Look a girl playing with a soccer ball:
Not the way you do it Ted.
You send the family to Cancun...and you stay home to save your state.
Sure, Ted. Texas and GOP presidential primary voters will be very understanding and sympathetic to your plight and struggle.
Millions of dad’s in Texas want to be good dads too.
But they have no heat, water and probably food for their wife
and kids.
Nothing wrong with taking a vacation.
Just don’t do it when your State needs your voice.
Could have sent someone else to chaperone his daughters - like his wife. Just an unforced error.
Ted, you blew it. You abandoned your people in time of need
A lot of people saying this is ok.
Texas is a sh t show right now. Biggest reason is there is no leadership. There’s been five days of subfreeze with no Power, water, roads access to emergency resources. The aftermath will be another drawn out sh t show trying to get water pipes back in action, water damaged property, equipment.
That’s if hundreds of people are not found having died of hypothermia in their freezing snowed-in homes and apartments
The biggest hospital in town has Intermittently no running water
Cruz acted like a Shakespearean level tone deaf power figure here. It may get worse for him if the aftermath is very bad
He is so tone deaf its not funny
Let me reiterate that I would eschew either of my US Senators dropping by the grid unsupplied compound to give me a hug whilst I’m working on getting my lame emergency electricity supply hooked up to provide for minimum compound needs.
Is he governor? Is he supposed to go door to door with bottled water? Are these Americans incapable of taking care of themselves? Such drama.
I didn’t know Texans were so needy.
Ted did nothing wrong, but the Libs will Dogpile him anyway, because it’s what they do to any republican.
Don’t even apologize, Ted. Family comes first if you have the means to protect them.
Boy we sure have our fair share of clowns on the forum today.
Over one million people out of power. A number of folks have
died. Many of those who didn’t die yet, have some real
problems avoiding that.
Those people have families, children, and live-stock that
have to be cared for, and it isn’t something they planned
either.
This doesn’t fit into their plans.
Generally when a major event happens in your state, you
make a show of support by visiting with people, maybe
standing up to help folks with emergency supplies.
You roll up your sleeves and show the people of your state
that you care what happens to them. Can he stop all the
problems by waving his hand? Of course not. It has to
do with optics, and showing your fellow state citizens
that everything is being done to help them, and that there
will be relief soon. It’s an important message to give.
I’m seeing a lot of people telling others that they would
have left the state to travel to resort rather than stick
it out with constituents.
I seriously doubt that. If you folks were a high official
of the state, and a U. S. Senator certainly is one, you
can’t just turn your back on people and expect to be given
a pass.
A U. S. Senator answers to the people of the state. They
selected him to represent them. When calamities take place
they expect some semblance of caring.
Ted is coming back from Cancun. He knows he blew it.
There is no way in hell I would blow off my state if
something like this took place and millions were in jeopardy,
and I think most people here would seen it that way also.
This is no different then evacuating from a hurricane. People need to pull their panties out of their crack and take a break.
Except it did happen 132 years ago...so logic tells me it was warming 132 years ago...exactly like it is today.
Bad optics and bad timing. Should have stayed in state and get involved at some level. People are peed off already at the political elites. Whether warranted or not Texan’s Senator Cruz didn’t garner any favor from the voters.
I’m in Texas and a native Texan. The mess is over in 4 days. Texans handle things just fine, and Ted knows it. We don’t need constant protectin’ like most blue states. Heck, I should have thought about flying to Cancun. Chill, freepers, and back off.
Look a girl playing with a soccer ball:
There really isn’t much Cruz can do during a situation like this.
Now the real question is why no one has heard a word out of Biden on the Storm and Texas . Nothing, he’s had one long Lid Day all week.
Trump would have been on top of this and already been touring places and getting help. Joe, well he needs 18 hours of sleep per day tp function.
Between the electric grid collapse and Cruz trip, Texas will never be a red state ever again.
He knew full well what risk he was taking with bad press had he been discovered. Idiot. Was he going to Cancun for his daughters liver transplant?
Now that he has allowed himself to be bullied into returning, he should make the left regret it — by exposing the environmental extremism and proposing solutions.