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Stuart Suplick

Texans Stick With Cruz Despite Defeat in Washington - 1 views

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Cruz Republicans Republican divide Government shutdown federal-state relations ACA

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  • Stuart Suplick on 19 Oct 13
     
    Although the Texan Senator Ted Cruz has been the focus of much blame for the government shutdown, many Texans appreciate his strong conservative effort in Washington, much less to defund the ACA. Still, moderate and establishment Republicans in Texas disapprove of Cruz, and question his real purpose for stalling the government. While quieted, there a divide within the red state among Republicans. But is this political divide a bigger issue than the divide between Texas and other liberal states?
  • Kay Bradley on 19 Oct 13
     
    "But the continued support for Mr. Cruz among Texas Republicans illustrates something larger: the cultural and political divide that continues to widen between a red state that President Obama lost by nearly 16 points in the 2012 election and the blue or even purple parts of the country where Mr. Cruz's tone and tactics have caused outrage and consternation"
lauran5556555

Gunman Pleads Guilty in Parkland School Shooting - The New York Times - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...oting-guilty-nikolas-cruz.html

shared by lauran5556555 on 20 Oct 21 - No Cached
  • “Counts 1 through 17 of the indictment charged you with murder in the first degree. These are life felonies. They are punishable — they’re capital felonies
  • He responded with “guilty” 34 times as Judge Elizabeth Scherer read each charge — including each victim’s name — and asked how he wanted to plea.
  • Armed with a legally purchased semiautomatic rifle,
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  • The Parkland case will be the rare instance of a mass shooter who lives to see any sort of trial, since many of them end up dying in their attacks.
  • the top prosecutor in Broward County at the time of the attack, Michael J. Satz, said he would pursue the death penalty
  • fight a battle that you might win — and that’s the sentencing battl
  • In Florida, judges can only sentence a defendant to death if a jury unanimously recommends the death penalty, and even then, judges can override the jury and sentence a defendant to life in prison, though they rarely do so.
  • Mr. Cruz had a history of mental health and behavior problems, many of them documented by the public school district
  • Victims’ families recently reached a $25 million settlement with Broward County Public Schools over the shooting.
  • lauran5556555 on 20 Oct 21
     
    This is good that the families will get a closure, but I wonder how it will influence the gun control laws and mental health awareness in the US.
Nora Sheeder

Listen to the people on Obamacare - 0 views

america.aljazeera.com/...-to-the-peopleonobamacare.html

Obamacare Ted Cruz

shared by Nora Sheeder on 08 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Nora Sheeder on 08 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about Sen. Cruz and his questionable remark that the government should be: "Listening to the American people." It seems that he believes the American people don't want Obamacare. What is confusing about this whole idea, is that it seems he only has 1/3 of Americans on his side.
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