A few have been implying that Cruz is influenced by outside business interests.
However, if we want to smear by innuendo, it is easier to do that with Jeff Sessions (a legislator I admire in the main.)
Sessions in his May 22 statement saying he won’t support the TPA because of the pending TPP quotes a Nucor Steel representative about Asian steel issues and its impact from that deal. Where does Nucor Steel have plants? How about four steel plants in ALABAMA. (That’s right, the same state Jeff Sessions represents)
There are a lot of other steel plants besides Nucor in Alabama as Alabama and Texas were the big gainers when the Pennsylvania rust belt old plants went cold forty five years ago.
So, if we want to talk about special interests of big business influencing votes, Sessions is more open to that question in the case of this vote than Cruz or Steve King.
A good point, but the difference is that Sessions is being bought off to protect American jobs, and TPP is designed to improve the position of foreign jobs at the expense of American jobs.
But I have no doubt both are bought off for what they are doing. I like Cruz best still, but this is a powerful caution that like ANY politician, he bears very close watching and will usually follow the money.