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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-airport-power-crisis-texas

Sen. Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family this week as Texas dealt with a winter storm that as of Thursday still has left 500,000 without power, Fox News has confirmed.

Photographs of Cruz, R-Texas, at an airport began circulating on social media late Wednesday, with people alleging that the senator had left the state for Cancun amid a major crisis. A Republican source told Fox News that the allegations Cruz was traveling to the Mexican city are true.

I'll never understand how anyone defends this guy.

A lot of the same people think Limbaugh was a great American.
Critical thinking isn’t their forte.

I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, but I think I have more respect for guys like Limbaugh or Trump than I do for guys like Cruz. Please don't read that that I support or condone Limbaugh's or Trump's rhetoric, because I think I've made it obvious throughout these threads that is not true.

The thing is with Trump and Limbaugh, is at least you knew where they stood. They were out in the open. They embrace(d) the role of the heel.

Cruz is just so insanely conniving and opportunistic to a sociopathic level. It's become glaringly obvious that he has no conviction or core principles. He just does whatever is best for himself at any given moment, while preaching the opposite.

I know the comment back to that is "that's every politician" and while that is true to some degree, there is still a spectrum of self-interest among them, and he is still at the far end of it.

I don't know that I agree with you. I find from my viewpoint that all three of them are very opportunistic individuals. From my viewpoint most pundits, politicians and public political figures fall into this category to at least some extent.

We don't really "know where they stand". What we do know is that they have a target audience. They have chosen a demographic that they cater to. By creating controversy it increases their ratings, the publicity they garner and increases the worth of their brand.

Could they be sincere in all cases? I imagine that may be possible. But if you follow the money and the power structure I think you can easily see why I'm skeptical that many of these people are genuine in everything they say.

When creating controversy increases your popularity, influence, wealth and power I will always question the motivation behind it.

I don't care.

There's a lot of that going around these days.

j/c

Texas mayor resigns after telling residents desperate for power and heat "only the strong will survive"

By Christopher Brito

February 18, 2021 / 6:55 AM / CBS News

A Texas mayor resigned after seemingly telling residents to fend for themselves in a Facebook post amid a deadly and record-breaking winter storm that left much of the state without power Tuesday.

As then-mayor of Colorado City, Tim Boyd wrote an insensitive message for people desperate for heat, water and power, saying "only the strong will survive and the weak will [perish.]"

"No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this!" he said. "Sink or swim it's your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout."

Boyd told people without water to "think outside the box to survive" and called people waiting in the cold because they have no power "lazy" – even as authorities were telling people to stay home to avoid icy roads.

"Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout!!" he said, before finishing off his message in capital letters,"DONT [be] PART OF PROBLEM, BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION!!"

The post was deleted, but circulated widely on social media. Boyd received intense backlash for his remarks and later announced he quit his office in another Facebook message.

"I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need of help to be left to fend for themselves," Boyd wrote. "I was only making the statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and fend for themselves but are capable should not be dealt a handout. I apologize for the wording and some of the phrases that were used!"

Boyd said his wife was "fired" after his comments and that he wasn't speaking as an official of Colorado City or the county where it sits, Mitchell County. He added that he had not signed up to run again for mayor earlier this month.

The official Colorado City website listed Boyd as mayor as of Wednesday morning. CBS News reached out for more information, but did not immediately hear back.

At least 17 people are dead and almost 3 million homes and businesses are still without power in Texas on Wednesday morning after this week's major winter storm. Some of the coldest temperatures in decades hit the Lone Star State, resulting in water restrictions because of burst pipes and a lack of electricity at treatment plants. While water and power are being restored, the weather prompted many residents to step up for each other.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-boyd-te...inkId=111628840

As there should be, especially about stupid things like this that don't matter. This is purely a "gotcha" story about optics because there isn't a single thing he can do to help the people of Texas at the moment.

Yeah, making excuses for a politician who deserts the people who elected them in their time of need is something that makes me say, "I don't care".

From the party of personal responsibility to the party of lame excuses in just a few short years.

It's not an excuse, there is literally nothing he can do to help anybody. He's not the governor, he's not a state legislator, he's not a mayor, he's not on an energy or utility commission.. he's a federal senator of a senate that isn't even in session.

Maybe you think there is some nobility in staying to suffer with everybody else...

There is nobility in it. He was elected by Texans to represent them. He is supposed to care about his constituents. Standing by the side of the very people you represent in a time of crisis is what leadership looks like. And just for giggles and grins, let's look at the excuse he provided. I mean even he knows he screwed up.

