Rather than returning from a beach vacation to Mexico this weekend, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and some photographers helped hand out bottled water to Texans who still have no drinking water for a week after an unusually long and cold winter storm on Saturday . the state comes to a stop. On Sunday, Cruz posted photos of himself cutting chest and posing with uniformed law enforcement officers, in front of Houston firefighters and other first responders.
While Cruz was outside in the suddenly warm Houston sun – and endured even more ridicule for his short-lived vacation in Cancun, this time on SNL – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) continued to raise money for Texans, distributing food at the Houston Food Bank with Reps on Saturday. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)).
On Sunday evening, she reported that her fundraiser, which launched Thursday, hit the $ 5 million mark.
One final update (I think!): We just raised $ 5 million for Texans across the state.
Thank ALL for your collective action when people need it most.
Charity cannot replace policy, but solidarity is how we will face climate change and build a better world.
Thank you pic.twitter.com/RzdgXllXoS
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 22, 2021
The funds raised by AOC will go to food banks in Texas, Feeding Texas, Family Eldercare and the Bridge Homeless Recovery Center and other nonprofits, Houston Public Media reports. Cruz also had useful information for Texans through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Along with the warm weather melting the snow, Texans usually have their strength back – nearly 18,000 Sunday nights, less than 4 million last week – and the water service comes back online, often with orders to cook it before drinking. At least 32 Texans died in the storm, including an 11-year-old boy in Conroe, Christian Pavon, who was found dead of suspected hypothermia after two nights in an uninsulated trailer with his family.
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