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Ted Cruz Proposes Legislation That Would Make It Harder to Photograph Lawmakers Jetting Off to Cancún While Their Constituents Freeze to Death​

Remember, back in 2021, when Ted Cruz’s response to a Texas state of emergency—wherein millions of people had no heat or power and hundreds died—was to hop a plane to Cancún? Obviously, Cruz hadn’t issued a press release about his trip, which he’d clearly hoped would fly under the radar, and the only reason it came out was thanks to the work of the citizen journalists who spotted him in the airport and on the Mexico-bound plane and thought to whip out their cameras. Anyway, the whole thing made the Texas senator look really, really bad—and in the future, he’d like Congress to help make sure it never happens again.

Ted Cruz Proposes Legislation That Would Make It Harder to Photograph Lawmakers Jetting Off to Cancún While Their Constituents Freeze to Death

Spring break is coming up.

www.vanityfair.com

Viral photos of politicians jetting off to a tropical hideaway during a deadly cold wave might become a lot rarer under legislation being pushed by Sen. Ted Cruz.
The Texas Republican — infamously photographed by a gawker while en route to Cancún in 2021 — is proposing a bill amendment that would offer lawmakers a dedicated security escort at airports, along with expedited screening outside of public view. That could make it much less likely that the politicians’ comings and goings would become fodder for embarrassing news reports and late-night comedy mockery.
The measure would also provide the same special treatment to federal judges and Cabinet members, as well as a limited number of their family and staff. Cruz is trying to attach the amendment to a major aviation policy bill, S. 1939, that is expected to be marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday.

Asked about the need for his amendment, Cruz told POLITICO that it’s about ensuring that political VIPs aren’t endangered as they pass through public spaces in airports. The draft says the extra security would be available to those who are currently or have previously “been the subject of a threat.”
There are “serious security threats facing public officials,” Cruz said Tuesday. “It’s important that we take reasonable measures to keep everyone safe.”
But the head of a nonprofit representing airport police said Cruz’s proposal would be “a burden to airport police agencies,” especially because federal budgets already do not adequately fund airport police units. It would also divert police from “crime suppression and security functions at airports, which is our fundamental duty,” said Kevin Murphy, executive director of the Airport Law Enforcement Agencies Network.
Instead, Murphy said, any escort duties for political VIPs should be the job of federal law enforcement.

Ted Cruz wants lawmakers to get security escorts through America’s airports

Cruz told POLITICO that his amendment is about ensuring that political VIPs aren’t endangered as they pass through public spaces in airports.

www.politico.com

Day late and a dollar short, Ted.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Ted Cruz is a first-class hypocrite. Back when Obamacare came out, he opposed it,
yet ended up on it after his wife left Goldman Sachs so he could run for president.

Of course, he also was behind shutting down government during the Obama years, which
anyone could see that this was a plot to make lots of money in the stock market, especially
for friends of his wife in Goldman Sachs. When the government shuts down, the stock market
falls, thereby opening the door for insider knowledgeable investors like members of congress,
to buy stocks. Then, just when they know that they will reopen the government, the stock market
sores and the same congress critters sell off the shares they bought when they shut down government.
FYI, both Republicans and Democrats play this game.

 

[The Barbarian]

FYI, both Republicans and Democrats play this game.

Someone said, "It's a big club, and you aren't in it."