Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks to members of the media within the Senate Subway at U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Not content material with amplifying rhetoric that resulted in an rebel on the Capitol final month, it seems like Sen. Ted Cruz determined to bail on Texas by flying together with his household to a Mexican vacation resort throughout one of many largest crises in his state’s historical past.
The senator’s journey has been confirmed by a number of information retailers.
Cruz’s departure was first famous on Wednesday, when he was pictured with this spouse and daughter in Houston Bush Airport boarding a 4:44 p.m. United Airways flight to Cancún.
Cruz was carrying the the identical masks that he wore to President Joe Biden’s inauguration with the phrase “Come and Take” written on the facet.
Cruz’s workers contacted Houston Police Division personnel and requested help when he arrived on the airport on Wednesday.
“A member of his workers reached out to our police personnel on the airport and mentioned he was going to be arriving [at the airport] yesterday afternoon,” Jodi Silva, a Public Data Officer for the Houston Police Division, advised VICE Information on Thursday.
“I do know nothing a few return or help on a return. I simply know we monitored his actions and he requested help when there was a departure yesterday,” she added.
The timing of Cruz’s departure from his dwelling state for a non-emergency trip is thoughts boggling.
Thousands and thousands of his constituents are with out energy and water throughout the Lone Star State following an unprecedented winter storm that hit in latest days. Now people are running out of food, too.
And as Cruz suns himself in Cancún, the place the temperature is at the moment round a balmy 84 levels, Texans are getting ready for extra snow and plummeting temperatures.
Unsurprisingly, Cruz’s flight to Cancún led to some robust reactions on social media:
Many others identified that whereas Cruz was flying to Cancún, Beto O’Rourke, who misplaced out to Cruz in 2018’s Senate election, was organizing volunteers who spoke to over 150,000 folks throughout Texas, giving them recommendation and getting them assist.
Ted Cruz’s workplace didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark.
On Thursday morning, it appeared that relatively than stay in Mexico, the senator had determined to return dwelling. CNN reported that Cruz was booked on a flight again to Houston within the afternoon.
Information crews had been already at the airport, ready to welcome him dwelling.
