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- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers
The Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz, who achieved viral infamy in 2021 when he was seen at Houston airport for a flight to Cancún even as his state faced a historic and deadly spell of cold weather, this week moved a step closer to securing police escorts for lawmakers at airports.
Under an amendment to the Federal Aviation Authority Reauthorization bill introduced by Cruz, members of Congress and other prominent officials, and some family and staff members, will be offered security escorts if they are deemed “currently … or previously … the subject of a threat, as determined by such applicable federal protective agency”.
If passed by the House and Senate, the bill will fund the FAA for four years.
But given Cruz’s scrape with viral fame over his flight to Mexico in February 2021 – a trip to join a family vacation he abandoned after one day, admitting his “obvious mistake” as tweets and memes proliferated – the senator faces criticism and mockery over his attempt to secure security guards for future airport trips.
If you weren’t implying some sort of similarity, why bother making the comparison?
If a senator or representative feels threatened, they can call the police or find security, just like the rest of us. Especially in an airport, they are everywhere.
I do imply they are similar, I didn’t say they were the same.
Do you think that an elected official might have a higher risk of being threatened than a private citizen?
He chose to be a senator, if he feels it’s unsafe he can find a “safer” profession.
No I don’t. There are a TON of elected officials that would not benefit from this change, so this isn’t so much protecting elected officials as it’s Cruz being too much a a fucking man child to handle criticism from the people he’s supposed to serve.