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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt Gets Even Better - Ted And Heidi Left Their Dog Behind In Their "FREEZING" House
The dog's name? "Snowflake"?
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The Cancun affair: Cruz vowed to do everything we can to get the power turned on in Texas and to make sure that this never happens again, but he spent more time cleaning up the public relations disaster caused by the trip, appearing last night in an interview with Fox News. I had initially planned to stay through the weekend, Cruz admitted during the interview.
Nobody likes Ted Cruz. This was the place that Ted Cruz was starting from earlier this week. Then he went to Cancun. He went to Cancun, where it is mostly sunny and in the low 80s, while many of his ice-blasted constituents were without heating and plumbing, watching their ceilings collapse, huddling in warming centers, defecating in buckets, and generally not packing for a few days on the Yucatán Peninsula, our colleague Dan Zak writes.
The scandal broke wide open after neighbors leaked group chats showing Heidi Cruz's vacation planning: Further, Reform Austin has acquired text messages from a neighborhood group chat in River Oaks, the exclusive neighborhood where Cruz lives when he is in Houston, Reform Austin's staff reported. In the messages, shared on the condition of anonymity to protect the identities of other chat members, Heidi Cruz, the wife of Ted Cruz, is apparently complaining to neighbors about the freezing cold temperatures in her home on Monday night, and asking them if they wanted to join them in their trip to sunny Cancun.
And Snowflake, the Cruz family's poodle, was apparently left home.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/19/power-up-texas-republicans-led-by-cruz-taking-heat-deep-freeze-batters-state/
jimfields33
(15,471 posts)They need a pet protective agency like they do for children. Judges should have the ability to take animals who are not taken care of properly. Cruz family at least would get a visit from them to see if the dogs cared for.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)I treat my horses better ... and they live outside ...
All of them are wearing heavy winter turnout coats ... and I pick the ice blocks from their hooves twice daily ... they are on extra rations of sweet feed and have a big bale of hay, as well as having a shelter ...
Who would abandon their pet to freeze?
yardwork
(61,418 posts)This shows what an entitled bubble they live in. Never occurred to Heidi that this might look bad?
moose65
(3,164 posts)These Republicans are supposedly intelligent people. Don't they take 5 minutes to even think about how their actions will be perceived? Like it or not, being a politician has certain responsibilities, one of which is to not look like a total asshole in the middle of an emergency.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)leaving Ted to suck it up and pretend like he cared about helping his constituents.
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)That group must be a never ending barrage of ego stroking and brown nose comments to get the king and queen to acknowledge them. They would be the type to relish in people falling over to kiss their asses.
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Its cute that all you little lovelies believe that youre the same as Ted and I. Here are some head-pats, my dear commoners.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)JHB
(37,132 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,453 posts)Heard it on Steph's show. No other attribution.
tanyev
(42,360 posts)couldn't they have met him at the airport? You know, to protect Fleddy Cruz from the angry soshalist mobs he was expecting. Why did his staff contact HPD, who surely had their hands full with actual emergencies?
crickets
(25,896 posts)marlakay
(11,370 posts)No care of temp or the fact that dogs are not like cats, you have to get dog sitter to leave them for extended period of time.
TheBlackAdder
(28,075 posts).
The 'Lives long in Texas' would be a play on what a snowflake is.
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