(02-19-2021 12:16 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Dude, herein lies the problem.
Quote:Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is facing backlash for traveling to Mexico as a winter disaster ravages his home state, has repeatedly criticized politicians who vacationed or took part in leisure activities during times of crisis, a CNN KFile review finds.
This past December, Cruz attacked Austin Mayor Steve Adler for going to Cabo, Mexico, during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Hypocrites. Complete and utter hypocrites. And don’t forget @MayorAdler who took a private jet with eight people to Cabo and WHILE IN CABO recorded a video telling Austinites to ‘stay home if you can…this is not the time to relax,'” tweeted Cruz in December.
https://ktvz.com/politics/2021/02/19/ted...ng-crisis/
Austin Mayor.
Texas Senator.
As I said, he is not a mayor, nor even a governor. He is quite literally our State Representative in DC. He does not work for the state government... He does not work for a city. It's like saying JJ Watt should have been there to help James Harden sink that game winning basket. Sure, had he been there in the stands it might have looked good on TV, but he doesn't have a job with the Rockets.... like Cruz doesn't have a job within the state.
Did Cruz tell people without power not to travel to where power was? Of course not.
Its hypocritical to tell someone not to travel while you're traveling. It's not hypocritical to tell people to go to a warm place whether that is a shelter, a home with power, or even Cancun.
You know this. Why do you pretend not to?
(02-19-2021 12:25 PM)tigergreen Wrote: (02-19-2021 11:49 AM)Hambone10 Wrote: He's a senator... not a mayor or even a governor. He has no power within the state. It is his job to represent us in DC.
Agreed....but it's also AOC's job to do that for her constituents, and she somehow managed to raise $1M for TX in a matter of days. Beto has no power within the state either, but he's being proactive and trying to help as he can as well.
Is their motivation 100% pure? Of course not...does that change the fact that they have helped people in TX more than Cruz has? Nope.
You would hope that people holding public office have at least the moral constitution to try to do something to help their constituents out when something like this happens. Instead Cruz is more worried about running around doing damage control for his image.
And democrats including both you and AOC are more interested in damaging his image such that he would need to spend time controlling it.
Has he really done nothing? Or has he merely not done something mostly symbolic as I suggested.
$1mm? oooooh. That's $1 per HOUSEHOLD without power in Houston alone.
The whole point about AOC only demonstrates
a) that the left is trying to prop her up to do more than just be a house rep from Queens... I mean seriously, that was probably a few democrats essentially making a tax deductible unlimited campaign contribution.
b) that someone with no other tasks can be helpful from ANYWHERE, including a beach in Cancun.
I would not be saying this if Sylvester Turner were on the beach, or Gregg Abbott, or certainly the head or ERCOT... but Ted Cruz? It's laughable. And FTR, I didn't and wouldn't vote for Cruz to be the Republican Nominee. Had he won, I MIGHT have voted for him over Hillary, but he would not have been my choice... so I have no interest at all in 'supporting' Cruz.
It's about being smart enough to know what people's jobs are and when they're merely putting on a show. People will always be around to take free money... but money hasn't been the problem in Texas. Its not as if people didn't have power because they couldn't pay their power bill... or that Texas couldn't get them power because we didn't have money... or you couldn't run your generator because the stations didn't have power to run the pumps... or that having more money would have made the gas lines shorter or allowed more people to violate COVID to get into stores or create more room at shelters. You need city and state leaders nearby to make exceptions to city or state rules and policies and to make decisions about allocations of resources. You don't need a Senator for that. They have no power to do those things... and yes, it helps to be nearby and 'in it' to know how best to allocate resources.
So yeah, to Tom above... you either don't understand the job descriptions of these people (which I doubt) or you are simply playing politics.... and to Green, you are either playing or falling for those political games.
OH LOOK, Cruz happened to have a family vacation planned... (FTR, I've said for years Texas has 2 seasons, summer and February) so yes... it makes PERFECT SENSE to go to a beach in February... and its a shorter flight from Texas to Cancun than DC... or Cali or Fl.... AND much more likely to be warm. I've done Spring break in both Orlando and Anaheim and its been in the 30's. HURRY... Let's get some Democrat whose career we're trying to advance and make them look good while making a Republican look bad.
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Political theatre, nothing else.