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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz college classmates ‘horrified’ he might become president: ‘He called my mother a wh*re!’
Ted Cruz college classmates horrified he might become president: He called my mother a wh*re!by Tom Boggioni at the Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/ted-cruz-college-classmates-horrified-he-might-become-president-he-called-my-mother-a-whre/
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Armed with a tip about a Cruz sexual encounter at the Ivy League university during his freshman year, Ellie Shechet of Jezebel reached out to close to 75 former contemporaries of Cruz for corroboration. While no one could verify the rumor, many had a few other things to say about the Republican senator from Texas who seems to have a knack for rubbing people the wrong way.
An earlier investigation by the Daily Beast uncovered classmates who referred to the younger Cruz as abrasive, intense, strident, a crank and arrogant, with four separate respondents calling hum creepy.
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Speaking with Sarah Hougen Poggi 92 who commented on a New York Times op-ed detailing how she stopped attending outside meetings attended by Cruz because I simply could not deal with his rudeness Poggi elaborated.
He didnt become more civil or well-mannered over the next four years, she stated in an email. When anyone in my class and I talk about him there is no one who breaks in and says Come on guys, he wasnt so bad.
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Ted Cruz college classmates ‘horrified’ he might become president: ‘He called my mother a wh*re!’ (Original Post)
applegrove
Feb 2016
OP
He is literally what the rightwingers want. Someone who hates like they do and isnt
randys1
Feb 2016
#1
That explains why the Republicans love him so much. Perhaps it wasn't such a reach for Jeb to
libdem4life
Feb 2016
#2
randys1
(16,286 posts)1. He is literally what the rightwingers want. Someone who hates like they do and isnt
embarrassed to admit it.
Electing him to the WH does assure an actual revolution in this country, no question.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2. That explains why the Republicans love him so much. Perhaps it wasn't such a reach for Jeb to
bring out GWB. He looks positively well-behaved next to Cruz.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Will Rogers never met Ted Cruz. nt
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)4. I saw a facebook comment about him
"He has that smug smile of someone who just farted in an elevator full of people, knowing that he can't be conclusively blamed"