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As if this guy wasn't already odious enough. From the Huffington Post (link below article)
Volunteers for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's Republican presidential campaign will be distributing water on Wednesday to residents of Flint, Michigan -- but apparently, only to anti-abortion groups.
Wendy Lynn Day, the Michigan state director for the Cruz campaign, announced on Facebook last week that the water will be delivered to crisis pregnancy centers for "expecting moms and moms of little ones."
Those aid efforts will assist only a small portion of the Flint's approximately 100,000 residents, who have been suffering from lead poisoning and a lack of clean water since 2014, when the city decided to cut costs by switching its wateCommenters on Twitter denounced the senator's targeted donations. Pro-abortion rights advocates say crisis pregnancy centers use misinformation and manipulation to convince pregnant women to forgo abortions.
NARAL Pro-Choice America called the Cruz campaign's announcement "a new low." Other commenters criticized the donations as a politically opportunistic move.r supply.
Day reportedly said the donations underscored Cruz's "pro-life values." Her Facebook post didn't mention whether the campaign will also donate water to children who are already suffering from lead poisoning, or to other city residents.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-flint-water-abortion_us_56a649b4e4b0404eb8f23abb
valerief
(53,235 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)malaise
(269,053 posts)follow my way or die from poison from one of my colleagues.
What a despicable excuse for a human being.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Talk about 1,000 years of darkness.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)where the sun doesn't shine.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)hits a new and lower low.
He's several hundred miles into the Earth's crust at this point. With luck he will hit molten rock soon and be fried like an egg.
flygal
(3,231 posts)in this day and age a major candidate for President is so far ahead based on pandering to the religious extreme. How much backward can we get?!