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Related: About this forumTed Cruz Takes A Victory Lap with the King Street Patriots
HOUSTON--After Ted Cruzs turn on the national stagethe filibuster, the shutdown, the flirtation with self-inflicted economic meltdownthe man has probably earned a little me-time. A little break from the arm-twisting and the name-calling, a chance to joke around with a few old friends.
Sometimes you want to go where everybody chants your name.
For Cruz on Monday night, that was King Street Patriots headquarters in Houston, home to Texas preeminent bunch of red-blooded, freedom-loving and positively nonpartisan warriors for the old stars and stripes.
Before a standing-room crowd in King Streets warehouse, Cruz made a symbolic Texas homecomingon a tour that continues Tuesday night at a tea party-sponsored Thank You Ted Cruz party in Arlingtonto share the good word from the front line.
The King Street Patriots founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, made sure Cruz left with a souvenir from the occasion: a copy of War and Peace signed by members of the crowd, which she suggested he use as ammunition for his next filibuster. The book, she joked, is widely considered to be one of the nations greatest works of fiction
like the Obamacare bill.
Michael Berrythe conservative Houston talk radio jock who once said he hoped someone blows up the Islamic community center at Ground Zerohad the honor of revving up the crowd before Cruz took the stage.
More at http://www.texasobserver.org/ted-cruz-takes-victory-lap/ .
[font color=green]Question to Ms. Engelbrecht:
Are you a product of TEA Party education efforts? War and Peace isn't one of the nation's greatest works of fiction. It was written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.[/font]
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(1,357 posts)A week after allegations emerged that conservative radio host and former Houston city councilman Michael Berry was involved in a hit-and-run accident outside a Montrose gay bar, Berry is responding to the controversy.
At 11 p.m. on Jan. 31, Berry allegedly drove his Chevy Tahoe in reverse for 70 feet outside of T.C.'s Show Bar before hitting a parked car, causing $1,500 in damage, and fleeing the scene. T.C.'s bouncer Tuderia Bennett, the owner of the car, says he witnessed the accident and could identify Berry as the driver.
A police investigation traced the license plate of the Tahoe to Berry, and bar owners provided surveillance video of Berry inside the gay bar just before the time of the accident.
On his KTRH show on Tuesday morning, Berry slammed KPRC's report as a "smear campaign" by "unnamed sources," threatening that "Channel 2, Ive got my sights on you. You can smear my name without me but Im not going down without a fight," before referring to the station as "S.O.B.s."
http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city_life/02-23-12-conservative-talk-show-host-michael-berry-says-he-went-into-gay-bar-for-the-cold-beer-claims-he-has-never-bashed-gays/