Watch out South Texas and RGV: Teddy is coming to town (updated 9/7/2013)
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is beginning a two-day tour of the lower Texas-Mexico border to tout his record in the U.S. Senate and talk about border security.
The freshman Texas Republican senator also will continue his campaign to press Congress to defund programs of the Affordable Health Care Act in stops in Mission, McAllen and Laredo.
Cruz begins the tour with his Mission and McAllen stops on Tuesday, followed by a stop in Laredo on Wednesday.
More at http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Sen-Ted-Cruz-Begins-2-Day-Border-Tour-222147161.html .
[font color=green]I believe that qualifies as a Maalox moment.[/font] 
[font color=navy]UPDATE:
No Shame for "Sell Out" Ted Cruz As He Visits South Texas Border Region for the First Time
In a region that is burdened with the highest healthcare cost in the country and whose economy depends heavily on immigration and strong trade policies, one would think any decent human being with a soul in their heart would abstain from preaching to the people here that everything they believe in is absolutely wrong, and would avoid making it a point in his very first visit as a guest, that as their U.S. Senator, he will do everything in his power to take these things away from them so that they may further dwell in poverty.
That decent human being is not Ted Cruz.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz made stops in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo this week, as he continues his tour of town hall meetings across the State of Texas.
The events in South Texas were not open to the public, however. Those who wanted to see Cruz speak and ask him questions would have to pay. At his luncheon in Mission, Texas, each table cost $500 dollars and only 35 tables were available at the location.
Over two dozen protesters from La Union del Pueblo Entero were outside the establishment waiting for Cruz. One protester had an inflatable floating doll representing Cruz with the words "Vendido," meaning sell out in Spanish. This is a possible reference to Cruz's immigrant and Hispanic roots, yet extremely hypocritical opposition to immigration reform.[/font]
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14039/no-shame-for-ted-cruz-as-he-visits-south-texas-border-region-for-the-first-time .
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