Texas right wing religious nut in Idaho to scam delegates-

Ted Cruz, the most immoderate person running for President, is in Idaho stumping for Republican delegates to be chosen in their March 8 primary election.

It is not impossible that Ted Cruz could win enough delegates to throw the Republican convention into brokering a candidate. He could also win it outright. As of today, he is not very far behind Trump in delegates.

As Cruz said in his losing bid in Nevada, he is telling us here in the Gem State that our U.S. public lands should be returned to the states. That is 62% of the land area of Idaho. Cruz says this though these lands were never part of Idaho or any state. Even more significantly, he said “better yet” the lands should all be private. This, of course, is the way it is in Texas where he comes from.

I have always had doubts about Texas and its bragging about its size and superiority. From when I first encountered hordes of Texans crowding out native Coloradoans in the public lands there, Texas has always seemed to me like a place where everyone but the super rich have to walk inside the lines. There is no freedom of access to the land. It’s a big state, but so what? Do we want to be like Texas?

Cruz has an odd sense of freedom. Folks have to understand that he is a Christian dominionist for whom freedom means turning our country into a theocracy where a handful of right wing Christian sects and denominations would rule and the rest of us would have to bow to their false god. For real and potential tyrants, freedom has always meant doing what you are told by the enlightened one or enlightened few. Maybe we could hide out in the hills, but under Cruz we would be trespassing on what was our open land.

Cruz and the Texas elite don’t understand the West. Their ideas are alien. Their billionaire-backed movement to privatize the public lands is just as bad as occupation by a foreign power. Maybe if Trump gets to build his wall it will go on the north border of Texas. 😉

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In Idaho, Cruz says feds should transfer public lands to states, private interests. Spokesman-Review

Ted Cruz attacks Donald Trump for wanting to leave public land in feds’ hands. Politifact