Senator Ted Cruz is in the doghouse with some critics assaulting him for leaving his pet Snowflake at home in the middle of frost storms, as he and the rest of the family left for Cancun, Mexico, according to a report.
The Republican lawmaker has stated out of public outrage that he only listened to his teenage daughters on their trip with their friends because, like millions of fellow Texans, their family had lost heat and water.
Michael Hardy, a journalist for New York Magazine’s Intelligence, said he decided to visit Houston’s Cruz house in the exclusive River Oaks neighborhood, where he saw a white dog looking through a glass at the front door. .
“Is it Senator Cruz’s house?” the journalist asked a man who got out of a vehicle parked on the roadway.
The man, who identified himself as a security guard, said yes and that the senator was not home.
When asked who cared for the lone mutt in the allegedly cold house, the guard said yes.
In 2014, Cruz identified the dog as a rescue puppy named Snowflake, Hardy wrote on Twitter, where he posted a photo of the abandoned dog.
“I just drove through Ted Cruz’s house in Houston. His lights are off, but a neighbor told me the block regained power last night. Plus, it looks like Ted left the family poodle behind, ”he wrote.
His place generated a ray of vitriol against the facing senator.
“Tell me they didn’t really leave this dog alone at home,” one person wrote.
“That dog deserves better,” gnawed another.
“The snowflake has joined 99.9% of Americans who apparently don’t support @tedcruz,” a third said.
Some users labeled ASPCA and PETA, while others expressed some skepticism about the image.
“Where are the snow and ice?” said one.
“I don’t think it’s really a @tedcruz house, where’s the snow?” added another.
“I tried to explain that after two sunny days of 40 degrees, the snow and ice had melted, but some kept insisting that the photo was fake,” Hardy wrote.
Cruz, who interrupted his trip to Mexico and returned Thursday, told reporters that the trip was “obviously a mistake and, in sight, he would not have done so.”