Yes, Dewhurst and Straus both have been quite RINO-ish as lege leaders, on TSA, on immigration, on standing up to the teachers’ unions, etc.
Dewhurst is not a bad person, but he’ll fit right in with the RINO go along club and wimp out on us. Cruz otoh ha conservative principles, can actually articulate them, and will have a lot of spine. He’s much better.
Your statement is simply not true. Dewhurst is tough on immigration - The TSA Bill was badly written and the Attorney General helped re-write it for the Special Session, then the Lt. Governor pushed it through the Special.
In the Regular, we got voter ID, prohibition on drivers licenses and deportation of illegal criminals after they’ve done their time.
Cruz has questionable ethics. All I’ve seen so far is a young man running for office since 2005, and then 2 years attacking a good conservative citizen legislator while ignoring the dems.