Senator Ted Cruz made his mark on Murfreesboro for an appearance at Patterson Community Center Monday. The event was held in the local gym. Evidently, the event was so packed, that the fire marshal was forced to stop people from entering the large gym. A few hundred were placed in the smaller adjoining gym.

Senator Cruz explained why he was running for president . . .

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Comments from Public

NewsRadio WGNS asked a random group of persons at the Patterson Community Center what they liked about Senator Cruz . . .

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During his talk he received numerous cheers when mentioning repealing the national healthcare, building a stronger military, getting rid of Common Core, going to a flat-tax and eliminating the IRS.

He quipped about redirecting duties of the 90,000 IRS employees to guard the Mexican border. The crowd went wild when he said, "Imagine the illegals swimming across the Rio Grande and suddenly seeing 90,000 IRS workers. They'd turn-back on their own?"

Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz is the junior United States Senator from Texas. The Republican was elected as senator in 2012 and is the first Hispanic or Cuban-American to serve as a U.S. Senator from Texas. He is now making a run for the Whitehouse.

Short Conversation With Media

After the talk at the Patterson Community Center, there was a short period of time allocated for Senator Cruz to talk with the media. Here is what happened . . .

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Democrat Party of Tennessee Releases the following statement:

Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Mary Mancini issued the following statement ahead of GOP Presidential candidate Ted Cruz's visit to Tennessee, where he is expected to make stops from Chattanooga to Memphis.

"Ted Cruz is just another Republican with no fiscal sense and no idea how to govern effectively. Instead of working to ensure that more Americans would be able to take their children to the doctor when they're sick, he instead tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act by shutting down of the federal government, costing the economy a staggering $24 billion dollars.

And instead of working for equal opportunity for all American families, his voting and public record shows just the opposite. He opposes equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage, and, on his quest to privatize the program, has described social security as a 'Ponzi scheme.'

Candidate Cruz represents everything that is wrong with today's Republican Party. He is an extremist with a hatred of government that is so strong that grandstanding and scoring political points eclipses getting anything done on behalf of the American people."