That’s the advice he gave them in an interview with CNN, in response to outrage from the Texas delegation over his comments this week that Texas is “a crazy state.”
“I love Texans, but I do not like their policy makers who are in the majority,” he said. “The simple fact of the matter is, evidently, I touched a nerve deep in the heart of Texas. And I would ask them to tie a yellow rose around it and do like ‘Frozen’ and ‘Let it go.'”
On Tuesday, all 25 Republicans in the Texas delegation demanded Hastings apologize for the comments, which he made during a Monday House Rules Committee debate over a bill repealing Obamacare.
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The Texas delegation made it clear Hastings isn’t welcome there. And Hastings has likely sparked some anger at home. But he didn’t seem to mind. On Thursday, Hastings said when he retires, which he hinted would come after one more re-election bid, he’s “not so sure I’m going to stay [in Florida], largely because of the policymakers.”
“I have a lot of other places that I can live,” he said.
