Private parties are however permitted, albeit without dancing. The abbreviation “WA” is a common moniker for the US state as well as the western Australian territory that on Monday announced that it was extending a range of Covid health measures to combat the spread of the virus ahead of News Years Eve celebrations.ĭancing is banned (except for weddings), nightclubs are due to remain closed, and Australians are asked to remain outdoors when it is not possible to keep a physical distance.
This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. WA means ‘Western Australia’ not ‘Washington state.’,” Mr Kinzinger wrote.
“Since Ted Cruz deleted this, I’ll post as a reminder to all of us to DO YOUR RESEARCH before posting misinformation. He also appeared to ignore the Kangaroos on the “WA Government” account post, and was instantly inundated with alerts to his mistake – with the tweet boomeranging on the Trump ally.Īdam Kinzinger, a fellow Republican and Cruz-Trump critic, was among the dozens of Twitter users who mocked the Texas senator for confusing Washington State and Western Australia. Mr Cruz, before deleting the tweet, had raged against “Blue-state Dems” who were “power-drunk authoritarian kill-joys” and wrote: “Washington State: NO DANCING ALLOWED!!!” Screenshots of the debacle were widely circulated on the social media platform. The Republican, who swiftly deleted the remarks on Wednesday, had confused a Facebook post from “WA Government” for that of Washington State. this is not the time to relax.Texas senator Ted Cruz was forced into an apparent U-turn on Twitter after he complained about “power drunk” Democrats introducing Covid health measures before realising he was attacking lawmakers almost 10,000 miles away in Western Australia. He said in a tweet not to forget that Austin Mayor Steve Adler "took a private jet with eight people to Cabo and WHILE IN CABO recorded a video telling Austinites to 'stay home if you can. Cruz called them " hypocrites - complete and utter hypocrites." In early December, Cruz tweeted a video clip of a CNN segment about how Democratic officials had been caught not following their own guidelines when it came to Covid-19. Keep your family safe, and just stay home and hug your kids," he said. "I was speaking this weekend with a meteorologist expert who was saying the combination of these two storms, we could see up to 100 people lose their lives this week in Texas. "This storm is dangerous, and there's a second storm expected to hit this week, which will make things even worse, so if you can, stay home. In a radio interview with " The Joe Pags Show" on Monday, Cruz urged his fellow Texans to stay put. If he was in the midst of this and he was experiencing this, I think there would be a different attitude." Galveston Mayor Craig Brown suggested that Cruz was out of touch, telling MSNBC: "It's a response to me of someone who didn't have to experience this. #TedCruzRESIGN." It also sought to raise money for struggling Texans with a website called "." The name is a play on former President Donald Trump's "Lyin' Ted" nickname for Cruz when they ran against each other in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. The state Democratic Party called on Cruz to resign from Congress, tweeting, "Texans are dying and you're on a flight to Cancun. "They reached out to us, let us know that he was going to be arriving and could we assist, so upon his arrival to the Houston airport we monitored his movements," a police department spokesperson told NBC News.ĭemocrats were outraged, as millions of people across Texas have been struggling without power and heat and have suffered water system disruptions for several days in record low temperatures.
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