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Post by the Scribe on Apr 16, 2020 11:54:11 GMT
Who is Ted Cruz? Conservative Republican Senator of Texas | NowThis
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2020 6:16:16 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 29, 2020 7:43:17 GMT
Ted Cruz Got $35 Million For Billionaire Fracking Donors In Last COVID-19 Aid: Reportwww.yahoo.com/huffpost/wilks-fracking-donors-ted-cruz-35-million-loan-coronavirus-relief-040634919.html
Mary Papenfuss·Trends Reporter, HuffPost
Mon, December 28, 2020, 9:06 PM MST
As President Donald Trump complains about “pork” in the current COVID-19 relief package, The Wall Street Journal reports that the last time around, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) helped manipulate the aid program to get $35 million for Texas billionaire fracking brothers who are major Cruz contributors.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump
www.wsj.com/articles/texas-fracking-billionaires-drew-covid-19-aid-while-investing-in-rivals-11609070400
Dan and Farris Wilks collected the windfall even though their businesses were busy buying stakes in six other fracking companies, according to corporate records, the Journal reported.
www.forbes.com/profile/dan-wilks/?sh=7a087e127fa3
www.forbes.com/profile/farris-wilks/?sh=60592f4e39b4
The Wilks brothers lobbied Cruz when it appeared that gas and oil operations would be cut out of the government-backed loans of the Mainstreet Lending Program in the last COVID-19 economic stimulus package last spring, according to the newspaper.
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/mainstreetlending.htm
Cruz in turn helped convince the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve to change the rules for pandemic loans to include the operations, the Journal reported. The government quickly changed the rules, and the Wilks brothers obtained the hefty $35 million loan for ProFac Holdings LLC, a supplier of pumping equipment and services, according to records.
The nonprofit BailoutWatch, which tracks coronavirus pandemic aid to businesses, blasted Cruz’s efforts as a massive payback to a major campaign contributor.
bailoutwatch.org/
“ProFrac’s loan is blatant misappropriation of taxpayer dollars,” Chris Kuveke, an analyst for the organization, told the Journal. The senator’s biggest contributors cashed in with one of the program’s largest loans to the fossil fuel industry, Kuveke noted. “It’s hard not to connect the dots,” he added.
The Wilks brothers donated $15 million to the super PAC Keeping the Promise, which backed Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign. That made them the biggest financial backers of his career in politics, according to the Journal.
The Wilks did not return requests from the Journal to comment. Cruz’s office claimed his work for the Wilks and other fossil fuel industries protected 300,000 jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic but apparently provided no documentation for the claim.
The president has complained about “pork” in the COVID-19 stimulus package he signed Sunday night, which is providing a modest one-time $600 relief payment to Americans who meet income requirements.
The entire Wall Street Journal article is available here.
www.wsj.com/articles/texas-fracking-billionaires-drew-covid-19-aid-while-investing-in-rivals-11609070400?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 16, 2021 19:31:29 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 18, 2021 16:06:18 GMT
Wow. What a stupid political move. Just one among many if true.Word of flight to Cancun from frozen Texas lands Senator Ted Cruz in hot waterwww.yahoo.com/news/word-flight-cancun-frozen-texas-144528052.html
Thu, February 18, 2021, 7:45 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz flew to the Mexican resort city of Cancun with his family, Fox News reported on Thursday, as millions of his fellow Texans struggled through a deadly deep freeze, sparking a slew of criticism.
The Republican lawmaker, 50, faced widespread criticism as photos circulated on social media showing him in an airport line, in a passenger lounge, aboard an airliner and departing an airport in Mexico. It was unclear when the photos were taken and Cruz's Senate office did not respond to multiple queries.
Fox News said Cruz flew to Cancun with his family, quoting an unidentified Republican source who said: "The photos speak for themselves."
Cruz's social media pages and official website made no mention of the photos. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2016.
Hours before the Fox News report, photos began circulating on social media that a journalist said had shown him flying to Mexico's Caribbean coast, where temperatures were to be above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 Celsius).
"Just confirmed @sentedcruz and his family flew to Cancun tonight for a few days at a resort they've visited before. Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing." former MSNBC anchor David Shuster tweeted shortly after midnight.
Millions of Texans remained paralyzed by power and water outages after a winter storm and freezing temperatures that hampered efforts to restore full power.
With 2.7 million Texas households still without heat, leaders warned of a domino effect on infrastructure as the lack of power cut off water supplies, strained the ability of hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients and isolated vulnerable communities with frozen roads still impassable.
(Reporting by David Morgan and Susan Heavey; Editing by Howard Goller)
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 26, 2021 18:41:25 GMT
Ok. I had to laugh out loud at this article.
John Boehner Tells Ted Cruz To 'Go F**k Yourself' In Rogue Audiobook Aside: Reportwww.yahoo.com/huffpost/john-boehner-ted-cruz-go-fuck-yourself-120914681.html
Ron Dicker·General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost
Fri, February 26, 2021, 5:09 AM
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) still seems to despise Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ― and he took an off-script detour from recording his new audiobook to declare it.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/john-boehner
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ted-cruz
In a rogue moment while recording the audio for his memoir, Boehner exclaimed: “Oh, and Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself,” Axios reported Thursday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the session.
www.axios.com/boehner-ted-cruz-new-memoir-df75a3a2-5f03-434c-8425-2f072eceec0e.html
“You can blame the wine for the expletives,” Boehner tweeted about his “On The House: A Washington Memoir” tapings, along with a photo of him behind a microphone holding a glass of red wine.
