Posted on 02/20/2021 9:59:12 AM PST by conservative98
The basics of Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun
This past Wednesday Ted Cruz flew from Houston to Cancun on United Airlines with his family. While he tried to fly under the radar (no pun intended), this was making national headlines by Thursday, as people caught onto what was happening.
Cruz started by throwing his kids under the bus, as one does, claiming he was just trying to be a good dad, and was just dropping his kids off, and would fly back on Thursday:
“With school canceled for the week, our girls asked us to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.”
Text messages revealed a different story, though. Heidi Cruz (Ted Cruz’s wife) had texted friends in Houston, stating their house was “FREEZING,” and inviting others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton Cancun (where they’ve stayed “many times”), and stated that rooms were $309 per night.
At this point people started looking at the upgrade list for the United flight from Cancun to Houston, noticing that Cruz was just barely missing the upgrade.
Again, Cruz claimed he was just dropping off his kids, but then it was revealed that Cruz had actually changed his flight. A source at United clearly accessed his reservation, and reported that at around 6AM on Thursday he changed his return flight from Saturday to Thursday.
Cruz eventually admitted this, and said “it’s been a tough week.”
United Airlines now investing data leak Most of the information about Cruz’s trip to Mexico was made public through “legitimate” means — there were pictures of him at the airport, his name was on the public upgrade list, etc. However, there’s one detail that someone could get in trouble for.
Specifically, someone had leaked that Cruz had changed his flight from returning on Sunday to returning on Thursday. Politico reports that United Airlines is now investigating this, and that the person who made the leak could be terminated:
“It’s against United’s policies to share personal information about our customers and we are investigating this incident.”
The airline states nothing is “off the table,” and the outcome depends on if they can figure out with certainty who disclosed this information.
Employees with access to United’s reservations system can easily see the record of flight changes that have been made. United can also easily tell who accessed Cruz’s record, either just to view it, or to make an actual change. The catch is that I’d bet quite a few employees had looked into this (purely out of curiosity), which might make it tough to figure out who the actual leak was.
Flight attendant union tells United to drop it Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants (often referred to as the most powerful flight attendant in America), is telling United to drop this investigation, saying that they are “all the leak.” She stated that Ted Cruz is “not a customer,” but rather that “he’s a public servant who has lied too many times.”
Bottom line
Ted Cruz’s trip to Mexico has created a lot of controversy. The trip itself aside, he first threw his kids under the bus and then lied about it. That lie was exposed when an airline employee revealed that he had in fact changed his itinerary to return on Thursday rather than Saturday.
United Airlines is now investigating the incident, and threatening to terminate the employee behind it. I’ll be curious to see if anything comes of this — I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a few United employees had accessed Cruz’s record, which could make it tough to definitely tell who actually leaked the information.
Changing his flight to come back early, apologizing, and sort of blaming his kids, makes him look weak, like a typical RINO.
How does one obtain the text messages of a US Senator's wife?
If her so-called friends revealed these texts, she needs new friends.
I didn’t like the idea of Nanzi showing off her $20k freezer stocked with $15 ice cream pints....while millions of Americans are out of work and without paychecks for basic necessities.
Ted going to Cancun, and, staying at the Ritz-Carlton - which he obviously often does - just isn’t good optics, during China Flu shut downs AND AN HISTORICAL ICE STORM, happening in our state.
Personal curiosity is not a legitimate business need, and doing so can be a violation of policy.
-PJ
catastrophies like this are always the president’s fault!
Yeah I like Ted Cruz too... But there’s no question that in this political climate this was a move that was devastatingly tone deaf.
This Cruz thing is what now, a 3 day story? If he killed 15,000 nursing home residents then the press would not have made a peep.
I used to work for United. It certainly isn’t Bill Patterson’s airline by any description. Bottom line worshiping trashy suits!
He should turn it around on the Democrat party-press and say I never said I was originally not coming back Thursday, I just left a “void” of information, then slam Cuomo.
I doubt the homosexual flight attendants (redundant?) were interested in girls.
Fled should have gotten his story straight.
Ted going to Cancun, and, staying at the Ritz-Carlton - which he obviously often does - just isn’t good optics, during China Flu shut downs AND AN HISTORICAL ICE STORM, happening in our state.
Right. So you have a chance to fly to Cancun during an ice staorm where there is rolling blackouts and no running water and you wouldn’t go? Ted is a senator. He has no power IN Texas to do anything, that on Abbott. This is a local government issue. So the.other than Ted wearing a coat and freezing along with you, for the 1 DAY he was gone, would that make you feel better? Did Texas really miss him that much for 24 hours? Give me a break. I would have left in a heartbeat like a NYer heading for Florida for the winter. Not hearing what Cornyn has so far done for your state.
“ how’d they get the text messages??”
Heidi sent the text to a friend and that friend leaked the text.
Believe New York Times accessed Facebook and all Cruz family, friends that were notified of travel plans.
“The catch is that I’d bet quite a few employees had looked into this (purely out of curiosity), which might make it tough to figure out who the actual leak was.”
Now if this had made Biden look bad, it would have been easy to find the source. Simply do what Obama did and pull up the email and phone records of the journalist who reported the story and match that to someone working at United who pulled up Cruz’s reservation.
Why the hell not, no one is going to jail anyway, since this is simply part of ‘fighting fascism’, as they see it.
I need to tell you that she has also witnessed a little girl, maybe 11, sitting next to a man who was "playing" with her under a blanket. She will never forget the look on that girl's face.
I really need to lay off getting on FR on Saturday.
Do you live in the USA?
Which state?
Leaders are supposed to lead and set a good example. Ted should have grabbed the opportunity to show that he was working at the federal level to lobby for all the help he could direct to Texas.
It has been a while since I have posted on FR but I couldn’t pass this up.
As a Texan who just went through this abysmal failure by ERCOT in keeping Texans supplied with electricity, I could careless Cruz went to Cancun.
No sane person in Texas is holding that trip against him.
It is the media stirring the pot and liberals piling on that are trying to create a mountain out of a molehill.
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