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While Texans Froze, Ted Cruz Took Off to Cancun.
The Texas Senator deserves all the blowback he’s getting.
Whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, or the coverage on national television, it’s been difficult to miss what’s currently happening in the state of Texas. An unprecedented winter storm has left Texas’ private electrical infrastructure unable to keep up with the demand, resulting in rolling blackouts and tens of millions without power or heat in well below freezing weather. Sharing stories on twitter so that others would understand the severity of what was going on, writer Summer Anne Burton discussed how her neighbor was walking to the local 7–11 in an area that happens to have a high homeless population, and found a dead woman frozen to the sidewalk. In response to an article where Rick Perry had the audacity to say Texans were willing to suffer blackouts if it meant the federal government was out of their power grid, Kassandra Aleman describes waking up at 4 in the morning thinking she was going to die in her 20 degree room, unable to bring her body temperature up in spite of all the protective layers she was wearing.
So, in the midst of a storm that has resulted in his constituents freezing to death and millions without power in freezing weather, where was Texas Senator Ted Cruz?
