I personally avoided being in Texas during that event, but I’ve certainly spent my share of shitty winter days in ill-prepared Dallas & other Texas places. And had many many coworkers caught in that disaster.
Yeah, Ted utterly and deliberately fled that one after it was well under way. Zero debate there. I’d simply forgotten the details.
Yeah, he left during the freeze, and was caught in the airport.
It’s one thing if you’re caught elsewhere when the disaster occurs, but it’s something else entirely if you actually bail during the disaster.
I doubt anything is really going to sway opinions at this point, but from my perspective, it’s part of his job.
If he were some random member of the public, no, I wouldn’t have expected him to do much differently or make any public displays. Especially on a family vacation, which he probably could only afford to take once, if that, a year.
As a sitting Senator who takes not just one but several holidays a year and makes a show of his ‘accomplishments’? Yes, I expect him to at least put on an act. That’s part of his job. To at least pretend to possess empathy, especially for his own constituents, not least because he clearly has no empathy for natural disaster victims in other states when urging no aid be given to them.
I don’t expect everybody to agree with that, but clearly enough people do agree with that to the extent it is considered an actual issue, minor though it is.
“I was trying to be a dad, and all of us have made decisions — when you’ve got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven’t had heater power, and they’re saying ‘Hey, look we don’t have school why don’t we go, let’s get out of here.’ I think there are a lot of parents that would be like, ‘Look, if I can do this great.’ That’s what I wanted to do,” he told the TV station.
I thought Cruz spent the vast majority of his time on his podcast and was hardly ever in DC either. Missed tons of votes?
Long article on some of the fallout from Camp Mystic.
I expect it will be a lot easier to get in next year [I believe they usually had .big waiting lists].