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Wicked Blue

(5,826 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 12:52 PM Feb 2021

Ted Cruz asks Houston cops to help him get out of airport as Texans rage over Cancun trip: report

Source: Raw Story

Brad Reed
February 18, 2021

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is flying home amid widespread outrage over his decision to fly to Cancun while millions of his residents are freezing amid mass power outages.

Now ABC News reporter Ben Siegel brings word that Cruz's staff reached out to the Houston Police Department to see if they could supply personnel to help the senator make his way out of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

"Cruz's staff contacted HPD personnel at IAH on Wednesday... and requested assistance upon the Senator's arrival at the airport," Siegel reports. "HPD officers monitored his movements through the terminal."

It is unclear about what assistance Cruz needs to get out of the airport, although his trip to Cancun in the midst of a statewide crisis has outraged many Texas residents who want their elected officials to be working full time to restore power and provide relief.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-cancun-2650611169/

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Ted Cruz asks Houston cops to help him get out of airport as Texans rage over Cancun trip: report (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2021 OP
He knows he'll be unmercifully harassed. NCDem47 Feb 2021 #1
The Houston Cops have their hands full... perhaps the proud boys can be his entourage... Raster Feb 2021 #2
You mean the Q Cucks Clan? The Mouth Feb 2021 #13
Nailed it LearnedHand Feb 2021 #15
+10 Raster Feb 2021 #16
+ 100 True Blue American Feb 2021 #17
Because HPD has nothing better to be doing right now. tanyev Feb 2021 #3
Bet he's still wearing that perplexed expression Grokenstein Feb 2021 #4
He wants to make sure that reporters can't photograph him returning nattyice Feb 2021 #5
Ding Ding Ding Deacon Blue Feb 2021 #9
'Complete and Utter Hypocrisy' Deacon Blue Feb 2021 #6
I thought real Texans prided themselves on their we can do it ourselves attitude? Freethinker65 Feb 2021 #7
That's the second time in only a few weeks Cruz needed police protection from an angry mob. sop Feb 2021 #8
What a slimy little weasel Blue Owl Feb 2021 #10
So much for rugged individualism and protecting oneself and family IronLionZion Feb 2021 #11
Doesn't owning guns solve almost every little problem in life? Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #12
Cruz need police protection from his "patriots" but the lawmakers at the Federal Capitol, hadEnuf Feb 2021 #14
K&R ck4829 Feb 2021 #18

Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. The Houston Cops have their hands full... perhaps the proud boys can be his entourage...
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 12:55 PM
Feb 2021

...I'm guessing he has a few of them on speed dial.

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
4. Bet he's still wearing that perplexed expression
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 01:02 PM
Feb 2021

second only to Tucker's in terms of phoniness and punchability.

"I dunno what they're mad at me for! This is clearly the fault of liberals and democrats!" Ted snivels as he takes another sip of his martini.

Deacon Blue

(252 posts)
9. Ding Ding Ding
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 01:11 PM
Feb 2021

Hurry to the airport, local TV. Maybe others can bring rotten vegetables, dead cats, just like in Huckleberry Finn?

And expect supporters to welcome him with open hearts, and signs denouncing librul media and antifa...

Deacon Blue

(252 posts)
6. 'Complete and Utter Hypocrisy'
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 01:05 PM
Feb 2021

Last edited Thu Feb 18, 2021, 03:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Read to the bottom where Rafael Edward Cruz calls Austin mayor Adler ‘a complete and utter hypocrite’ for going to Cabo after telling everyone to stay home...🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼👎🏻




https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/ted-cruz-cancun.html

Just for the day, says his spokestwit. Yeah. Right. Everyone takes day trips to Cancun.

sop

(10,136 posts)
8. That's the second time in only a few weeks Cruz needed police protection from an angry mob.
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 01:09 PM
Feb 2021

Luckily, this time no Houston cops were injured or killed as a result of Ted's ill-advised actions, unlike the Capitol assault.

IronLionZion

(45,403 posts)
11. So much for rugged individualism and protecting oneself and family
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 02:33 PM
Feb 2021

Hope Cancun was fun and relaxing, asshole

Wicked Blue

(5,826 posts)
12. Doesn't owning guns solve almost every little problem in life?
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 02:35 PM
Feb 2021

Like a self-reliant Texan, he should have stayed home and shot at the frozen water pipes.

hadEnuf

(2,183 posts)
14. Cruz need police protection from his "patriots" but the lawmakers at the Federal Capitol,
Thu Feb 18, 2021, 09:31 PM
Feb 2021

not so much.

And I'm sure Houston Police have better things to do, like assist people without heat or water to safety shelters, rather than protect that slimy little fucking rat.

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