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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:08 PM Aug 2017

Christie calls Cruz 'disgusting' over hurricane relief

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed Sen. Ted Cruz Wednesday morning over what he said was the Texas Republican's double standard in opposing Superstorm Sandy relief but requesting federal aid for Texas after Hurricane Harvey.

"I have no sympathy for this -- and I see Sen. Cruz and it's disgusting to me that he stands in a recovery center with victims standing behind him as a backdrop," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "He's still repeating the same reprehensible lies about what happened in Sandy (and) called on Congress Wednesday morning to work fast on a bill to aid Texas after Hurricane Harvey."


Cruz said Monday he voted against a 2013 Sandy relief bill because it was "a $50 billion bill filled with pork and unrelated spending that wasn't hurricane relief."

"It was simply local members of Congress spending on their pet projects and two-thirds of what was spent in that bill had little or nothing to do with Hurricane Sandy," Cruz said to CNN's Jim Acosta during "Wolf" on Monday.


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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/30/politics/chris-christie-ted-cruz-hurricane-aid-harvey-new-jersey-sandy-cnntv/index.html

Time for a cage match!

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Christie calls Cruz 'disgusting' over hurricane relief (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2017 OP
Christie is a contemptible person, but I'm glad he's speaking out about Ted Cruz. blue neen Aug 2017 #1
. tanyev Aug 2017 #2

blue neen

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1. Christie is a contemptible person, but I'm glad he's speaking out about Ted Cruz.
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:22 PM
Aug 2017

Cruz is lower than a snake's belly.

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