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“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”-George Orwell
There are more than 1.4 million people in the Bronx - but Ted Cruz couldn't even muster 100 at a campaign event in Parkchester with state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Christian minister.
Cruz visited the Sabrosura Chinese-Dominican restaurant, where Diaz said the presidential candidate could "listen to the social, economic and spiritual needs of our community" while dining with other clergymen on the eatery's famed fried rice and plantains.
Aside from about 70 ministers affiliated with Diaz, only a dozen voters turned up - and two of them were tossed out after screaming protests about the Texas senator's hardline stance on immigration.
Before the event with the conservative state senator, his son, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., slammed Cruz as a hypocrite at a press conference arranged by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"Ted Cruz is a hypocrite. He not only offended New Yorkers, he offended Bronxites, and now he's here today in New York and in the Bronx looking for moneyand votes," Diaz said.
Sen. Ted Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, came to a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in the Bronx and was asked - in Spanish - how he could come to such a community, where so many were born abroad, while supporting hard-line immigration proposals.
Cruz, who has said his Spanish is "lousy," nodded and answered the question - in English.
"Our community, the Hispanic community is -" Cruz began, but the Univision reporter who asked him the question interrupted him and requested that he answer in Spanish.
Then Teddy mumbled something about Spanglish. Brilliant!
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 55% of the Bronx population is Hispanic/Latino (compared to 17% nationally). One protester, Rodrigo Venegas, interrupted Teddy's event to call him a right-wing bigot."You're running on an anti-immigrant platform, and you're speaking in the Bronx," Venegas told Teddy. "You should not be here." Bronx resident Edna Ferrer, a 57-year-old hairstylist, stood outside the event with other New Yorkers to challenge Cruz supporters."Just because he has a Hispanic last name does not mean he's Hispanic," Ferrer told the New York Daily News. "His mind is white."
Why would there be such hostility in the Bronx for a guy like Teddy Cruz, who fits the technical definition of "Hispanic" American? Could it bethe latest version of his immigrationpolicy? The one where he sends law enforcement agents to knock down doors and round up immigrants for deportation, even if that means arresting them in front of their children?
Appearing on Fox News in February, Teddy told Bill O'Reilly that's exactly what Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is intended to do. "We have law enforcement that looks for people who are violating the laws that apprehends and deports them," Teddy said. To his credit, O'Reilly did press Teddy on the issue, detailing a specific situation that often engenders sympathy for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States: A parent who has overstayed his visa and now lives in the country with his American-born children. O'Reilly asked Teddy whether he would "send the feds to his house, take him out and put him back on a plane." "You better believe it," Teddy replied. Tough guy. This, of course, is a departure from the way that Teddy had previously talked about immigration enforcement - back when he was identifying asless Trumpian andmore libertarian. Just a month earlier, in January, Teddy suggested that ICE agents shouldn't be going door to door to track down immigrants, arguing that it would transform the U.S. into apolice state. "No, I don't intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door in America. That's not how we enforce the law for any crime,"Teddy told CNN at the time. Good ol' Teddy Flip-Flop. Later in the day Teddy was scheduled to appear at a Bronx charter school. Apparently he was under the impression that his support for charter schools would somehow help him withthe black and Hispanic students there. Wrong, again:
Ted Cruz came to New York Wednesday talking about education, but he's the one who got schooled.
The lesson came from a group of Bronx high school students who told the Republican presidential candidate to stay away.
Cruz was scheduled to speak at Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy until students wrote a letter to the principal asking her not to let Cruz come, prompting staffers to cancel the appearance.
"We told her if he came here, we would schedule a walkout," said Destiny Domeneck, 16. "Most of us are immigrants or come from immigrant backgrounds. Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for."
Destiny and her classmates communicated that sentiment to Lighthouse Principal Alix Duggins.
"A group of students will be leaving during 4th period, as (an) act of civil disobedience in regards to the arrival of Ted Cruz to BLCPA," the letter said. "We have all considered the consequences of our actions and are willing to accept them."
"The presence of Ted Cruz and the ideas he stands for are offensive," the letter said. "His views are against ours and are actively working to harm us, our community, and the people we love."
In this segment of EWTNThe World Over, Rachel Campos-Duffy, national spokesperson for the LIBRE Initiative, talks to Raymond about comments made by the Pope concerning the global economy during his recent South American tour. She also talks about the impact of the Hispanic vote on the 2016 presidential race.
When Scott Walker was sworn into office in 2011, Wisconsin faced a staggering deficit and high unemployment numbers. Governor Walker took big, bold action to reform a collective bargaining system that was a bad deal for the taxpayers.
The Left erupted and threw everything they had at him, sending thousands of protestors to the state capital and attempting to recall him. But Scott Walker stood firm and won in a major victory for taxpayers against the big government special interests.
On this episode of the Rundown, John Phillips, Scott Ott, and Stephen Kruiser discuss whether the Koch Brothers are supporting the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the Republican primary.
Byron York shares some insight on the value of early polling in a presidential election cycle:
It's a commonplace to say the 2016 Republican presidential race is at such an early stage that polls are of no value. But they reflect the state of the race today - not on election day, but today - and that alone has some value. And they might at least suggest where things will be 10 months from now.
Look at the last election cycle. The top three GOP candidates in the RealClearPolitics average of polls in late March 2011 - Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul - were the top three men in the poll average at the beginning of 2012, when caucus and primary voting got under way. And they were the last three men standing, sort of, in the same order, in the last RCP average in April 2012.
Of course there were a huge number of twists and turns along the way. But in retrospect, the polls in 2011 told us something.The winner came from the top three a year earlier.
Today, the RCP average shows an exact tie at the top of the GOP race: Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, both with 16.6 percent, with Ben Carson following at 10.6 percent. Of course Carson is widely viewed in the Republican establishment as having no chance, and there are others outside the top three, like Marco Rubio, who are seen as real contenders.
But with Bush and Walker the other two of the top three, would anyone bet a lot of money that the ultimate winner won't come from the top group once again? Sometimes it makes sense to look at early polls.
