February 4, 2016
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
In response to remarks made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) to ABC News Monday evening, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer issued the following statement: “We are one city and one state. Our heritage is diversity and tolerance, and our values are community and fair play. “As for how we govern: we do our best to feed the hungry, house the homeless, teach our children, build safe communities, and ensure everyone in our city has a chance at the American dream. If Sen. Cruz has a problem with any of that, he probably should not work in government — any government.”
On Monday, ABC News quoted Sen. Ted Cruz who is running for the Republican nomination in the U.S. presidential race: “As I travel the country here in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, everyone knows what New York values are… It’s the values of the elite liberals that have done enormous damage to New York and they’re a bunch of cops and firemen and hardworking men and women in the great state of New York who are fed up with the out-of-touch values of Manhattan.”
“I will triple border controls” against the immigrant invasion says Cruz, who is from Canada, and Cuba.
Ms. Brewer, a Democrat, has spent her entire life in New York City. Prior to her election as Manhattan Borough President in November 2013, she represented the upper west side as a council member. Previously she has worked for Council member Ruth Messinger, and under New York City’s Mayor David Dinkins and Deputy Public Advocate Mark Green.
The junior senator from Texas, Cruz a Republican was born in Canada, and in 2000 served as domestic policy advisor to George W. Bush during the president’s run for office. Cruz who is one of three Senators of Cuban descent, has never lived or worked in New York City or New York State. In one of his political campaign ads, Cruz, states that if he is elected, he will “triple border control” against the immigrant “invasion.”