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Lupica: Next time Ted Cruz wants to criticize ‘New York City values,’ he should talk to brave 9/11 first responders
This is what Ted Cruz, who wasn't just born out of town but out of the country, said about Donald Trump the other day:
"Well, look, he may shift in his new rallies to play 'New York, New York' because Donald comes from New York and he embodies New York values.'"
In that moment, of course, up in lights as bright as the ones in Times Square and as loud as traffic in the city, Cruz shows you how far out of his depth he is running for President of the United States.
MARK KAUZLARICH/REUTERSThe next time Cruz shows up here and treats the city like an ATM machine, he should make a side trip to the Bronx and explain himself there on New York values.
Cruz really must think he can get the nomination of his party by simply working the slower-thinking precincts, sharing a worldview you could fit inside a shot glass. But people ought to remember what he said about New York the next time he comes here with his hand out, another politician joining the ranks of the city's panhandlers.
If you are dumb enough to act as if New York values are some sort of handicap in this presidential season, then you are as dumb and tone deaf as Jesse Jackson was calling the city "Hymietown" once, as dumb as Gerald Ford was when he gave this paper the most famous front page in its history, the day he effectively told New York to drop dead.
The next time Cruz shows up here and treats the city like an ATM machine, he should make a side trip to the Bronx and explain himself there on New York values; or to the Lower East Side, or Williamsburg, Brooklyn, or Jamaica, Queens, or 125th St. He should go talk to people in the Rockaways or Staten Island, the tough clubfighters of Hurricane Sandy, about New York values.
SHAWN BALDWIN/APNew York City became the capital of heroes on Sept. 11, 2001.
Or finally he should go all the way downtown, go all the way back to September of 2001, when New York City became the capital of heroes running into buildings where nearly 3,000 were about to die when everybody was running out, because they thought they might be able to save one extra life.
If Ted Cruz really does think Donald Trump represents New York values, then Cruz is even more trouble against Trump than he knows, and Trump will end up wiping the floor with him.
Here is what New York values are: New York values are a young guy, a paralegal, literally giving somebody he doesn't know the shirt on his back on a subway because winter has finally come to the city and brought freezing temperatures with it. New York values are theNew York taxi driver who traveled three boroughs across four days to find the guy who had left $1,400 in his cab, so he could return the money to him. You know what that really was? It was the real life of a city that Ted Cruz knows nothing about. He is a tourist here. Maybe we do need to take a closer look at his passport next time he comes to town.
The best of this city is the best of this country, and always has been. When it was hit in a way that no American city had ever been hit, it came together and rose up together in a moment as thrilling as any America had ever seen. This wasn't the civil rights movement, it was a different kind of movement, to lower Manhattan. That was where the city was stronger and better than it ever had been on Sept. 12, when in the words of the great Pete Hamill, the city first got to one knee, and then began to get up. We will never know how it would have gone in another American city. We just know how it went here.
New York values? New York values are the ironworkers who carried their tools in backpacks and gym bags and, by God, walked over the Brooklyn Bridge on the night of Sept. 11, 2001, or all the way downtown from all the way uptown.
CHRIS KEANE/REUTERS"Well, look, he may shift in his new rallies to play 'New York, New York' because Donald comes from New York and he embodies New York values,’” Ted Cruz said of the bombastic billionaire GOP front-runner, who was born in Queens.
One of them I know simply said to a cop who didn't want to let him get close to where the towers had been. And the guy said, "They need me. I cut steel."
Cruz will try to walk himself back from what he said, say that he didn't mean to insult New York, say he loves our city like he loves his girls. But he has already insulted it. So often with these guys, when they get off script, they actually speak from the heart. And when Cruz did he somehow acted as if the values of this city are somehow contrary to the values on which he has based his campaign, whatever those are.
Rep. Pete King came right at Cruz like he was some guy Pete had grown up with in Sunnyside, Queens, who needed a good slap.
"Memo to Ted Cruz," King said in a statement on Thursday. "New York values are the heroes of 9/11; the cops who fight terror; and the people you ask for campaign donations. Go back under a rock."
Cruz is a lightweight. He always has been, however he is doing in caucuses in the heartland. He may do well there. He is just out of his class here. It is the other party that has a donkey as its mascot. But Cruz is the one who's a career jackass.
