Houston. Antonia you were speaking two days ago to a mother who had been driving around because her children needed their medicine at a certain temperature. That certain mother faces Gas Shortages and youre talking to people without water. Whats it like for them . Reporter stephanie, the challenges of this week are starting to have a cumulative effect on people, particularly families that are low income. The lights, the power, the heat is starting to come back on for most people in the city of houston and in harris county, but thats being replaced by a water crisis. People dont have safe water to drink, or they dont have any water at all in many cases. Ive spoken to more families who have been driving around, going to Grocery Stores and gas stations, trying to find someone who can sell them drinkable water. I met with a family yesterday that took somebodys pool water so that they could boil it and allow their children to bathe in the water and to wash some of their clothes because they
Given Texas weather-induced power outages and Sen. Ted Cruz s related optics blunder,
MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle wondered on Friday how he manages to get elected and if Texans will be dumb enough to keep supporting Republicans in the aftermath of the crisis.
During a conversation with progressive Texas political analyst James Moore, Ruhle wondered, Then if this is just Ted Cruz being Ted Cruz, why does he keep getting elected? What does that tell you about Texans?
According to Moore, it tells us that his fellow Texans are stuck in their ways, We keep electing these people that give us problems like what we ve experienced. We have conservatives in Texas who simply think that not just less government is better, but almost no government.