Ted Cruz Surprises Sandy Hook Victim's Daughter With Telephone Call [View all]
Source: Fox
The daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal who died in the mass killing in December could not join others from her community this week to lobby for gun control.
So she turned to Twitter to reach out to the 15 senators who indicated they would engage in a filibuster to block legislation on gun control. She said she just wanted them to vote, not put roadblocks in the way of debate and voting.
Only one of the senators called Erica Lafferty after her tweet – Ted Cruz.
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He first offered condolences for her loss, calling the shooting “an unspeakable tragedy,” the paper said.
“I think, at the end, we agreed to disagree,” Lafferty is quoted as saying in the Times. “I think I stumped him a bit. I made my point that the purpose of being in Congress is to debate and to vote. And that is what his state elected him to do. Not to hide behind a filibuster. That is not doing his job.”
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During the roughly 20-minute conversation, Cruz said that he preferred more prosecution of criminals and better rules concerning involuntary commitment for people who are mentally ill.
A Cruz spokeswoman told reporters: “He is glad they had the chance to speak and it was a respectful conversation.”
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/04/12/ted-cruz-surprises-sandy-hook-victim-daughter-with-telephone-call
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