Rep. King: NY won't 'abandon' Texas despite 'hypocrite' Ted Cruz
Source: The Hill
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 08/28/17 10:28 AM EDT
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Saturday that he'll support financial relief for Texas in the aftermath of tropical storm Harvey, contrasting his support for emergency relief with Texas lawmakers' opposition to an aid package for New York and New Jersey after 2012's Hurricane Sandy.
King singled out Sen. Ted Cruz (R), who voted against Hurricane Sandy aid. Both Cruz and Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) voted against the Sandy disaster aid, arguing that it included wasteful spending that wasn't related to the hurricane.
"Ted Cruz was one of the leaders of trying to keep New York and Long Island and New Jersey from getting the funding we needed, and now he's the first one in asking for aid for Texas," King said, according to a local New York news outlet. "But as badly as I feel toward Ted Cruz, and what a hypocrite he is, I'm not going to take it out on the people of Texas."
King also took to Twitter to slam Cruz for opposing the Sandy aid package.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/348247-rep-king-ny-wont-abandon-texas-despite-hypocrite-ted-cruz
Squinch
(51,007 posts)OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)be voted out. In effect, Texas opposed the Sandy relief bill for New Jersey and New York. A counter-measure is required.
The least that Pete can do is to reduce the scope and funding of the Texas relief bill to deliver some political hurt to Ted and John. Otherwise, Texas learns nothing about the meaning of being in the Union -- those two jerks think that they are in the Confederation.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)But other than the far-right crazies, no one bothers to vote here.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)I can't believe these fuckwads, playing politics at a time like this.
Everybody gets their digs in while they can.
packman
(16,296 posts)Sorta encapsulates the difference between Republicans ( I got mine, screw you) and Democrats ( One nation, one people).
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)to play nice with that nest of cobras until there are no Democrats and no United States of America left.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)on account of his gross, unAmerican hypocrisy...
Deplorable.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)another thing I thought I would never do.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Thank you, Rep. King, YOU are America.