Senator Cruz comes to TSU/SOPA?

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We already knew that we had attracted Republicans to our campus through the Koch’s (see our previous post on Koch money funding CJR) but why do we have to host Senator Ted Cruz also?

https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/07/hbcu-for-salesold-part-3.html?m=1

Isn’t this the same senator who opposes an African American woman on the Supreme Court?  What benefit does it serve us as an HBCU to host a man who does not wish to be a part of history in the making, ironically being hosted by a school named after 2 civil rights icons?    

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/01/ted-cruz-biden-supreme-court/

Subject: Senataor Ted Cruz's Visit to TSU Campus

Dear All,

Good afternoon and hope you are doing well. I would like to inform you that Senator Ted Cruz will be visiting our TSU campus on February 22, 2022. Please share the information with undergraduate and graduate students in your programs and encourage them to attend the meeting in SOPA from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. See the attached itinerary. 

Thank you.

Sarmistha Rina Majumdar, Ph.D.​

Interim Chair, Department of Political Science 

Professor of Public Policy and Administration


Office: 713-313-7385; E-mail: sarmistha.majumdar@tsu.edu

School of Public Affairs, 420B

3100 Cleburne Street, Houston, Texas 77004

www.tsu.edu


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