Sonny Carl is an actor with a Texas drawl who’s played many character parts over the years including a local Texan explaining his state in Richard Linklater's dark comedy film "Bernie". While Beto isn’t going negative, the “Fire Ted Cruz” PAC steps up to the plate.
An anti-Ted Cruz group is poking fun at the senator's "Tough as Texas" slogan by pointing out how he cozied up to Donald Trump despite the abuse the president heaped on him during the 2016 campaign.
The ad, released Monday by Fire Ted Cruz PAC and cut by Austin director Richard Linklater, uses the actor who explains Texas' cultural geography in Linklater's film Bernie.
"I mean, come on," says Sonny Carl Davis, in character as the same small-town Texan he plays in Bernie. "If somebody called my wife a dog, and said my daddy was in on the Kennedy assassination, I wouldn't be kissing their ass. You stick a finger in their chest and give 'em a few choice words. Or you drag their ass out by the woodshed and kick their ass, Ted. Come on. Ted."
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"Sonny's character really captures what most Texans understand about Cruz: he's a spineless liar who puts his own ambition ahead of doing his job for the people of Texas," said Marc Stanley, a Dallas lawyer and Democratic donor who formed the PAC, which operates independently of Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke's campaign.
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