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TexasTowelie

(111,311 posts)
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:40 PM Oct 2017

Cruz calls hate group watchdog 'leftist institution' with 'sorry record'

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz was talking to a receptive audience, eager to cheer him on. And he delivered.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate-group watchdog, is a “leftist institution" with a “sorry record,” the Texas Republican insisted.

“If they’re coming after you, you’re probably doing something right,” he told the appreciative crowd at the ACT for America National Conference and Legislative Briefing.

ACT for America, a nonprofit lobbying organization founded in 2007, calls itself a “national security grassroots” organization

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article176821576.html

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Cruz calls hate group watchdog 'leftist institution' with 'sorry record' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
"if they are coming after you, you are probably doing something right"......uhmm. No! chelsea0011 Oct 2017 #1
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #2
No, he hasn't. TexasTowelie Oct 2017 #3
Well, that answers that, LOL. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #4
That site is a catalog of nazis and other criminal types. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2017 #5
He needs to shut up and go back to looking at porn texasfiddler Oct 2017 #6
It is time to give the SPLC some more money Gothmog Oct 2017 #7

Rhiannon12866

(203,009 posts)
4. Well, that answers that, LOL.
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:50 PM
Oct 2017

What I really can't understand is how he's able to support Trump after the terrible things he said about him ("Lyin' Ted" ), not to mention his wife and family!

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