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.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Yes I would cvote for Ray, Beto? not so much...
Hell I almost voted for Kinky Freidman,, but that’s another story...
Well, he’s good as a rocker, but that doesn’t translate to trust. LOL
Beto is neither. He’s a Soros puppet.
Ray aint no politician, but he’s a good Daddy and Texan.
Hang that in yer ear Beto!
I kinda and figured Kinky could not be all that bad, heck, he’d be smoking doobies and cigars, drinking what he likes strumming guitar in the state house mansion with Willie Nelson, and no legislation would be passed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24C4NY0ga8
Suits me fine...
Excellent
Elsewhere in the state maybe but not in Austin. Hillary campaigned harder in Wisconsin and Michigan than Cruz is here. Beto is running unopposed.
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