This week, two of the
Current
‘s most-read articles revolved around people who frequently evoke shudders of revulsion among South Texans: Yolanda Saldivar and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
Saldivar — the convicted killer of beloved Tejano singer Selena — made news because she’ll be featured in a two-part documentary series airing this month on the Oxygen True Crime cable network.
Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,
scheduled to
run Feb. 17 and 18, will feature a new, wide-ranging interview Saldivar gave from prison.
Meanwhile, Cruz has proposed legislation that would make it easier for lawmakers to pass through airports unnoticed by giving them private security checks so they don’t have to rub shoulders with the unwashed electorate. This, of course, from the man who faced ridicule after fellow travelers spotted him catching a flight to Cancun while his Texas constituents were shivering — and sometimes dying — without power during Winter Storm Uri.
Are the acts equally despicable? Perhaps not.