Ted Cruz Attacks Beto O'Rourke for Denouncing Police Murder in a Black Church
Source: Daily Intelligencer
10:27 A.M.
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
Botham Shem Jean was murdered in his apartment by a police officer, and the most exculpatory account for her actions that she mistakenly believed she was in her own home is highly damning. Dallas police subsequently leaked the claim that Jean possessed a small amount of marijuana in his home in a blatant attempt to tarnish his image and retroactively justify the murder.
Texas Senate candidate Beto ORourke has denounced this incident as an example of racial injustice in policing, of which there is overwhelming evidence exists on a wide scale. (Radley Balko recently compiled a vast store of rigorous evidence of the criminal justice system mistreating African-Americans.) ORourkes opponent, Ted Cruz, who is attempting to paint him as a left-wing radical, tweeted a short clip of ORourke denouncing Jeans murder during a town hall at the Good Street Baptist Church in Dallas:
From Cruzs point of view, the clip is damning of his opponent. It is not clear precisely which part of ORourkes argument he disagrees with that its wrong for police to murder an innocent person in their home? That it was wrong for them to release the claim that the murder victim had some pot in his house? That ORourke opposes the killings of unarmed black men in general?
Cruz has not taken issue with any of these specific points on the campaign trail. Instead he has tended to dissolve the issue into a broader question of respect for the police, which he displays with his characteristic smarm. Nowhere in this clip does ORourke attack the police in general, dispute the need for effective policing, or insist that all or most officers are racist.
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/ted-cruz-attacks-beto-orourke-for-denouncing-police-murder.html
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)Shit, Ted Cruz has got to be the most repulsive man ever to have his photo taken. He makes my flesh crawl.
That said, Cruz must be panicking. Hes throwing spaghetti at the wall.
Frequency Kenneth
(78 posts)Then I look at Ted Cruz, and I wonder...
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)no offense to actual lizards.)
xor
(1,204 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)their strengths.
certainot
(9,090 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)totally misdirected and misguided political attacks...
He's not well liked in Congress from what I hear. I can see why after I've heard him during the 2016 primaries.
You can tell he's getting desperate...and I can see why, his opponent is smart, intelligent, and not one to take things lying down, and sharp on his feet.
Cruz is definitely out of his element and is clearly lagging in intelligent responses, i.e., O'Rourke taking people's BBQ away or banning BBQ...or something crazy like this. What an idiot.
certainot
(9,090 posts)because that's true.
cruz, more than most con reps and senators, channels the alternate reality that limbaugh runs the fertilizer factory for.
any time cruz says he suggests he knows what he knows what "the people want" he's talking about what he's picked from the smorgasbord of prechewed talking points limbaugh regurgitates from the GOP think tanks and sold to the dittohead teabags in the talk radio states.
if a dem candidate invokes "limbaugh" he will immediately connect with the trump audience
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)He was sent here to observe, but he's fucking up the mission.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And this will incite more to leave this idiot and back Beto. No one lies as much as cruz does that isn't corrupt, and him protecting putin and trump is a good example of who he's loyal too, and its not the American people. HE will continue to vote to destroy Medicaid , Medicare, and now they want to destroy Social Security , and he's all in with them to do it. Cruz also voted for their tax scam robbing millions of health care to give their wealthy donors their tax windfall , or from bribes they were given to their campaigns. If any money was funneled from russians for putin to cruz it will come out , and he'll be toast. Beto's kicking his ass all over the place , and its growing against cruz , and for Beto. Cruz is the most hated person in all of Congress for good reasons. He's another serial liar too.
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
MBS This message was self-deleted by its author.