Ted Cruz shows up to vote on Capitol Hill in gym clothes

[appleannie1]

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Ted-Cruz-shorts-basketball-Todd-Sunhwae-Kim-16345835.php

Sen. Ted Cruz comes to vote in workout clothes, telling reporters they scheduled a vote “in the middle” of his basketball game

Gym shorts, sweaty T-shirt and black tennis shoes. The man has no respect for anything.

[walkingman]

1. A disgusting POS

[TheBlackAdder]

33. How could he fit in them? Gym Jordan is only 5 foot 4 inches tall? 😀

[malaise]

2. Isn't there a dress code?

Who let him on the floor?

[DFW]

3. Maybe Cruz was on Booze

Thought he was back in Cancún?

[appleannie1]

4. Good question. But then rules are only for Democrats. GOP have "rights".

[Mr.Bill]

5. WARNING!

Link in OP contains actual picture of Ted Cruz in gym clothes.

[Terry_M]

6. ah a good reminder of just what partisan over-reacting looks like

be honest - if this was a dem senator would you have bothered to post? with the same amount of vitriol?

[appleannie1]

8. Actually yes. But then I was taught there is a time and place for gym clothes and the floor of the

Senate is not that place. It is called respect. I still wear dress clothes to church for the same reason.

[Terry_M]

14. If you say so

I suppose my reaction was more about the collective than you individually -
You see a post like this ridiculing a senator for something small and then another ridiculing some right-wing post ridiculing one of the democratic reps/senators over their dress codes.
Maybe they do come from different people.

That aside, personally, from a very deep - I hate dress codes mindset, always asking and wearing the acceptable minimum (are polos ok??), I applaud Ted here as I would any dem.

[ornotna]

15. What about Ted do you applaud?

Inquiring minds and all.

[Terry_M]

24. showing up in gym clothing when the situation calls for it

[NurseJackie]

37. No, the "situation" didn't call for anything. CRUZ "called for it". It was HIS decision...

No, the "situation" didn't call for anything. CRUZ "called for it". It was HIS decision... NOT because of some surprise that was foisted upon him. Being disrespectful is what HE wanted to do. There wasn't anything "situational" about this that was unavoidable. He knew the vote was coming. This was not a surprise to him, not an interruption.

His most important responsibility is to his senate duties and his obligation to his constituents (and the nation)... he chose to play basketball intentionally create a situation where he could draw attention to himself. (If he had been swimming at the Y, would he have shown up in Speedos?)

He's just as bad as Jim Jordan. It's time for the RETURN of some basic institutional norms... and a professional dress-code among our elected representatives is one that's long overdue.

[Terry_M]

40. stop putting people into boxes!

[NurseJackie]

41. Oh good lord. Spare me! Nobody is doing that.

stop putting people into boxes!

Something else you won't catch ME doing is defending boorish behavior from assholes like Cruz.

[Volaris]

34. I'm with you. Senate dress code is NOT thing I'm gonna harp on the man about,

Unless hes making a habit of disobeying it.

Its about the least odious thing about him. Now, I WILL say it would been slightly more classy of him to just move his court time by 2 hours, but that's just me.

[NurseJackie]

38. It was intentional. He's a cad. An oaf. A heel.

Ted "let's-go-to-Mexico-while-Texas-freezes" Cruz is as contemptible as they come. He deserves NO "free passes" from anyone about anything.

[meadowlander]

31. If a Dem senator commented publicly that they think congressional scheduling should revolve around

their workout schedule, I like to think that I would.

[walkingman]

36. Your right - but party has nothing to do with it. Ted Cruz (my Senator) is a

disgusting human being. A typical "holier-than-thou" piece of garbage who has support of those that are just as despicable.

[Progressive Jones]

7. Well, he IS a member of the White Trash Party... nt

[LanternWaste]

9. Thank God he didn't wear a dapper tan suit to a press conference... as that would be disrespectful

[keithbvadu2]

16. Un-suitable to be sure

[Casady1]

10. I can only imagine

How bad he was at bball.

