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Cruz Spokesman: Protesters Outside My Office Could Just Ask for a Meeting
National Review Online ^ | August 12, 2014 4:01 PM | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 08/14/2014 6:05:50 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Illegal immigration activists who plan to protest outside of the office of Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) could get inside the office if they would only ask, a Cruz aide says.

“Of course, it’s this group’s First Amendment right to say what they want to say and we are happy to talk, if they are willing, but we have not received such a request,” Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told National Review Online when asked about United We Dream’s plan to protest at the senator’s Houston office on Thursday.

Maria Fernanda Cabello, an organizer at youth-immigrant advocacy group United We Dream, said that they plan “to remind the senator of his immigrant roots, [because] it’s shameful that he continues bullying families like his” — a reference to his proposal to halt President Obama’s deferred-action program for certain immigrants who arrived in the U.S. early at a young age.

“If they ask for a meeting, we will talk to them; they have not requested a meeting,” Frazier reiterated. 


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; cruz; tedcruz

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1 posted on 08/14/2014 6:05:50 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
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2 posted on 08/14/2014 6:06:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

They get more “Press Coverage” if they protest, actually sitting down to resolve a problem won’t cut it in their little minds.


3 posted on 08/14/2014 6:08:33 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: SoConPubbie

“United we Dream”. Sigh. There are too many people who like all this crap.


4 posted on 08/14/2014 6:11:07 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: DaveA37
They get more “Press Coverage” if they protest...

True, but also, it's highly unusual for a governing official to offer to listen. If I protested in front of Hillary's office, or Harry Reid's, for example, would they let me in for a reasoned discussion?

5 posted on 08/14/2014 6:11:15 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SoConPubbie

Bravo!

Only a few of our representatives are not afraid to face them directly.

Most others chose to hide and cower behind some barriers.


6 posted on 08/14/2014 6:21:10 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

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7 posted on 08/14/2014 6:24:24 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: SoConPubbie
it’s shameful that he continues bullying families like his

Clearly Maria Fernanda Cabello does not understand the meaning of the word "bullying".

Perhaps she should take a remedial English language course or two before making any more embarrassing public statements like that one.

8 posted on 08/14/2014 6:28:31 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: magna carta

What would be good; if 300 protestors show up, 3000 supporters show up, I hope we get a follow up report on this.


9 posted on 08/14/2014 6:37:35 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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10 posted on 08/14/2014 7:01:23 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: PoloSec

Absolutely. Cruz deserves some on-site support, from those in the neighborhood, of his Houston office.

If conservatives have a fraction of the hutzpa to walk their talk, they will be there.


11 posted on 08/14/2014 7:30:38 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team fmore Marxists coming.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You wouldn’t be there long enough to ask..

They’d have you hauled off.

They are the tolerant after all.


12 posted on 08/14/2014 8:56:35 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: DaveA37

Because the only “problem” they want to solve is how many more ways they can steal from the long-suffering legal productive American taxpayer. That wouldn’t go over very well if they were forced to admit it. So they have to stick to yelling slogans about how they’re entitled to the “American Dream” while hiding that they expect real Americans to pay for it.


13 posted on 08/14/2014 12:40:09 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Zeppo

We could say that they “bullied” Americans by forcing their presence upon us in our own country.


14 posted on 08/14/2014 12:41:04 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: PoloSec

I can get you a report. Will need to get a full blogpost up so I can share photos. THE PATRIOTS WON!!! we took their spot...got there first...LOL!!!


15 posted on 08/14/2014 4:02:40 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: PoloSec

http://www.stopthemagnet.com/blog/daca-dreamers-get-lassoed-ted-cruz-patriot-defenders


16 posted on 08/14/2014 7:02:32 PM PDT by magna carta
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