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Texas Republican Says Ted Cruz Not Speaking for State on Immigration
Slate ^ | November 19, 2014 | Betsy Woodruff

Posted on 11/19/2014 6:13:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Ted Cruz’s piece in Politico Magazine on Wednesday has drawn a lot of attention, not all of it kind.

In the piece, the Texas Senator charges that President Obama’s impending executive action on immigration “is lawless” and that if he makes the move, “he will be acting as a monarch.” Since his election in 2012, Cruz has vocally opposed comprehensive immigration reform.

A fellow Republican in the Texas congressional delegation said that Cruz’s energetic opposition to comprehensive immigration reform doesn’t adequately represent his constituents.

“I don’t think it’s reflective of Texas as a whole,” said Rep. Gene Green, chuckling. “I think it’s reflective of the Republican primary.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; betsywoodruff; genegreen; genegreenisademocrat; immigration; slate; tedcruz; texas
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To: Ancesthntr
Green should keep disagreements behind closed doors.

Ah, but this is what leftists do. They always have to find a gutless Republican under some sagebrush and criticize a conservative Republican. I remember the days when Warren Rudman and all the other worthless Republicans get to show their mugs on the Sunday shows and scream that Reagan was going "too far."

21 posted on 11/19/2014 6:25:46 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO COMPROMISE! NO BIPARTISANSHIP! STOP OBAMA NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

betsy.woodruff@slate.com

Like I just did, send her an email reminding her she’s a dumba$$.


22 posted on 11/19/2014 6:26:44 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slate, eh?


23 posted on 11/19/2014 6:30:29 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

he’s a dem


24 posted on 11/19/2014 6:31:03 PM PST by magna carta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gene Green is a yellow dog Democrat. As usual, Slate is wrong.


25 posted on 11/19/2014 6:31:25 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: shadeaud

LOL! GENE is a big buddy of SHILA. They both enjoy fully-equipped IA districts.


26 posted on 11/19/2014 6:33:09 PM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta

If you’re not taking flak, you’re not over target. CRUZ 2016!!!!


27 posted on 11/19/2014 6:33:52 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: BlueStateRightist

She’s one of Gruber’s finest.

She knew it was a lie, she’s just too stupid to care.


28 posted on 11/19/2014 6:36:05 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: txrefugee

Writer just responded to my email:

“Thanks so much for the note. I was wrong, and I appreciate the note. We’re correcting this now.
Best,
Betsy”


29 posted on 11/19/2014 6:36:13 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gene Green the Lying Machine.


30 posted on 11/19/2014 6:38:17 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: IMR 4350
She knew it was a lie, she’s just too stupid to care.

But why such an apparent easy-to-disprove lie?

Makes no sense to me yet. But, I'll wait.
31 posted on 11/19/2014 6:40:07 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m okay with that too, just not going to get too worked up over what a lib rag says.


32 posted on 11/19/2014 6:40:31 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Especially when it is wrong.

But I never miss a chance to point out the real liberal Republicans when I get a chance.

/johnny

33 posted on 11/19/2014 6:41:58 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BlueStateRightist
Writer just responded to my email: “Thanks so much for the note. I was wrong, and I appreciate the note. We’re correcting this now. Best, Betsy”

This response is not candid. Change the party to Democrat and the entire article remains dismissive of Cruz.

Slate, eh? Honest mistake, you bet.
34 posted on 11/19/2014 6:43:53 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice find.
Slate is such exposed stupidity.
This Rep.is a Dem.


35 posted on 11/19/2014 6:44:26 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Too kind you are. Headline now reads “Texas Congressman” etc.


36 posted on 11/19/2014 6:46:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: C. Edmund Wright
...just not going to get too worked up over what a lib rag says.

Wise choice. Removes the edginess from the situation.

But I feel in my fingers, I feel it in my toes...

Stuff is going down in America before the Thanksgiving stuffing does.
37 posted on 11/19/2014 6:47:40 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

I just wrote back to her:

“How a journalist makes such a basic mistake is beyond me, especially in an obvious hit piece against another politician. A simple Google search and I confirmed his party affiliation in less than 1 minute. BTW, your article (with its repaired headline) still calls him a “A fellow Republican in the Texas congressional delegation.” Embarrassing”


38 posted on 11/19/2014 6:47:51 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Resettozero

Your average dem voter is too ignorant to know it or even bother to check so they will just repeat “republicans are against Cruz”.

If she gets caught, she claims it’s just a mistake.


39 posted on 11/19/2014 6:52:45 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Correction, 9:45 p.m.: This post originally misstated Congressman Gene Green’s party affiliation. He is a Democrat, not a Republican.

This was at the bottom of the article.


40 posted on 11/19/2014 6:53:52 PM PST by dandiegirl
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