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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo apparently Ted Cruz is asking the Police to guard him on arrival at the Houston Airport?
https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-cancun-2650611169/?Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is flying home amid widespread outrage over his decision to fly to Cancun while millions of his residents are freezing amid mass power outages.
Now ABC News reporter Ben Siegel brings word that Cruz's staff reached out to the Houston Police Department to see if they could supply personnel to help the senator make his way out of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. .................(more)
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So apparently Ted Cruz is asking the Police to guard him on arrival at the Houston Airport? (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2021
OP
Doesn't the HPD need all hands on deck to address humanitarian needs in Houston?
yellowcanine
Feb 2021
#8
I read the story as he was being escorted TO the airport yesterday for his departure
sweetloukillbot
Feb 2021
#13
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. Good idea. Republicans have guns and aren't afraid to use them
Hed best hide.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. LOL!
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)3. Who
pays for this?
jpak
(41,760 posts)4. Be a man and face the music
Fucking coward
Yup
leftieNanner
(15,172 posts)6. I was going to call him an Arrogant Asshole
But Fucking Coward works too.
If he's so "smart" (lookin' at you Princeton and Harvard), how could he not know this would be a bad move??
KarenS
(4,088 posts)9. 2 things,,,,
1. That sense of entitlement runs deep.
2. Don't they get that Police Departments are Socialism? Get some private protection!!
Siwsan
(26,298 posts)5. Where are those Proud Boys when you need them, Ted? Oh, that's right. In jail.
UTUSN
(70,748 posts)7. Having a fantasy here: The cops cuff Rafael and frog march him!1
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)8. Doesn't the HPD need all hands on deck to address humanitarian needs in Houston?
Ted Cruz manages to expose his political tin ear once again.
dalton99a
(81,631 posts)10. Fucking drama whore. Not many people can get to the airport to greet him
choie
(4,111 posts)11. Throw the bastard to the wolves.
n/t
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)12. I hope none of them show and he's lambasted by his constituents. P.O.S.
sweetloukillbot
(11,087 posts)13. I read the story as he was being escorted TO the airport yesterday for his departure
Unless this is new reporting tied to the rumours he's coming back from vacation already
marlakay
(11,500 posts)14. I think he is coming back early because of
Backlash, but how could he think people would not find out?
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)15. Someone posted a photo in a different thread, with 2 Houston PD cops
standing just a few feet away from him before his departure.
mindem
(1,580 posts)16. He needs to get up off of his lazy ass
pull up his bootstraps and protect himself. Set an example Teddy Boy.