Axios didn’t provide the context for the insult, but it comes days after Cruz was caught taking a Cancun beach vacation in the midst of a deadly Texas cold siege that left many without heat or clean water.
Boehner’s off-the-cuff diss shouldn’t come as a surprise. He once called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh.”
www.politico.com/story/2016/04/john-beohner-ted-cruz-lucifer-222570
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life,” he said of the Texas lawmaker.
Ted Cruz and John Boehner: No love lost here. (Photo: AP/Getty)
Boehner also appears occasionally partial to the phrase “go fuck yourself.” He once issued the dismissive profanity to former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid outside the Oval Office.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/30/john-boehner-retired-and-a-little-bitter-f-bombs-some-old-gop-enemies/
Boehner resigned from Congress in 2015.
www.huffpost.com/entry/john-boehner-resignation_n_56057d31e4b0dd8503075044
“On The House” is due out April 13 on Amazon.
www.amazon.com/House-John-Boehner/dp/1250238447
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
www.huffpost.com/entry/john-boehner-ted-cruz-go-fuck-yourself_n_6038ccb5c5b610bcd98fac1bBoehner: Cruz is 'Lucifer in the flesh'www.politico.com/story/2016/04/john-beohner-ted-cruz-lucifer-222570
The former House speaker also says that he would vote for Trump, and called the two of them 'texting buddies.'
By NICK GASS 04/28/2016 08:49 AM EDT Updated 04/28/2016 02:56 PM EDT
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When it comes to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, even a few months’ time out of Congress has done little to lessen former House Speaker John Boehner’s contempt for his former Capitol Hill colleague.
“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner told an audience at Stanford University on Wednesday night, according to the Stanford Daily. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
In fact, Wednesday night was not the first occasion that Boehner has compared Cruz to “Lucifer.” He used the epithet last month during a question-and-answer session with reporters at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
As far as Donald Trump goes, Boehner remarked that he had golfed with Trump for years and that the two are “texting buddies” — a comment Cruz seized on in his requital Thursday.
“If you want someone that’s a texting and golfing buddy, if you’re happy with John Boehner as speaker of the House and you want a president like John Boehner, Donald Trump’s your man,” Cruz told reporters during a stop in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cruz insisted he never “worked with” Boehner and, in response to being called Lucifer, Cruz added that Boehner “allowed his inner Trump to come out.”
Cruz is notorious for his toxic relationship with his congressional colleagues. It turned radioactive in 2013 when the Texas senator played a pivotal role in shutting down the federal government with his high-stakes attempt to defund Obamacare.
Republicans were widely blamed for the historic disruption, and Cruz’s colleagues heaped scorn on him as a result.
The vitriol has waned some, but Trump has gleefully exploited it, maintaining that as the standard-bearer, he can unite the party — unlike Cruz, who has little support among the people who work with him in Congress.
On Thursday, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) seized on Boehner’s comments and again showed he’s not letting bygones be bygones over the shutdown.
“Maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz,” King said on CNN. “Listen, what John Boehner was most concerned about was Ted Cruz perpetrated a fraud and a hoax when he brought about the shutdown of the government on some kind of a vague promise that he was gonna be able to take Obamacare out of the budget or to end Obamacare.”
Boehner’s successor Paul Ryan, who has been neutral throughout the primary and will chair the Republican National Convention this summer, said he has a better relationship with Cruz than Boehner did but didn’t necessarily come to the senator’s defense.
“I have a very good relationship with both of these men,” he said, referring to Boehner and Cruz. “I’m going to keep it that way.”
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Senate Foreign Relations chair gushes over Trump speech
By HANNA TRUDO
White House press secretary Josh Earnest expressed confidence that Boehner was simply being candid when he offered his take on Cruz.
“Obviously, Speaker Boehner was speaking based on his own experience,” Earnest told reporters. “I don’t know that he was looking to be helpful for harmful. I think he was just looking to be honest about his own view.”
In the sit-down on Wednesday night, Boehner was more magnanimous when talking about fellow Ohioan John Kasich.
The governor “requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends … but he’s still my friend, and I love him,” Boehner said, according to the report.
On the Democratic side of the race, Boehner said that while Hillary Clinton would win the party’s nomination, Bernie Sanders is a likable guy and the most honest politician in the race. He also apparently impersonated the former secretary of state, saying, “Oh, I’m a woman, vote for me,” while reportedly later noting her accomplishments.
Boehner’s comments also included a reference to the ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was at the State Department, speculating on what might happen if the scandal widens.
“Don’t be shocked … if two weeks before the convention, here comes Joe Biden parachuting in and Barack Obama fanning the flames to make it all happen,” the former speaker said.
Boehner also had some fun with how people botch his name, telling the crowd, “You can call me boner, beaner, jackass, happy to answer to almost anything.”
Nolan D. McCaskill and Rachael Bade contributed to this report.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 1, 2021 18:49:52 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on May 13, 2022 17:54:24 GMT
Ted Cruz compares abortion-rights protesters outside Supreme Court Justice Alito's home to rioters at Capitol insurrection
www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-claims-protest-outside-142846286.html
Katie Balevic
Wed, May 11, 2022, 6:56 PM
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Sen. Ted Cruz said the Capitol riot was merely "tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting."
He compared protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices to the storming of the Capitol.
Protests started after a leak indicated the Supreme Court was prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Monday compared abortion-rights protesters demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices to rioters at the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
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