This is more of a recyled rather than a new stupid republican idea:
Ted Cruz Uses Photo of Wrong Black Man in Fundraising Text About His Challenger
“This is Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator (read: his campaign) wrote in a message to supporters on Saturday. “I have breaking news: Far-left Democrat Colin Allred just announced he’s running against me in 2024. Allred doesn’t represent Texas values - not even close.”
The text included a photo of a Black man who is clearly not Congressman Allred (D-Texas); it’s Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s pursuing criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
More at the link.
To be fair, though, it’s probably not like a largish percentage of Cruz’s supporters could tell the difference between Congressman Allred and District Attorney Bragg, or between any two Blac men for that matter.
I wonder how long it will be before the pubbies drop all pretense and just start using old minstrel pictures in any public media referencing Blacks. (Please tell me this hasn’t happened in recent memory.)
Well, well, well. A committee of the Texas House of Representatives has recommended expelling the hypocrite who led the campaign against grooming (read: false accusations against LGBTQ+ people).
For weeks this has been all the talk of those of us following the rumor mill of the Texas Legislature (we’re a small but friendly lot). Rep. Bryan Staton took a 19-year-old intern back to his apartment, got her drunk and had unprotected sex with her (apparently the first time she had sex). He then tried to intimidate her and her friends who knew about the encounter into silence. Slaton is maybe the most conservative member of the Texas House, which is saying a lot.
No, no, “keep quiet about it” obviously means hiding any evidence that she was ever pregnant. Ergo, he was trying to get her to have an abortion, and ergo, she has standing to sue him.
Wow, a Republican actually held accountable by other Republicans! All it took was raping an intern, and the fact that he will undoubtedly be replaced by someone equally vile so there is no loss of power to them.
Specifically, according to Wiki, he served for 13 years as a youth and family minister and his undergrad clerical degree was in youth ministry and communications.
Why won’t I be surprised to hear now of things going on long before election…
Hey, hey, hey! Be nice. So what if he wants to start an extraillegitimate family with a young’un youth? Remember he’s a republican. That means he wants the government to stay out of his personal life.