Celebrities are firing Senator Ted Cruz for traveling with his family to Cancun, Mexico, while Texas is still facing a major snow crisis that has left more than 500,000 without power.
Cruz, R-Texas, told Sean Hannity that he lost power in his home for two days before choosing to travel and admitted that he ‘almost immediately’ started getting second thoughts after boarding his flight. has.
Photos of the senator began circulating on social media late Wednesday, showing him at an airport while millions of Texans were left without power, heat or clean water. His travels have caused not only Texans, but also citizens across the country, an intense setback, including numerous Hollywood stars who snubbed him for rejecting his constituents.
“I think @SenTedCruz desperately trying to transform from the ‘inspired’ deadly uprising ” mother to the ‘who left my constituents to freeze to death so I could go to Cancun’s mother, but luckily he can be both. He’s just that big mother – ‘actor Seth Rogen tweeted.
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Celebrities pulled up in Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, this week when photos surfaced showing the politician traveling to Cancun, Mexico, while millions of voters in Texas were without power amid a catastrophic snowstorm.
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“The fact that @tedcruz flies to Cancun for a vacation while its voters in #Texas literally freezing to death is essentially frightening and furious. But not surprisingly. TX, you deserve better. Vote this f-ker. You deserve a senator who cares about your lives, ‘writes Sophia Bush Twitter.
Bush continued to hit back at others and hit Cruz, calling his actions “outrageous” in one case.
“Totally Dual Tweet: F – K Ted Cruz,” “Mom” Star Kristen Johnston added.
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“How ugly must a mother be before the good people in Texas stop sending him to do their business? @SenTedCruz, ” Ron Perlman wrote.
‘Charmed’ alum Alyssa Milano praised Beto O’Rourke for ‘virtually’ in Texas amid the winter storm ‘to make wellness check phone calls.’ She said on Twitter that she knew of O’Rourke’s efforts because she had the same Zoom call with him and “watched him do his a-off work for his fellow Texans.”
Milano also said she asked “#cancunCruz” to follow me on Twitter yesterday so I can DM him. She then shared a screenshot of a tweet asking him to try to sponsor a bill that would “lift the arbitrary timeline for amending equal rights,” she explained.
“He did not answer,” Milano added.
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Comedian Chelsea Handler reacted with a joke on Twitter to Cruz’s travels. “If you’re wondering how far Ted Cruz will go to prove he’s a hole, it’s 1,800 miles,” she said. tweeted on Thursday.
‘Millions of its voters are without power and water at freezing rates and @tedcruz jumps on a plane literally * after the spring break in Cancun. You can not format it, ” Padma Lakshmi said.
Patton Oswalt also joked with Cruz by repeating several tweets consisting of photos of Cruz in an airplane and at the airport. “This absolute worm,” Oswalt wrote a tweet.
“So in TITANTIC, when Rose did not share that piece of wood she was floating on, and took an afternoon nap while Jack froze to death … Is that a Cruz? #ditssocruz, “Wrote Wanda Sykes.
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Star Trek actor George Takei said Cruz has proven he can do something no compassionate or effective leader will ever do, and the GOP base in Texas will still vote for him because you have to own the library. ‘
Mia Farrow said Texas deserves better.
“Dear #Texas If you come from this awful time – and you want to because you’re the great people in a great state – remember this coward. You deserve better. # TexasVries #CancunCruz, ‘Farrow wrote.
In another statement on the social media platform, Farrow shared this’ rule ‘with her followers:’ If you are a politician whose state is enduring a terrible disaster, do not fly away to a sublime vacation spot. If you care about your constituents, you STAY AND HELP. ‘
Rosanna Arquette said Cruz “is not fit to serve the American people in any form or form” and also referred to him as a ‘disgrace’.
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“Heidi and I, we lost power for two days,” Cruz told Hannity. “Our house was dark. We had no heat. We were all gathered around the fireplace because it was the only heat in the house, and after a few days [of] the girls are very cold and [temperatures] because we were outside in our teens or twenties, our girls said, ‘Look, school has been canceled for the week. Can we take a turn and go hot somewhere? “And Heidi and I, as parents, said, ‘OK, sure.’
“And so I flew down to the beach with them last night and flew back this afternoon,” Cruz continues.
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The senator was planning to stay with his family through the weekend, “but while I was on my way there, you know, I started thinking almost immediately because the crisis here in Texas, you have to be on the ground here,” he said. he said. said Hannity.
“As much as you can do telephonically and Zoom, it’s not the same as being here. And so, I’m back this afternoon and I’m working here to make sure we do everything in our power to turn on the power. . “
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The Republican legislature acknowledged that a beach vacation with his family while Texans were suffering from freezing cold temperatures at home was “obviously a mistake.”