Cons claim they voted down the Sandy relief bill because it was filled with pork. Don't believe them

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A platoon of Texas lawmakers who voted against aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2013 are scurrying to explain their votes in advance of being asked to vote for the same relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

The explanation they’ve crafted almost unanimously to avoid being tagged as hypocrites is that they favored Sandy relief, but the bill they were presented as senators and representatives was filled with unrelated pork. As supporters of fiscal responsibility, you see, they simply couldn’t in good conscience vote for the $50.5-billion relief measure.

Don’t believe them. According to an incredibly detailed analysis performed in 2013 by the Congressional Research Service, virtually every cent of the Sandy relief bill was related to damage from that storm.

Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) voices a rank untruth about a Sandy relief bill

Nevertheless, both of the state’s senators and all but one of its 24 GOP members of Congress voted against the Sandy relief bill. Depicting the bill as a side of pork is their story, and they’re sticking to it.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-sandy-pork-20170830-story.html

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1. Cruz said that only 1/3 of Sandy $ went toward relief.

When someone fact checked it and Cruz heard about it he lied again, insisting HIS estimate was the accurate one.

What?! Huh?!

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2. republican alternate 'facts'

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3. ugh.

My hatred for Cruz burns with the heat of a thousand suns.