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Cruz’s campaign mojo questioned after being out-hustled
By Will Weissert
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Ted Cruz slayed
the Texas Republican establish-
ment in 2012 with his Senate
win, took Washington by storm
as its leading conservative
flamethrower and finished sec-
ond only to Donald Trump for
the 2016 GOP presidential nom-
ination.
His success was built on a fre-
netic campaign and tireless trav-
el schedule, raking in small-do-
nor dollars as he hit every
sparsely-attended tea party
gathering, church forum and
Republican women’s luncheon
he could.
Now seeking a second Senate
term, Cruz has been outraised
by his Democratic opponent,
one-time punk rocker and El
Paso Congressman Beto
O’Rourke, who also has visited
more of Texas lately Com-
pounding questions about
whether Cruz’s Texas campaign
mojo is slipping is the candi-
date’s own refusal to rule out an-
other White
House run
post-Trump.
“My focus is
ties on his way
to winning
that state’s
His campaign committee raised
nearly $90 million and outside
groups took in almost $54 mil-
lion more. About 40 percent
came fr om small, individual do-
nors.
7 think Texans almost expect their
elected officials to be in the national
political conservation."
— Ray Sullivan, chief of staff for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry
At*-.'
caucuses in
2016 — but
hasn’t done the
same back
home.
on
re-
tv
presenting 28
million Tex-
After months of largely ig-
noring his opponent, Cruz went
on the attack once he had won
the primary Tuesday, releasing a
country jingle poking fun at
O’Rourke’s nickname of Beto —
calling him “liberal Robert” —
and painting his opponent as
anti-gun and pro-big govern-
ment
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Cruz,
ans,
who is only 47
and has time for another presi-
dential bid, said on a recent con-
ference call with reporters. But
he continued: “In the presiden-
tial race, we saw enormous sup-
port in Texas, where we won the
state solidly, and we saw enor-
mous support nationwide, win-
ning 12 states across the country
and unifying a great many con-
servatives.”
O’Rourke
Cruz
icy and political environment,”
said Ray Sullivan, who was chief
of staff for former Texas Gov.
Rick Perry before becoming
spokesman of his unsuccessful
2012 presidential campaign.
Sullivan noted that while
winning re-election as Texas
governor in 1998, George W.
Bush answered similar ques-
tions about a then-expected
2000 presidential run and “ad-
dressed it straight up and said
essentially the same thing Cruz
did. ‘I don’t have any plans right
now, but I’m not going to take
that bait.’”
“I think Texans almost expect
their elected officials to be in the
national political conservation,”
Sullivan said.
Cruz insists he’s not taken his
eye off the re-election ball, say-
ing, “Were taking nothing for
granted.” He recalled how nearly
every top Texas Republican op-
posed him in 2012 but he still
upset better-known and better-
funded Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
in the Republican primary for
Senate.
But O’Rourke raised $2.4
million to Cruz’s $19 million in
2017’s final months, the second
time the challenger has out-
raised him in a quarter.
That’s a far cry from 2012,
when Cruz raised $8 million
while being backed by national
small-government groups. As a
presidential candidate, Cruz was
the first one in the race and kept
up an exhausting campaign
schedule for more than a year.
‘The best
reliable laugh line is to ask when
Ted Cruz last held a town hall in
their area,” O’Rourke said of his
extensive crisscrossing of Texas.
Being potentially out-hus-
tled by a high-energy candidate
who is now campaigning a bit
like Cruz once did may not be
enough to flip a Senate seat in
deep red Texas, though. Cruz re-
mains the prohibitive favorite,
although his profile has been
lower since the failed presiden-
tial run.
O’Rourke countered that
Texans “want a full time senator”
not a past and future presiden-
tial candidate.
But Cathie Adams, former
Texas Republican Party chair-
woman and early Cruz support-
er, said continuing to eye the
White House is a good thing.
“We’re encouraging him,”
Adams said. “After Trump, we’re
going to need a man like Ted
Cruz to continue the excellence
that has begun.”
