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Vogon_Glory

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Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:22 AM Aug 2012

Paul Sadler Says Ted Cruz Should Go Back To Canada

Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Paul Sadler, taking a shot at his rival before the GOP convention in Tampa, made Republican Ted Cruz’s foreign birth a campaign issue Friday and said Cruz's policy initiatives are far too radical for Texas.

“He needs to go back to Washington where he’s from, or Canada, because he doesn’t reflect us,” Sadler said. “I was born and raised here … when you cut me, I bleed Texas. He doesn’t, and I don’t have much use for it.”

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The Democrat, fighting an uphill battle in a red state, said he will focus instead on visits with Texas voters. He suggested that Cruz cares more about the national spotlight than the state he wants to represent in the U.S. Senate.

“If he wants to be a national movement type of politician, that’s great, but I’m going to be spending my time in Texas listening to Texans because Texas wants to pick its own senator, not have Washington pick it,” Sadler said.





http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/sadler-cruz-go-back-canada/

The trouble for Ted is that he'd be even further out on the fringes of the Canadian political spectrum than he would be here in Texas--even in Alberta.

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