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Seth Meyers - Supreme Court Allows Trump's Tax Returns to Be Released - Monologue 2/22/21 (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 OP
Twelve hours in Cancun with Ted Cruz seems like an eternity in hell to me. TexasTowelie Feb 2021 #1
Have you run across Ted Cruz in your travels?? Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #2
He may have been within 10 miles of me when I lived in Irving about a decade ago. TexasTowelie Feb 2021 #3
Well I can sympathize, I also want to avoid Elise Stefanik like the plague Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #4
My representative is a Republican and also a Southwestern University alum, Pete Sessions. TexasTowelie Feb 2021 #6
Oh, I remember him! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author TexasTowelie Feb 2021 #5
LOL LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2021 #8

TexasTowelie

(111,974 posts)
1. Twelve hours in Cancun with Ted Cruz seems like an eternity in hell to me.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 05:46 AM
Feb 2021

Making a note to myself to put the Suicide Prevention Hotline on speed dial in case I ever am compelled to spend that much time with Ted Cruz.

Rhiannon12866

(204,816 posts)
2. Have you run across Ted Cruz in your travels??
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 05:57 AM
Feb 2021

Or has he come to you? He must campaign somewhere, but chances are he'll give you a heads up!

TexasTowelie

(111,974 posts)
3. He may have been within 10 miles of me when I lived in Irving about a decade ago.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 06:12 AM
Feb 2021

However, I think that I've been able to maintain at least a fifty mile buffer zone from him over the last seven or eight years.

Rhiannon12866

(204,816 posts)
4. Well I can sympathize, I also want to avoid Elise Stefanik like the plague
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 06:19 AM
Feb 2021

I'd love to see my senators in person and I did see Kirsten Gillibrand once since she used to be my congresswoman, but after she became senator we did have Democratic representation for another term. I worked for and met her successor, Scott Murphy. He actually lives not far from me. But he won the first election and lost the second so we're a Republican district yet again.

TexasTowelie

(111,974 posts)
6. My representative is a Republican and also a Southwestern University alum, Pete Sessions.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 06:35 AM
Feb 2021

He used to represent the northwest Dallas suburbs before he was defeated by Colin Allred. Now he has set up shop in Waco to represent the district that stretches between College Station and Waco.

Rhiannon12866

(204,816 posts)
7. Oh, I remember him!
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 06:49 AM
Feb 2021

And I have a fellow alumni in the news as well! Tom Vilsack was a fellow graduate of Hamilton College as was his wife, Christie Bell (who also ran for public office, though she didn't win). I know he's not that popular here, but it is kinda cool to me since it was a pretty small school.

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