Posted on 04/11/2016 4:41:42 AM PDT by raptor22
You made a mistake pinging me to your thread. Remove my name from your ping list.
Get real. Out here in the hinterlands, where we have fewer people in our biggest towns than you have in some blocks of NYC, we didn't think it was disparaging the folks in the western part of the state watching their PA brethren in relative prosperity, knowing full well the influence of NYC in Albany just might have had something to do with the Marcellus gas wells NOT drilled in NY (state), or the jobs NOT had in rural NY, or the money NOT made in rural NY, or the food that didn't get on the table because a bunch of big city liberals are running the joint couldn't extract payola from that.
We knew who he was talking about: the corrupt urban liberals who pushed crap through like the "SAFE Act".
Why, to blame the rural folks would be like blaming rural California for the behaviour of that bunch in San Francisco.
We don't, but that doesn't stop California from being described as 'a bowl of granola'. Any SANE person knows that such places are not ideologically homogeneous.
So we didn't see it that way.
We know that isn't apple butter on the country folks' bread, and we all know where it came from.
But we also well understood the very urban liberal values Cruz was talking about, the ones piped into your home from studios and programming offices in NYC and splattered across the living rooms of all of America from New York (city),New York (state), and we knew those were the ones Cruz referred to. If you live there, if you aren't one of the urban liberals, you should understand that, too.
Despite your use of the Royal We, you don't speak for the state. Watch and learn.
Cruz meant the liberals in NY, not firefighters, and anyone who says otherwise is disingenuous.
I have a nephew fire fighter, and another nephew police officer, and BOTH of them were working and endangering their lives because of 9/11. Only a dishonest politician would say Cruz meant them.
PLEASE add me to your ping list. SOME of us are not afraid of TRUTH!
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