Posted on 02/04/2016 8:24:46 AM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
A powerful firefighters union went after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Wednesday for claiming to be their defender and champion in his Iowa caucuses victory speech.
"What Ted Cruz did the other night in his Iowa victory speech is disgusting," said Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters. "He said he embraces fire fighters and the dangerous work they do, says he's our friend and calls himself a great patriot. But when it came time to actually have the backs of fire fighters across the U.S., he was AWOL. Cruz is the worst kind of politician who will say or do anything to get elected."
That anger stems from Cruz invoking the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the work of the first responders in his remarks Monday night, when he said he would be different from President Barack Obama....
But what irks Schaitberger is that Cruz opposed reauthorizing the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which provides health care for those same firefighters and first responders....
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I hope Cruz runs with this.
How about they pass a bill that all 9/11 first responders can have access to VA Hospitals.
You are a frigging IDIOT. If you had the brains God gave a goose you wouldn’t say such crap. You are either a Trumpnoid who says he can do everything or a Marconoid who is a pretty boy and light in the loafers. In either case they are Obama clones, the answer to everything that ails you. Neither one has the brains or the knowledge of what it will take to correct this mess that your other messiah has put us in. Grow up!
No I am a Christian who doesn’t abide by liars and sleazeballs.
What lies and sleazy has Trump done during campaign? There are things I don’t agree with about Trump but discern him to be honest and ethical in his campaigning unlike Rafael.
He is quickly losing any future support I could possibly have for him, he is acting like a Democrat. This isn’t conservatism, it stinks.
Calling people names? What are you three years old?
Cruz has been caught lying repeatedly just in last few weeks and the sleazy way he is acting to get votes needs to be addressed by honest conservatives. You can support a man who continues to lie and cheat, that is your pit, I won’t be jumping on with you.
Ah com’on he has lied so much you need a score to keep score. Yet many of his supporters actually encourage him and cheer him on for his behavior. It reeks!
Like a cult following in compete denial abut their leader.
Seriously? Are you actually saying that your statement does not equally apply to Trump supporters(of course not) or any of the other candidates supporters? It's over the top statements like this that are being flung around here and making the site really weird because usually we only see such hyperbole applied to demonrats.
What I find really funny is that I haven't come out for Cruz over Trump, but like clockwork you prove my point and before I even respond you double down on stupid. It's whacks like you on both sides that I was talking about.
I had read that. The more I read of the good senator, the less I trust him. Donald called him ‘nasty, sleazy..disliked by his fellow senators.’ I’m beginning to think he was right.
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