This week, unprecedented winter storms have left millions of people in Texas without electricity, heat, and water as parts of the state saw record low temperatures.

As reported yesterday by Forbes, the state’s entire electrical grid came within minutes of total catastrophic failure that would have left nearly all of Texas without power for possibly a month. (Rather than being part of one of the two electrical grids for the eastern and western halves of the country, Texas has its own grid. Because freedom.)

Senator Ted Cruz sprang to action — coordinating relief efforts with FEMA and other federal agencies, securing supplies from his extensive network of billionaire and Big Business campaign funders, and even personally calling worried constituents to offer words of encouragement through the cold dark nights.

Just kidding!

What Ted Cruz actually did was flee to a luxury resort in the tropical paradise of Cancún, Mexico. (Cruz’s staff even asked Houston police — who had their hands full with the devastating effects of the sub-freezing weather — to escort Cruz through the airport before his departure and upon his return.)

• Never mind that Cruz has snarkily faulted politicians in other states for electricity outages caused by weather-related emergencies.

• Never mind that Cruz has taunted other politicians for going to the beach during a crisis.

• Never mind that we’re all supposed to be avoiding non-essential travel — especially on airplanes — as our nation continues to battle the coronavirus.

• Never mind that Cruz has castigated other politicians for taking trips abroad during the pandemic.

• Never mind that Cruz told radio listeners in Texas earlier this week to “just stay home and hug your kids.”

Ted Cruz is widely disliked even by other Republicans.

John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House — who, along with Mitch McConnell in the Senate, is as guilty as anyone of stonewalling progress during the Obama presidency — called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” and said “I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina — who knows a thing or twenty about being a sniveling weasel of a politician — once “joked” that “if you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

Even Fox News lambasted Cruz for abandoning Texans in the middle of the disaster.

Until now, Ted Cruz has exhibited absolutely no capacity for shame. Let’s make this the thing that changes that.

Join Public Citizen in demanding that Ted Cruz resign from the Senate immediately.

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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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