[NightWatcher]

11. He's probably too scared to shower in the gym locker room

[Bev54]

12. That man does not work out!

[Deuxcents]

13. A flaming absolute a$$hole

He had time to pack for Cancun to catch his flight from an ice storm.. he could not find a jacket, at least? The lack of respect is disgusting.. as is he.

[Nevilledog]

17. It gets better.....he's wearing the Nikes he said he donated to Goodwill

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Resist Programming 🛰
@RzstProgramming
Thread: Ted Cruz was busted today wearing a pair of Nike shoes that he said were “headed to Goodwill” in a 2019 tweet.

That tweet called for a boycott of Nike after they listened to Colin Kaepernick and dropped their Betsy Ross flag shoe.
Image
Image

The grey pair on the far right are the shoes he was wearing on the flight to Cancun.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Guess he thought he was showing off his manly bod

[appleannie1]

18. I guess a better thing is why was he playing basketball in the middle of a workday when other Senate

members were near to taking a bill to the floor? And did he not have time to pull on a pair of street pants at the very least before leaving the gym? Or could it be that his party is sooo goood at stalling things that he never imagined there would be a vote today so why show up in the first place. Getting paid to play basketball is much more fun.

[IcyPeas]

25. Thats what i was wondering.

Some of these people dont seem to work much. They play basketball or do press conferences or go to rallies. They're not doing much work for their constituents.

[crickets]

28. This.

“It must be nice to be inconvenienced by your day job,” one Twitter user wrote. “How dare they schedule a vote in the middle of a Tuesday. The audacity.”

[dclarston13]

19. Why is this at all important?

We know the guy is a schmuck. He voted and no surprise in how he voted.

[madinmaryland]

20. Cancun Cruz borrowed Gym Jordan's clothes. WTF is up with that?

[Baked Potato]

21. Daffy Raffy is bad for Texas and the country. Nt

[argyl]

22. Ted Cruz playing basketball? I don't believe it.

[Trueblue1968]

26. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez Ted the DickHead is Ugly !!!

[lame54]

27. He'll do anything to...

Get his nickname changed from Cancun Cruz

[senseandsensibility]

29. I can't believe he works out

It doesn't look like it.

[Polybius]

30. Hate Cruz, but I hate dress codes even more

The whole suit and tie thing is a relic from the past.

[Hekate]

32. Cruz is classless. He thumbs his nose & shows deliberate disrespect for the body he works in...

There’s no way that a conflict between a basketball game and a US Senate vote exists.

On a much smaller scale of things, I recall I was rather puzzled by one member of a county commission I was chairing complaining that the meetings interfered with his vacations and he was sorry about the missed meetings. By that time I’d been on the commission for years and somehow had never had that problem. I rather dryly told him that I scheduled my vacations around the needs of the commission and not the other way around.

And by the way, dear iconoclastic DUers who think dirty sweaty gym clothes make some kind of statement we should be impressed with: grow up. There’s a time and a place for everything, and your sartorial choices actually do say something about you.

[tenderfoot]

35. Not at all surprised with those defending Cruz's disrespectful/flippant attitude toward governing

eom

[LiberalFighter]

39. Of course he is lying.

[Stinky The Clown]

42. Paywall

So no clue what himself looks like in his gym togs

[appleannie1]

43. You have not missed anything But

If you googled Ted Cruz in gym clothes heading to vote you probably would find a free link. A number of papers carried it.

Here is one I found that does not have a paywall. Most of the newspapers in Texas do https://polinews.org/ted-cruz-showed-up-on-capitol-hill-to-vote-in-gym-clothes-because-he-was-reportedly-in-the-middle-of-playing-basketball/

[tinrobot]

44. Way worse than a tan suit?

Attacking people for their clothing is a non-starter.

Cruz is reprehensible enough in his politics. Attack him on that.