...it is boiling to the surface (Republicans are you listening?) Welcome to the North East
Ted Cruz unwelcome in the Bronx on Wednesday as hip-hop activist heckles him in a restaurant
High schoolers get his speech canceled by threatening a mass walkout
High schoolers get his speech canceled by threatening a mass walkout
As
Cruz toured the lunch spot, a man identified as one half of a Latin
hip-hop duo called Rebel Diaz yelled that the Texas senator is a 'bigot'
and said he wasn't welcome because of his positions on illegal
immigration.
'Ted
Cruz has no business being in the Bronx!' the heckler shouted from the
front of the Sabrosura2 restaurant where Cruz was making a campaign
stop.
'This is an immigrant community. We deal with climate change every single day, and he wants to say that it doesn't exist.'
Photo: Polaris
Visit: Ted Cruz was meeting Bronx
community leaders in the Sabrorusa2 restaurant in the New York borough
when he was interrupted. The leaders included (in the hat) the Rev Ruben
Diaz, a New York state senator from the Bronx who is a conservative
Democrat opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage
Photo: Polaris
Protest: Both members of the Latin
hip-hop duo called Rebel Diaz - Chilean brothers Rodrigo (left) and
Gonzalo (right) Venegas - were involved in the protest. It is unclear
which one actually heckled
Activist: Gonzalo Venegas spoke afterwards about his disgust at Ted Cruz
Statement of intent: The hip-hop duo
tweeted that they had taken action against Cruz and one of the members
embarked on a far longer rant as he heckled the Republican candidate
'We
live in one of the poorest congressional districts in the country,' the
man went on. 'And to receive this right-wing bigot is an insult to the
whole community.'
'You're running on an anti-immigrant platform, and you're speaking in the Bronx,' he said. 'You should not be here!'
Both
members of the band - Chilean-American brothers Rodrigo and Gonzalo
Venegas - were present but it was unclear which one was shouting
Cruz
complained during a brief press gaggle about an aggressive statement
Trump issued Tuesday night he was on the losing end of a brutal primary
election pounding in Wisconsin
Trump, he said, can't win the Republican nomination but 'likes to yell and scream and insult and curse.'
But Cruz may have felt like screaming a little himself as his day went from bad to worse.
Students
at Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy told their teachers
that if Cruz was permitted to follow through on a planned speech there,
they would stage a mass walkout.
They told their principal 'if he came here, we would schedule a walkout,' 16-year-old Destiny Domeneck told the New York Daily News.
'Most of us are immigrants or come from immigrant backgrounds. Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for.'
New York's primary election is on April 19, the next big contest along the road to the presidential nomination.
Cruz is in third place among the three Republicans, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday morning.
Photo:AP
In the Bronx: Heidi Cruz accompanied
her husband on a trip which saw his plan to visit a high school canceled
by a threat of a mass walk-out by students
Cruz
watched as police led his heckler out, and then remarked that 'we need
positive solutions, not the kind of anger that that man has.'
A
second protester who made it to the door of the eatery taunted Cruz:
'You got to be born in America to be president! Don't waste your time!'
That man was also identified as a member of Rebel Diaz.
The
group's Twitter feed boasted afterward: 'Just rolled up on @tedcruz in
#TheBronx he had a secret meeting w/ @revrubendiaz and we had to
#ShutThatS**tDown real quick. #PeoplePower'
Rev. Ruban Diaz is a conservative Hispanic preacher in the Bronx and a Democratic member of the New York State Senate.
More than half of the roughly 1.5 million people who live in the Bronx are Hispanic, U.S. Census data show.
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