Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Doing Ted Cruz's Job To Provide Texas Storm Aid

[JonLP24]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has helped raise $2 million in direct relief for Texans struggling with power outages and freezing temperatures, and she announced Friday that she’s heading the state to help distribute supplies to people in need.

In other words, the Democratic congresswoman from New York City is doing more to help Texans rebound from the state’s duel crises ― a devastating ice storm in the midst of a pandemic ― than their own Republican senator, Ted Cruz, who raced back to his home on Thursday after being widely criticized for slipping away to Cancun, Mexico, on a family trip.

Ocasio-Cortez said she’ll be meeting with Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) in Houston to help get supplies out to people and amplify the region’s needs and solutions.

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“Charity isn’t a replacement for good governance, but we won’t turn away from helping people in need when things hit the fan,” the congresswoman said in a follow-up tweet. “People understand that now is the time for collective action and doing what we can w/ whatever we’ve got.”

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_602ff8bec5b67c32961d5f86/amp?__twitter_impression=true

[drray23]

1. So is Beto O'Rouke.

AOC is raising a lot of money for helping Texans. Beto is focused on on the ground efforts with an army of volunteers placing phonecalls to find people needing help, getting them to a warm place, bringing them meals etc..

On the republican side, nothing...

[LizBeth]

3. Beto was in there day one, trying to save lives in the moment. Yes.

[Dem4Life1102]

4. Actually AOC is headed to Texas to help

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And Beto thanked her for her efforts.

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[Celerity]

8. AOC & Beto O'Rourke Fundraise, Provide Relief For Texas While Ted Cruz Jets Off To Mexico

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke are being praised for aiding Texans after a winter storm left millions freezing and without power.

https://nowthisnews.com/news/aoc-beto-orourke-fundraise-provide-relief-for-texas-while-ted-cruz-jets-off-to-mexico

Two politicians are helping to provide resources for residents in Texas who went days without electricity, heat, or running water, while the state’s own Sen. Ted Cruz (R) is under fire for flying to Mexico with his family. This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who narrowly lost to Cruz during the 2018 midterms, worked to provide Texans with supplies and conducted welfare checks, respectively, after the state was hit with an unprecedented winter storm.

Millions of people in Texas went without power for days after the winter storm took out the state’s power grid, and the American South has seen record-breaking freezing temperatures. At least 47 people have died as a result of the extreme weather as of Friday, including at least 30 people in Texas, according to the Washington Post.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Friday that the relief fund she set up raised more than $2 million in one day and will benefit five Texas-based organizations. She also said she would be traveling to Texas on Friday to “distribute supplies and help amplify needs & solutions." “Charity isn’t a replacement for good governance, but we won’t turn away from helping people in need when things hit the fan,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

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O’Rourke tweeted at Ocasio-Cortez, thanking her and other contributors for the relief fund. The former member of Congress also worked to provide Texans with assistance, including tweeting out resources and organizing a phone bank that conducted welfare checks on senior citizens. Volunteers made more than 784,000 phone calls that helped senior people find shelter, food, and water, O’Rourke said.

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[Blue Owl]

2. Meanwhile Ted's frying up some bacon on a gun barrel

[ChubbyStar]

7. Is he planning to shoot his other foot now?

The Cancun debacle isn't enough?

[Midnight Writer]

5. Ted could call up his supporters, organize them to help their communities.

But they wouldn't participate.

If they weren't assholes, they wouldn't be Cruz supporters.

[Arazi]

6. K&R