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A Texas Republican Is Spending This Week at Dairy Queens Slamming Trump’s Border Wall

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It’s Blizzard talk.. No Winter isn’t coming, but this Texas Republican is taking his anti Wall talk on the fast food circuit this Summer – PB/TK 

A Texas Republican Is Spending This Week at Dairy Queens Slamming Trump’s Border Wall – By Tim Murphy / Aug 9 2017

Texas Republicans are laying low during the August recess. Just eight of the 25 Republicans in Texas’ congressional delegation have held a public town hall in 2017. But Rep. Will Hurd is an exception; the second-term congressman, who represents more of the Mexican border than any other member of Congress,  is holding a series of 20 town halls during August (most held at local Dairy Queens), and at many those stops, he has taken aim at one of President Donald Trump’s signature agenda items ”The Wall.

Hurd’s district, one of three Republican-held seats in Texas carried by Hillary Clinton last fall, hugs the Rio Grande for 800 miles, much of it sparsely populated. If Trump did build a physical wall spanning the entire length of the US-Mexico border, about 40 percent of it would sit in Hurd’s district; consequently, Hurd has been a critic of Trump’s proposal dating back to last year. Trump’s wall has been a frequent topic during his town halls this week, and Hurd hasn’t been shy about attacking the president’s idea. In a visit on Monday to Alpine, a gateway to Big Bend National Park, Hurd tore into Trump’s “one-size-fits-all approach to border security.”

“Building a wall from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least-effective way to do border security,” he said.

Continue to motherjones.com article: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/a-texas-republican-is-spending-this-week-at-dairy-queens-slamming-trumps-border-wall/

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