Posted on 08/23/2018 8:37:07 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke of Texas has said that in younger days he was twice arrested in his hometown of El Paso--once, he says, for leaping a campus fence and the other time for driving while intoxicated.
Readers have asked us whether the third-term congressman challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has a criminal history. We decided to fact-check mention of the arrests in a 2012 TV ad that also was screenshot for an April 2017 Texas Tribune news story.
In the ad, sponsored by then-U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, text next to what looks like O’Rourke’s mugshot states that the "facts" are that O’Rourke has a "criminal record" including burglary and DWI.
The ad’s narrator says O’Rourke "has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests."
That he does, we confirmed, which he’s acknowledged since his first run for office.
We tried to phone and email Reyes about his claim and failed to connect. Next, we attempted to get our own fix on the facts by seeking documentation of the DWI arrest through a public information request to the El Paso Police Department. Martin Rodriguez, a department records specialist, said by email the agency had no responsive records. We similarly queried the University of Texas at El Paso about the earlier arrest and didn’t immediately hear back.
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So, he may be overqualified to be a Democrat candidate.
Ping.
For a Democrat in Congress it’s a resume enhancer.
OMG!! DWI like W Bush? Its over for her. s/
Beto is a guy.
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Burglary charges were dropped. The DUI was a misdemeanor and he went to “DUI Class”. This is a nothing burger and it would be counterproductive to try to make it into something more.
The Houston Comical is a liberal rag. They probably published the story to show what an “upfront honest guy” Beto is.
Was it related to jumping over the fence?
Hmmmm
Well I too had been arrested a few times....second degree murder , kidnapping, Mann act ...the usual fare
Thst was a joke...I can just see some cat ladies here going oh God I just knew it..lol
I think 17 percent of adult males are currently disenfranchised someways over rights from voting to licenses to rkba
This is where righties get statist and I diverge
But it wouldn’t hurt to mention that O’Rourke had been charged with burglary.
That would not be a false statement and it might tarnish his reputation with some on the fence Texas voters. OTOH, in certain parts of Texas (Houston, Dallas, etc), it may be a reputation enhancer.
Youthful indiscretions. Rats forgive their own. I liked the one about W driving his girlfriend to the abortion clinic. He turned the other cheek.
What worries me is that if Beto somehow does win, he will become the big name Nationally for the Rats.
We need to kill this baby in the womb.
Oops!
Most never get past the headline
I thinks he’s under qualified. No beating up girl friends arrests.
That’s JV level compared to most in the Congress.
so Beta is a gal
Oh damn, too much coffee this a.m. and bad eye sight, I saw Betty.
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