O’Rourke sees it as a sign of
Cruz’s complacency and is frying
to take advantage. Whenever
Congress isn’t in session,
O’Rourke packs his days in Tex-
as with events, driving himself
between stops. He has vowed to
visit all 254 Texas counties and
often notes Cruz brags about hit-
ting each of the 99 Iowa coun-
“My view is Senator Cruz
came back to Texas, did a lot of
hard work meeting with local of-
ficials, chambers of commerce,
grassroots Republicans and re-
ally successfully became in-
grained back into the Texas pol-
Officials: Austin downtown
tunnel not built correctly
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE STATE
Plano
Police: Remains are of a
woman missing since 14
Plano police an ested Arochi 3
1/2 months after Morris’ disap-
pearance. He later was convicted,
based partly on DNA samples, of
aggravated kidnapping and sen-
tenced to life imprisonment two
years after her disappearance.
board the plane. Their identities
have not been released.
Marlin
Ex-police chief arrested
on sexual assault charge
A former police chief in Cen-
tral Texas has been anested on
allegations that he forced a
woman to have sex with him by
warning that he would have her
jailed if she didn’t comply.
Quincy Deon Lee was arrest-
ed Wednesday on a charge of
sexual assault. He was the police
chief in Rosebud before resign-
ing in August. An anest affidavit
says the assaults occurred in
2014 and 15 at the police station.
The affidavit alleges Lee, 39,
threatened to have the woman’s
probation revoked for drinking.
Authorities also said he promised
to help her regain custody of her
children if she agreed to have sex.
— The Associated Press
AUSTIN (AP) - A contrac-
tor is suing Austin after city offi-
cials accused the firm of building
a more than $161 million down-
town tunnel with structural
problems they said will reduce
its ability to control flooding.
The city sent a Feb. 23 letter
to S.J. Louis Construction say-
ing workers built the Waller
Creek Tunnel with concrete and
finer problems, as well as miss-
ing sections of rebar needed for
structural integrity. Because of
that, the tunnel has lost much of
its freeboard, which is the extra
capacity built in to guard against
unexpectedly large floods, the
Anstin-Amei'ican Statesman
reported.
“The loss of freeboard reduc-
es the primary purposes of the
tunnel, flood protection,” the let-
ter stated. “The city will never be
made whole and is forced to ac-
cept a tunnel with a diminished
value.”
tunnel, delays in completing it
and costs to determine the ex-
tent of the construction flaws,
according to the letter.
The firm filed a lawsuit
against the city tins week arguing
that Austin can’t terminate a
contract that’s already complete.
It said the city’s threat is a way to
gain leverage to receive payment.
“The steps being taken by the
city are repugnant to the con-
cepts of fair dealing,” the lawsuit
stated. “Termination of the con-
tract would devastate S.J. Louis’
business because it is required to
disclose termination in future
application for government/
public works contracts.”
The company has asked for
temporary restraining order to
prevent Austin from terminat-
ing the contract
Plano police have announced
skeletal human remains found
in a brush area along a creek in
nearby Anna are those of Chris-
tina Morris, a 23-year-old Fort
Worth woman who’s been miss-
ing since 2014.
Police Chief Gregory Rushin’s
Thursday announcement comes
one day after a construction crew
discovered the remains.
Morris had been missing since
Aug. 30,2014, when surveillance
video showed her and longtime
friend Enrique Gutierrez Arochi
walk into a parking garage at an
upscale Plano shopping and res-
taurant complex. Police were no-
tified three days later when family
and friends couldn’t contact Mor-
ris after the long Labor Day week-
end. Her vehicle was found still fir
flie parking garage.
Laredo
The Waller Creek Tunnel is a
one-nrile channel to Lady Bird
Lake. It’s designed to protect
nearby areas from flooding and
allow development of a major
part of downtown currently in
the floodplain.
S.J. Louis’ part of the job was
technically completed in 2015,
and the firm continued making
repairs until last year. But the
tunnel’s structural integrity and
lifespan is still diminished, ac-
cording to the city.
City officials will retroactively
terminate their contract with
S.J. Louis if the firm doesn’t re-
pay Austin $22.3 million for a 10
percent reduced value of the
2 killed when small
plane crashes at airport
Two people have died in the
wr eckage of a small plane that
crashed at Laredo International
Airport in South Texas after the
pilot reported smoke corning
from an engine.
The Piper PA-3 IP had depart-
ed the airport Thursday morning
and was attempting to return
when it crashed in a grassy area
about 50 yards from commercial
buildings adjacent to the airport
grounds. Laredo police spokes-
man Joe Baeza said the two
killed were the only people on
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