Ted Cruz says he went to Cancun during Texas crisis because he wanted to be a "good dad"

By Zoe Christen Jones, Kris Van Cleave

Updated on: February 18, 2021 / 1:39 PM / CBS News

Senator Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family for a trip this week as Texas deals with the aftermath of a winter storm that left millions without power, an airline industry source familiar with the situation told CBS News. The Republican senator is expected to return on a flight home Thursday afternoon.

Photos of Cruz arriving at the airport for the trip went viral on social media, sparking widespread criticism of the senator for leaving during the emergency. Cruz on Thursday said he wanted to escort his children who were leaving for a trip with friends.

"With school canceled for the week, our girls asked 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," Cruz said in a statement. The senator said he's been in "constant communication" with local leaders "to get to the bottom of what happened" in Texas

"The greatest state in the greatest country in the world has been without power. We have food lines, gas lines, and people sleeping at the neighbors' houses. Our homes are freezing and our lights are out. Like millions of Texans, our family lost heat and power too."

At least 25 deaths were attributed to the storm, 11 of the victims were from Texas. Widespread outages left over 3 million without power this week, although most had been restored. More than 500,000 residents were still without power as of Thursday afternoon.

Some of Cruz's political opponents have called on him to resign.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-ca...inkId=111642754

It must be a terrible thing when you can't trust your wife to escort your children to Mexico without you accompanying them. This is what it looks like when Cruz had to come up with a lame excuse for doing the wrong thing.

I agree they are all opportunistic, which is why I talk about the "spectrum of opportunism" so to speak.

In my view, guys like Trump and Limbaugh are going to have their bases that they cater to and that doesn't change. When they got bullied - often times deservedly so - they at least stuck to their guns, for right or wrong (often the latter).

Cruz got absolutely bullied by Trump, including insults to his wife, and still hitched his wagon to Trump's horse. After all that he stated in the primaries, he's now like the Toady to Trump's Scott Farkas, and in my mind, that's even worse.

To add another wrinkle, I also think he's a lot worse because he actually knows what he's doing and is more calculated. Trump is like a bull in a china shop.

He was, since as long as I can remember, someone who likes a good verbal back and forth and he got more cavalier about it during his presidency. He did a fantastic job of burning bridges while never building any except of course this far right crew. But he'll through anyone under the bus including them if he has too. He has clearly demonstrated that superpower.

Optics aside, I have zero expectation that Cruz is the person that can fix things so probably in Texas's best interest he stay in Mexico for awhile. He is quite the political tool. And no, he ain't gonna resign so the story above where someone is calling for him to do so is just hot air.

Now that Mayor on the other hand....wow.

If you don't believe every word Trump uttered was totally calculated, once again we disagree.

I get where you're coming from, but this is an awful look on his part.

You have to take into account that he invites this kind of scrutiny on himself from all his inflammatory tactics as well.

Was it last year that he was sending out Tweets mocking California for the rolling blackouts and then saying the Democrats wanted to make this standard across the country? I think he also mocked another politician for telling people to stay at home while that politician was on vacation in the Caribbean somewhere, too (a deserved criticism).

The thing with Cruz is that, yeah, he's not in a crucial role currently that can help out the crisis, but how many years did he have the opportunity to advocate for infrastructural improvements to places like Texas to avoid the current calamities.

With that all in mind, he's now sending and furthering the image that he's completely out of touch with his constituents and their best interests.

Covfefe?

And I don't. I don't believe he's that intelligent or has that much impulse control, but it's fine to disagree.

I didn't suggest his calculations were correct.

Ha! That's fair.

this is just straight up garbage. i tried looking at this from every angle i possibly could, and yet this comment couldn't get any less garbage.

yes, he is a freaking US senator. a republican senator who not even a year ago, trashed california over their energy grid during a crazy heat wave and called it poor democratic leadership. now, a US SENATOR, 1 of just 100 people on the planet with that level of influence, one of the guys who fights at the FEDERAL level for his oil and gas overlords, is in a state going through a cold front crisis and has a massive failure in the energy grid he helped fight to deregulate.

instead of being on the phones and trying to get generators to his people, instead of being on the phones with his oil and gas corporate masters and trying to get something, ANYTHING delivered to people in need, instead of being there with his people trying to assist coordinate with emergency services on the ground, instead of putting pressure on congress to get back in session - through zoom calls or ANYTHING- to get emergency relief and a bill that focuses specifically the US energy grid, instead of doing the bare minimal and at least checking on his people, he takes his ass to cancun, mexico?

but according to you...eh, whatever. i mean nothing he can do so he might as well go party while the same people he is supposed to be representing die in the cold, right?

every time you post you prove more and more why you vote GOP: cause empathy and leadership just doesn't mean jack crap to you whatsoever. freaking pathetic.

