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Sen. Ted Cruz returning from Cancun during Texas power crisis
NY Post ^ | February 18, 2021 | 1:37pm | Updated | Ebony Bowden

Posted on 02/18/2021 11:16:45 AM PST by conservative98

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz flew home from Mexico Thursday, amid outrage over his trip during a crisis-level storm in Texas — explaining he was only chaperoning his daughters and their friends on the flight.

The Republican lawmaker was seen getting back on a plane to the US on Thursday afternoon and issued a statement explaining that was not on a vacation himself, but was accompanying his daughters on a flight to theirs.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cancun; congress; cruz; flyinted; hotwater; mexico; mountathos; texas; walkofshame
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To: TribalPrincess2U

No. Just stop.


161 posted on 02/18/2021 2:49:15 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: conservative98

You FR drama queens need to take a chill pill.
Nothing wrong was done here.


162 posted on 02/18/2021 2:50:52 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: JennysCool

So millions of people without power in your state, people
dying and others freezing... you would honestly go on a
planned vacation?

What about the plans of people in your state? I’m certain
they had some plans they had to blow off.

I’m sure they didn’t plan to die or suffer from severe cold
related problems.

Note that Ted is now scrambling back for Cancun.

This is a disaster on the order of a hurricane, tornado, or
wildfires. There may not be anything you can do, but your
constituents have some expectation that you would actually
care.

It doesn’t take a Leftist to realize Ted blew it here.


163 posted on 02/18/2021 2:51:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Why did you change the subject? I don’t do hypotheticals. As a practical matter, there wasn’t and isn’t anything for Cruz to do.

And if people want communism, let them have what they want. People get the government they deserve.


164 posted on 02/18/2021 2:53:54 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: conservative98

I don’t buy his excuse that he was just escorting his family there. He would have stayed if he hadn’t been caught. I guess it’s the best lie he could come up with given the circumstances.


165 posted on 02/18/2021 3:04:10 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Flick Lives
Maybe with Ivory Snow detergent flakes tossed on his hair to make him look like he’s been outside in the freezing weather. /////////// Pretty sure that’s what was used on the set of “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the outdoor snow scenes.

Yeah, nothing like realistic fakery.

Did you know the young mother pictured on the Ivory Snow boxes was Marilyn Briggs-Taylor, the one who later went under the name Marilyn Chambers (1952-1959)? The classic porn performer in Behind the Green Door. A friend of a friend of mine saw the movie. Ahem.

166 posted on 02/18/2021 4:04:12 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

She lived 1952-2009. Not 1959. Sorry.


167 posted on 02/18/2021 4:05:37 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

I think she lived more then 7 years, no?


168 posted on 02/18/2021 4:06:44 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: crosdaddy
I think she lived more then 7 years, no?

I corrected it a minute or so later to 2009. Apologies to my ever vigilant colleagues.

169 posted on 02/18/2021 4:11:26 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: conservative98

1. Bad optics.
2. Spineless response.

I’m not sure which is worse.


170 posted on 02/18/2021 4:28:13 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: napscoordinator

You say, “no” to my comment, “One would have more luggage if one had planned to stay”, and what is it I’m supposed to ‘just stop’?

If his wife went also, then I would consider that a vacation. Otherwise, he did what he said he was doing. There and back.


171 posted on 02/18/2021 5:52:21 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: TribalPrincess2U

PS was not talking to directly to you..just happened to be the first ‘reply’ button I came across. I’ll try to remember to not reply to you. Have a great life!


172 posted on 02/18/2021 5:54:12 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: conservative98

The local Houston news media are really piling on, they dedicated half their time on this non-story. Shameful really.


173 posted on 02/18/2021 5:56:13 PM PST by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

United States he had a return ticket for Saturday. He changed it this morning to come back. But now that he’s home, he will have to deal with whatever if anything comes from it. Maybe it is a dead issue now.


174 posted on 02/18/2021 5:57:16 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: napscoordinator

Let’s hope!


175 posted on 02/18/2021 5:58:19 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: DoughtyOne

What the f*** could he do ? Why not ask why Biden stayed hunkered in the Capital?


176 posted on 02/18/2021 5:59:38 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Is this thread about Biden?

Is anyone here defending Biden? Is anyone defending Harris
here?

Ted demonstrated that he could go vacation in a tropical
zone while his fellow Texans were on death’s doorstep.

I couldn’t have done that. I see a big problem with it.


177 posted on 02/18/2021 6:05:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Salvavida
"As a practical matter, there wasn’t and isn’t anything for Cruz to do."

Reactively, perhaps, there was not much Cruz could do to help his constituents, though that is arguable. Proactively; however, he could have refused to provide his critics with a depot's worth of ammunition with which to go after him. This he did not do.

As Lee Atwater was fond of saying, in politics, perception is reality, and Cruz did himself no favors in the perceptions he formed by doing this.

178 posted on 02/18/2021 6:27:00 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: napscoordinator

Cruz said on Hannity he was going with his wife and kids to the beach. He wasn’t just making sure his kids got on the plane. Cruz said he originally planned to work remotely throughout the weekend, Wed to Saturday. Hence the suitcase. But then had second thoughts (after the backlash) and said we need to have boots on the ground.


179 posted on 02/18/2021 6:51:20 PM PST by conservative98
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To: frank ballenger

HaHa no problem FRiend, I don’t know if I should admit to this; but I saw that movie and I knew she was older than 7, LOL.


180 posted on 02/18/2021 7:17:07 PM PST by crosdaddy
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