GOP congressman calls Cruz remarks to Christian group ‘outrageous and incendiary’

GOP congressman calls Cruz remarks to Christian group ‘outrageous and incendiary’

By Robert Costa at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/11/gop-congressman-calls-cruz-remarks-to-christian-group-outrageous-and-incendiary/

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I am saddened to see some here, not everyone, but some here are so consumed with hate,” Cruz said as he was booed and before leaving the stage. “If you will not stand with Israel and Jews, then I will not stand with you.”

Dent, whose district has a large population of Americans of Syrian and Lebanese descent, said he sympathized with those who were unhappy with Cruz, and wondered if the senator's intent was to inflame the audience in order to gain traction with tea party activists ahead of a potential 2016 presidential run.

"I support Israel, but what Senator Cruz did was outrageous and incendiary," Dent said. "He showed a true lack of sensitivity for the people he was speaking to, especially the religious leaders who were there. It was a political speech, inappropriate and, overall, an uncomfortable moment."

Dent added that Cruz seemed to be speaking "for another audience" beyond the ballroom that would later watch the video.




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