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UTUSN

(70,695 posts)
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:23 PM May 2022

Freed veteran's family calls Cancun Cuban CRUZ an "embarrassment" & a S.o.B.

Texas used to have a Liberal senator - hard to believe, but true - named Ralph YARBOROUGH. Part of the JFK scenario in going to Dallas was to tamp down ill will between John CONNOLLY and him. We're so used to modern day hatred from TeaBaggers and Wingnuts that the myth has been flourishing that there used to be a Camelot of bipartisan good will very foreign to today's polarization. I remember the John Birch Society and GOLDWATER before he resurrected himself, and remember how Texas Repukes were just as sick as they are now, and they used to call Ralph "The Little Embarrassment."

Well, here's back-atcha, Cankie CRUZ:

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https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/trevor-reeds-dad-accuses-embarrassment-cruz-of-lack-of-action/

Ted Cruz responds to Trevor Reed’s dad calling him an ‘embarrassment’

…. “He didn’t do anything,” Reed’s father, Joey, told the Dallas Morning News. “He’s an embarrassment to the state of Texas, let me just say that. I don’t care what or who runs against him, I will work for their campaign to defeat that son of a bitch.” ….

Joey Reed told the Dallas Morning News that he and his wife had reached out to Cruz’s office several times since Trevor’s arrest. During one phone call, they claimed, one of the senator’s staffers told them Cruz would be unable to offer public help. ….

Cruz also reportedly called the Reed family to congratulate them, but his message was not well received.

“And I told him right on the phone, I said, ‘Where have you been for the last two and a half years?’” Joey Reed recounted. “I hit him point-blank: ‘We are not appreciative.’ He said, ‘Well, anything I can do,’ and I said, ‘We needed your help two and a half years ago, not now.’” ….

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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Well that's gratitude for you
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:34 PM
May 2022

After all the time Sen. Cruz spent scouring the alleys and byways of Cancun searching for Reed, and what thanks does he get? The back of Joey Reed's hand! Does Joey Reed appreciate at all how many donkey shows Sen. Cruz sat through, allegedly, hoping to find Joey's son?

Kid Berwyn

(14,904 posts)
2. Cruz is Canadian of Cuban ancestry. HE can be prez, bec. IOKIYAR.
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:45 PM
May 2022

His mum was born in USA. Haven’t seen the birth certificate, though.

UTUSN

(70,695 posts)
4. Speaking of the 1st Gen. Cuban Exiles, they got *way* special status not given others
Wed May 11, 2022, 02:00 PM
May 2022

because of the then Red hysteria, and they hop-skipped right past other groups (Mexican-Americans, Asians) - how many Mexican American high office holders and presidential candidates are there? And the Exiles were native wingnuts in their wingnut dictatorship before coming here, and they hated JFK and the Democratic Party. What else.






Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. GOOD for Reed! Biden and other members of congress got his son released.
Wed May 11, 2022, 01:57 PM
May 2022

Cruz did oppose Putin's Nordstream 2 pipeline for years, but that was in cynical service to his petroleum donors and he's otherwise been as useful an asset to Russia as most Republican senators. (Very!)

Carlitos Brigante

(26,501 posts)
5. Respect! I'm glad he didn't back down and told him right to his fish monster face (OK, thru the
Wed May 11, 2022, 02:02 PM
May 2022

phone, but you know what I mean )

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