New York has plenty of values that Ted Cruz wasn’t counting on

With the New York primary just days away and the airwaves filled with presidential candidates talking about New York values, two guys were discussing the subject during a coffee break on Wall Street.

“Hey Steve,” one friend called to another. “What’s a New York value?”

“Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness — and Ted Cruz is a complete a--hole,” said Steve Giannantonio, who works in finance. “That’s a New York value.”

Conversations like this have been going for a few months now, ever since Texas Sen. Ted Cruz first ridiculed what he called “New York values,” by which he said he meant “socially liberal” values. In response, New Yorkers, including his GOP rival Donald Trump, united in their New Yorkerness, saying he really blew it. The tabloids deployed front pages telling Cruz to take the “FU” train, and depicting the Statue of Liberty showing him a middle finger. When Cruz gave an impassioned speech at a GOP fundraiser in the city last week, attendees chatted amongst themselves, clinking forks on plates, exercising the New York value of ignoring a yelling person.

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