TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ FLED STATE DURING WINTER CRISIS
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz showed his commitment to his state faced a winter crisis that involved power outages, flooding, home damage, and more by taking a to Cancun, Mexico during the winter crisis. He then said it was all” a mistake” following the public backlash.
“I was trying to be a dad, and all of us have made decisions — when you’ve got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven’t had heater power, and they’re saying ‘Hey, look we don’t have school why don’t we go, let’s get out of here.’ I think there are a lot of parents that would be like, ‘Look if I can do this great.’ That’s what I wanted to do,” he told a TV station.
The backlash on Twitter began Wednesday night, and by Thursday, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa issued a statement requesting Senator Cruz to step down.
To top it all off, without quarantining, Cruz headed back to the states to pose in photos wearing a face mask with the Texas flag on it and distributing water bottles to people, shaking a maskless woman’s hand.
After temperatures hit single digits last week, more than 3 million people in Texas lost power, kicking a large portion of the state’s power plants off its grid. Austin received up to about 6.4 inches of snow, the most the city has seen in over 70 years.
A significant downfall the state had last week is that it operates its own electric grid, making it challenging to send excess power in times of crisis. The organization that manages Texas’ grid, known as ERCOT, or the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, regulated the crisis by cutting power to millions of homes in chunks to limit the time anyone’s household was powerless. State executives need to have a serious examination of why and how the ERCOT came up short and failed millions of Texans.
