This week, two of the Present’s most-read articles revolved round individuals who ceaselessly evoke shudders of revulsion amongst South Texans: Yolanda Saldivar and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
Saldivar — the convicted killer of beloved Tejano singer Selena — made information as a result of she’ll be featured in a two-part documentary collection airing this month on the Oxygen True Crime cable community. Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets and techniques Between Them, scheduled to run Feb. 17 and 18, will characteristic a brand new, wide-ranging interview Saldivar gave from jail.
In the meantime, Cruz has proposed laws that will make it simpler for lawmakers to cross via airports unnoticed by giving them non-public safety checks so they do not should rub shoulders with the unwashed citizens. This, in fact, from the person who confronted ridicule after fellow vacationers noticed him catching a flight to Cancun whereas his Texas constituents have been shivering — and generally dying — with out energy throughout Winter Storm Uri.
Are the acts equally despicable? Maybe not.
However, for a lot of, Cruz’s work to undermine belief within the U.S. election system throughout in the course of the 2020 election cycle gave him a promotion from laughable blowhard to the type of shameless demagogue who has no enterprise serving in elected workplace.
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1. Selena killer Yolanda Saldivar speaks out in new docu-series airing later this month
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