The former NFL player came to Austin for TribFest
The Texas Tribune held its annual politics-focused festival last week with high-profile speakers including one Sen., U.S. Rep. from Texas’ 32nd District, is looking to take Cruz down. Allred is a fourth generation Texan, son of a single mom school teacher, and a former NFL linebacker-turned-civil rights attorney who worked in President’s administration.
Allred’s scheduled one-on-one conversation would have been canceled had his vote been needed to help avert a government shutdown that was spurred, according to the congressman, by the radical right wing of the GOP, who seem intent on holding up everything from military promotions to each and every budget negotiation that comes down the pike. But no such call or compromise came, and Rep.
Asked if things were different on Capitol Hill after January 6, he said that for the first 48 hours they seemed to be, especially when both House Speakerlaid the blame for the attack on Trump. But soon after, Allred says the former president’s enablers backslid and tried to gaslight the country about secret government ops and Antifa, pushing for zero accountability.
“We cannot get into the system now,” Allred implored, “when an election doesn’t go your way and you just try to attack the system, you try to tear it down. We just cannot get into that. That’s one of the reasons Ted Cruz has to lose in this election.” And many hopeful hands came together. Then he drew a stark contrast between himself, recently named as one of the most bipartisan members of the House, and a radical obstructionist who voted against the bipartisan
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