9 Reasons Texans Should Vote for Cruz and Toss Out Allred 

My Texan and American friends, this is a non-partisan article by which rational voters can decide which is the most qualified and capable choice for the U.S. Senate, the upper chamber of Congress.  What follows are reasons to vote for Sen. Ted Cruz over Rep. Colin Allred as the most suitable candidate based on facts relevant to the position.

1. Cruz is a trustworthy, anti-Establishment, public servant.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, there can never be a question of where Cruz stands, and if he will ever compromise his principles out of political expedience.  Indeed, he has opposed both the Democrat and Republican Establishment equally whenever their agendas ran contrary to his mandate to Texans and the American people, even to the detriment of his own political career.  Cruz’s renowned 21-hour speech on the Senate floor (in direct opposition to the Senate majority leader of his own party) is an ostensible display of his passion, as well as his strong legs, large bladder, and enormous proverbial testicles.  In spite of such fierce opposition from his own political peers, Cruz never deviated from his promises and mandate to the American people. Thus, he has been consistently principled, whereas others have been principled only until Election Day. 

2. Cruz has more vast experience in legal and constitutional matters than Allred.

At roughly the same time when Allred was still attending high school in the 1990s, Cruz graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, served as a law clerk for a U.S. appeals court juror and then for a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.  Between the time Allred finished his tenure at Baylor University and kicking a football around professionally for the NFL (2001-2010), Cruz already started serving the country in various capacities.

First, he taught U.S. Supreme Court Litigation as an adjunct professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.  Then, Cruz served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department, and finally as Texas solicitor general.  During that time, he authored over 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, achieving an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, some of which I listed in a previous article.  Cruz is currently serving his second term as U.S. senator.  

Such an extensive legal background gives him the competitive advantage to effectively author or vote for or against legislation on a wide range of issues with legal and constitutional implications—concerns of privacy, free speech, property rights, criminal justice, immigration, foreign policy, etc. Allred would have to rely excessively on legal advisors or attorneys for their expertise or simply draw from his own limited knowledge and experience from being a short-term attorney and lawmaker.

3. As a U.S. senator, Cruz has crafted and supported several significant bills for Americans and the nation.

• He supported a bill which lowered taxes and increased income for the labor force (including wages and benefits), helped create thousands of jobs (some at record levels), accelerated economic growth, and contributed to America’s global competitive advantage.

• He introduced a bill to make the aforementioned tax cuts permanent.  Even Sen. Bernie Sanders agrees they were a “very good thing,” which is why they “should’ve made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent.”

• He supported a pipeline project which would create jobs and lower the price of goods and services due to the reduced cost of energy.

• He co-authored a law permitting the states to impose mandatory drug testing for federal unemployment benefit recipients.

• He introduced legislation that, if passed, would ensure all pertinent agencies report convictions to the National Background Check Database, which would have prosecuted anyone who attempted to illegally purchase a firearm, such as the Texas church shooter. It also would have provided more school security, e.g., metal detectors and police officers.

• In the midst of the fierce debate about separating undocumented parents from their children, he introduced emergency legislation that would permit them to remain together during detention.

• He co-authored a bill allocating a few billion dollars in tax relief to Hurricane Harvey victims, including tax credits for small businesses that kept paying their employees (even if such employees were unable to arrive at their workplace, or the business was shut down due to the storms).

• Amid attempts by numerous Chinese nationals and other illegal aliens to acquire unauthorized access to Department of Defense installations, Cruz introduced the GATE CRASHERS Act, which would strengthen criminal penalties for such trespassing.

• He added a provision to the Military Construction and Veterans’ Affairs Appropriations bill, which would address the long waiting period in which veterans must currently wait to receive healthcare at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System.

• He sponsored the Student Empowerment Act, which would expand the reach of 529 savings accounts for K-12 and college education to include public, private, religious, and home schooling expenses (e.g., tutoring, standardized testing fees, educational therapies for disabled students).

• He introduced the Expatriate Terrorist Act, which revokes the citizenship of any American who collaborates with Islamic terrorists and bans those who leave the country to join them.

4. As a U.S. senator, Cruz has worked in bipartisanship with his peers.

• Cruz worked with Rep. Henry Cuellar (Laredo) in expediting the permitting process in the expansion of 4 key bridges used to cross the Texas-Mexico border and bringing the inflow of over $800 billion in trade and commerce into Texas and America.

• Cruz collaborated with Javier Palomarez (president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Business Council) to reform H1B high tech visas.

• Cruz worked with Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) on the Pay Our Coast Guard Act, which would secure the salaries of Coast Guardsmen in the event of a government shutdown (like other military personnel)

• Cruz collaborated with Sen. Raphael Warnock (Georgia) in extending Interstate 14 from the Permian Basin to Georgia’s Atlantic Coast.

