Fogbow

On Aug. 4, 2019, the day after a gunman who had posted a hateful diatribe against Hispanics fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, a leader of a tea party group in Texas said on Facebook: “You’re not going to demographically replace a once proud, strong people without getting blow-back.”

His wife, the founder of the group, in the Fort Worth suburbs of Tarrant County, added in a comment: “I don’t condone the actions, but I certainly understand where they came from.”

Ten days later, amid a brewing backlash over the comments by Fred and Julie McCarty, the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party posted an undated testimonial from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) wishing the group a happy 10th anniversary as it rebranded itself as True Texas Project.

“Thank you for the incredible work you do,” Cruz said, in the only on-camera endorsement from an elected official posted on the group’s Facebook and YouTube pages to mark the occasion. “Julie, Fred, thank you for your passion.”

Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:38 pm https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... story.html

On Aug. 4, 2019, the day after a gunman who had posted a hateful diatribe against Hispanics fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, a leader of a tea party group in Texas said on Facebook: “You’re not going to demographically replace a once proud, strong people without getting blow-back.”

His wife, the founder of the group, in the Fort Worth suburbs of Tarrant County, added in a comment: “I don’t condone the actions, but I certainly understand where they came from.”

Ten days later, amid a brewing backlash over the comments by Fred and Julie McCarty, the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party posted an undated testimonial from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) wishing the group a happy 10th anniversary as it rebranded itself as True Texas Project.

“Thank you for the incredible work you do,” Cruz said, in the only on-camera endorsement from an elected official posted on the group’s Facebook and YouTube pages to mark the occasion. “Julie, Fred, thank you for your passion.”

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:39 pm

Cruz does realize his last name is.....Cruz, right? Pretty sure that's Hispanic.

“I don’t condone the actions, but I certainly understand where they came from.”

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:35 pm

“I don’t condone the actions, but I certainly understand where they came from.”

Which is saying you condone the actions.

Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:38 pm https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... story.html

On Aug. 4, 2019, the day after a gunman who had posted a hateful diatribe against Hispanics fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, a leader of a tea party group in Texas said on Facebook: “You’re not going to demographically replace a once proud, strong people without getting blow-back.”

keith wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:14 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:39 pm

Cruz does realize his last name is.....Cruz, right? Pretty sure that's Hispanic.

Naw... its Cuban-Canadian.

jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 12:45 am and subsequently fought a war of independence against Mexico in the 1830s.

much ado wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:28 pm "secede" and "secession". Stepping in for Foggy.

much ado wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:28 pm "secede" and "secession". Stepping in for Foggy.

Gregg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:23 pm

Qruz's nose looks like someone wacked off the point

So you're saying he's circumcized?

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) threat to “woke” CEOs was slammed Sunday as likely the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate, declared Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics.

In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Cruz warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP.

For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” when corporate bigwigs dodge taxes, Cruz wrote in a stunningly honest admission of his party’s current modus operandi.

“This time,” he wrote, “we won’t look the other way on Coca-Cola’s $12 billion in back taxes owed. This time, when Major League Baseball lobbies to preserve its multibillion-dollar antitrust exception, we’ll say no thank you. This time, when Boeing asks for billions in corporate welfare, we’ll simply let the Export-Import Bank expire.”