There’s nothing he can do?
Really?

Cruz is a human scab.

This is what real leadership looks like.

https://news.yahoo.com/beto-orourke-organizing-wellness-checks-153000413.html
Beto O'Rourke is organizing wellness checks for seniors during Texas' blackouts. Ted Cruz is in Cancun.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.elpasotimes.com/amp/6797522002
“Ted Cruz in Cancun? Beto O'Rourke aids seniors during blackout. Twitter reacts”

if he's doing work in Mexico to work on getting things up and running again I have no problem with this... going to mexico guaranteed he would have power and internet.

if he's on vacation then i'm pissed...

I 100% agree there's a lot he can do and should be doing... I can see though if he was worried about losing power/internet then it'd be hard for him to make those calls and try to organize things.

If he is trying to organize and call his people from Mexico then I have no problem with him going somewhere with guaranteed infrastructure... if he's just vacationing or hanging out then he's a bigger slim than I thought...

Allegedly he was being a good dad - getting his family over there and coming back tomorrow .... the problem with that is there is absolutely no need for Ted to be on that flight. None. Get your family out of town, sure but no need to accompany them at all.

On the list of things you can rake Ted Cruz over the coals for... this ranks fairly low, imo.

Forget it man, the mob see's what they want to see.

If he opened his home for people to stay, they would find something wrong with that.

Imagine if Trump was still in power.It would all be his fault while Biden sits in the basement of the WH playing with his toes.

Yep, you would just send your family off to Mexico and let them get to their destination on their own.

You do know that many people get in cabs down there and end up out in the desert. A US Senators family wouldn't be a target.

Of course that is what you would do.

You call my post garbage, you call what Ted Cruz did garbage.. fine, it's garbage.. but it's one styrofoam cup on the garbage pile that is our political system and the entitled bastards that run it... and the only reason it's a story is because Ted Cruz is a republican and because the optics of it are worse than somebody like Pelosi getting into her chauffeur driven car at San Fran airport and getting shuttled to her multi-million dollar home past all of the homeless people in the streets who live and die like that every day..

Does anybody whine about the Pelosis, the Obamas, the Clintons, et.al. using their privilege to live significantly better AND SAFER than the people who voted for them? And they live like that every freakin' day of their lives. While countless people in their districts are fighting urban crime wars, sleeping under bridges, without heat in the winter, without clean water, dying in the cold.. there the politicians are, living like royalty, EVERY FREAKING DAY while the suckers that voted for them for decades struggle and suffer and die....

And the only reason I focused on Pelosi is because she's easy... could pick any number of people to use in this example.. well, that and she was awarded the JFK Profile in Courage Award.. takes a ton of courage to live like she does while others are crapping in the streets of San Fran...

And as for your last sentence.. you are proving why you vote Dem.. because they have conned your ass into believing they are different and that they care. If you were in the street, you'd be chasing after her limo begging for food while she sped off to do a press conference to blame republicans for not doing anything about your situation..

I thought they just gave him a balloon to stare at and smile.

Oh - you mean like the HUGE story about Pelosi and her hair cut?

Maybe it's a MEH story ... but giving the guy a 100% free pass and enabling him and what others like him do isn't cool no matter which side of the isle they are on.

Now, look... He bought those tickets and booked that reservation on a vacation week, you want to reimburse him fine, but dammit, if it were me or you our butt would have been on the plane.

And it's all the democrats + liberals fault, (that should be enough explanation right there.) but I'll explain,

Because the libs want conformance to a false, cult, religion, of climate change, that stops the usage, (procurement), of regular time tested methods to make electricity, things like coal, and whatnot.

Problems in Texas? ya it's the Liberals' fault, they seem to hate America.
It's a shame too, because Texans' are nice, and deserve better. .02

Hold on! Is Biden doing anything to help the Texans? Texas?

(wait, I phrased that wrong,) Is Chinese interests' serving President in subsidiary, Biden doing anything to help Texas or the people of Texas?

so your best argument was to deflect blame to others?

seriously, the best you could come up with was "what about obama"

good lord thats next level pathetic.

I take back what I said... slim ball

And he received the highest honor a civilian can be awarded, made me sick because it cheapens that award for the REAL Patriots who have received it.

You don't calculate word salad and rambling.

And don't think that Texans aren't mad as hell right now either. When I lived there they would break out parkas for 50-60 degree weather. Between the bad weather and the grid failing, they are hopping mad.