Houston Chronicle By Benjamin First 9/13/2018
My senator, Ted Cruz, faces an enormous amount of unwarranted hate. He gets trashed for a Trump tweet by people who hate Donald Trump. He gets trashed for reading “Green Eggs and Ham†by people who love Dr. Seuss. People often say he’s unlikeable, but they never back it up with a reason why. Cruz was not elected to the U.S. Senate to go on daytime talk shows and parrot trendy liberal talking points. He was not elected because he played in a rock band, skateboards at Whataburger or crashed his car while driving drunk and attempted to flee from the scene. He was elected to go to Washington, D.C., and fight for our constitutional rights, lower taxes and a smaller, less intrusive federal government. Cruz was elected to fight for the people of Texas. Since elected, he has done exactly that.
If his opponent, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, is good at one thing, it’s appealing to liberal celebrities.
O’Rourke has received praise from celebrities like Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr for his controversial stance on the national anthem protests. He believes there is “nothing more American†than kneeling for the anthem. While I strongly believe in this country’s uniquely American right to peaceful protest, I also watched the people of this great city band together during one of the country’s most historic natural disasters — Hurricane Harvey. I saw America personified when I watched this city come together and help out anyone and everyone who needed it, regardless of their status in the identity politics hierarchy. To me, that is far more American than the divisive actions of one entitled millionaire. We saw real American heroes in the streets. We witnessed J.J. Watt fund-raise and get donations from more than 200,000 people, ultimately collecting and distributing roughly $40 million in relief. We saw the city rally around the Astros, and then we saw the Astros honor first responders on the field. To me, that is as American as it gets. However, while Cruz was traveling the state with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Gov. Greg Abbott fighting for our recovery, O’Rourke was in Congress playing politics and voting against tax relief for his fellow Texans.
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