5. Cruz supports energy independence and the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to curb inflation (thereby lowering food and gas prices), while Allred opposes them.

• Cruz sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision to vacate permits for the Rio Grande LNG project and Texas LNG project.

• While Allred voted for a current law, which has increased taxes and fees on natural gas and energy production, Cruz introduced legislation to repeal them and help curb inflation.

• Allred voted against a bill, which would lift Biden’s pause on LNG exports.

• Allred voted against the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act.

• Allred voted against the Lower Energy Costs Act.

6. Cruz favors strong border security, while Allred opposes it.

• Cruz introduced the El Chapo Act, which would appropriate the seized assets of drug lords for the construction of the border wall that Allred has characterized as “racist.”

• Cruz included border security amendments to the 2022 Coast Guard Authorization Act, which enhances the surveillance capabilities for the southern maritime border.

• Cruz introduced the Secure the Border Act, which is a comprehensive plan that will provide physical and technological border improvements, manpower assistance to Border Patrol and ICE Enforcement Removal Operations, protection to families seeking entry at the border and unaccompanied alien children, and will reform immigration parole, asylum, and legal immigration workforce issues.

• Cruz sponsored the No FAMS at the Border Act of 2024, which allows for the deployment of federal air marshals to the southern and northern U.S. borders.

• Cruz co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act, which mandates that the Homeland Security secretary incarcerate aliens who have been charged with crimes committed in the U.S.

• Allred voted against the Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act (11/30/2023).

• Allred voted against the Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024 (09/29/2023).

• Allred voted against the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (05/11/2023).

• Allred voted for an amendment to an appropriations bill, which would bar federal funds from being used toward the Texas border and immigration enforcement program.

• Allred voted against the resolution condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities to provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States (06/22/2023)

7. Cruz is a staunch supporter of law enforcement and public safety, while Allred has disregarded both.

• Before the Senate floor, Cruz criticized all government officials who led the charge to defund the police, while Allred supported the anti-police, anti-ICE organization, known as NetGen America.

• Cruz introduced a bill that would appropriate over $38 billion to enforce school security and double the number of school resource officers in order to reduce gun violence.

• Cruz introduced the Back the Blue Act, which would increase penalties for anyone who targets law enforcement officers and would provide news protective equipment.

• Cruz introduced the Texas Rangers Bicentennial Resolution in the Senate, which commemorates the 200^th anniversary of the founding of the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

• Allred voted against the Police Act of 2023.

8. Cruz favors the separation of biological males from biological females in sports, whereas Allred favors integration.

• Cruz introduced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would protect athletic opportunities for female athletes.

• Allred voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.

• Allred voted against the Parental Bill of Rights, which mandated parental consent to change a child’s sex-based accommodations at school (e.g. athletic programs, restrooms, changing rooms).

• Allred opposed a proposal in the Texas legislature, which would have mandated schools to adopt a bathroom policy based on biological sex, not gender identity.

• Allred cosponsored the Transgender Bill of Rights resolution that permitted participation in sports based on gender identity and the elimination of restrictions on gender modification procedures.

9. As an ethnic minority, Cruz’s achievements make him an ideal role model for other minorities in forging their own American success story.

• He is the first Hispanic from Texas to serve in the U.S. Senate.
• He was the first Hispanic to serve the longest term of solicitor general in Texas history.

• He was the first Hispanic to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.

• At Harvard Law School, wherein Professor Alan Dershowitz referred to Cruz as being “off-the-charts brilliant,” he was a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.

• Cruz’s own role model, his father, was imprisoned and tortured for being an enemy of the Batista regime in Cuba, prior to Fidel Castro overthrowing it.  After fleeing Cuba and coming to Texas with $100 sewn into his underwear, he learned English, while washing dishes for fifty cents per hour.  After earning a mathematics degree from the University of Texas in Austin, he started a small business in the oil and gas industry.  Hence, Cruz’s father---raised in poverty (under an authoritarian government), migrating to the U.S. and assimilating, becoming an entrepreneur, and starting a family---has proven that the American Dream is achievable by virtually anyone, regardless of economic status, ethnicity, or nationality.

In conclusion, my Texan and American friends, I urge you all to support Ted Cruz for the U.S. Senate for the simple reason that he is a trustworthy, astute, accomplished public servant. That is precisely what Texas and America need.  Also, ask yourself the following questions:  Do you support policies, which will keep food and gas prices high and possibly raise them higher?  Do you support weak border security, which have enabled murderers, rapists, and drug and human trafficking into America from Mexico?  Do you support defunding the police?  Do you want men playing in women’s sports, and should boys be allowed in the restrooms of girls in public schools?  If not, then we agree that Allred is not all right.  Therefore, choose Cruz.  Veto Allred.