-drawn districts, which lawmakers formally adopted in 2013” MySanantonio.
Cruz has only proven to be a disappointment to Texas, with his heart as cold as Texas got this February- we need to elect a new leader who won’t leave us on a trip to Cancruz.
