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| Tex Senator Cruz Offers Gun Makers Lone Star State Safe Haven After Rahm Emanuel Bullying |
| 2013-01-30 |
| Feeling bullied by Rahm Emanuel? Bring your business down to Texas. That's the message Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is sending big banks and firearms companies, after the Chicago mayor urged those banks to stop lending to the gun manufacturers. The freshman senator sent a letter Tuesday to the CEOs of Bank of America and TD Bank Group offering up the Lone Star State as a place where they could do business without hassle from the government. He said he understands that, since they do "considerable business" with Chicago, they might be worried about the "risks" of not complying with Emanuel's request. "In light of the reception you have received in the Windy City, please know that Texas would certainly welcome more of your business and the jobs you create," Cruz wrote in his Jan. 29 letter. "Texans value jobs and value freedom, and over 1,000 people a day are moving to Texas (often from cities like Chicago), because Texas is where the jobs are." |
| Posted by:Dino Shomomp7692 |
| #4 Bought and sold within Texas without the scrutiny and control of the Federal government You forget the infinite adaptability of the Commerce Clause... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-01-30 11:12 |
| #3 Bought and sold within Texas without the scrutiny and control of the Federal government No doubt Texas would then get masses of gun tourists, just as California is getting masses of pregnant tourists, come to give birth to American citizens. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-01-30 11:05 |
| #2 Bought and sold within Texas without the scrutiny and control of the Federal government. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-01-30 09:34 |
| #1 Bring your gun manufacturing business to Texas? The next step would be to pass legislation under the 10th Amendment which should allow firearms to be bought and sold within Texas. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-01-30 09:33 |