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O'Rourke launches bid for Texas governor
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2021 | Tal Axelrod

Posted on 11/15/2021 6:18:39 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

O’Rourke, who also ran for Senate in 2018 and president last year, made the announcement in a fundraising email to supporters, where he touted himself as a unity candidate and railed against “fringe policies and incompetence that we see in Texas today.”

“I am running for governor to serve ALL of the people of Texas,” he said. “I believe that the only way we are going to achieve great things for this state is by looking out for each other and moving forward together.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1; betoorourke; bid; bobblehead; governor; gregabbott; orourke; texas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All governor Abbott’s Campaign staff needs to do is show the news clip interview where the fake Mexican was running for senator on top of scenic Drive in El Paso over looking the border and saying that if he was elected he would open WIDE the border to ALL and ban guns! Texans at this present moment are fed up with the invaders invading our state and demand the wall ..so if Abbott is smart he would immediately put out a campaign ad Robert’s stupidity! This type of talk cooked his goose last time, now things are MUCH more worse than they were when he was running for senator. The Abbott campaign needs to start attacking him right off the gate because this fake Mexican POS still has a lot of support in all these blue mega cities! Also Robert is shrewd he ran circles around Cruz in the Tx debate... Abbott better be prepared with ammo against this stink bug!!


21 posted on 11/15/2021 6:38:57 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He couldn’t have better timing. /s


22 posted on 11/15/2021 6:39:38 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: brownsfan
Look at Terry McAuliffe.
And he had actually been governor before.
23 posted on 11/15/2021 6:41:12 AM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe he is a loser, but he has the scam down pat. He knows that he will be the national Media Darling. As such, support and money will fly in from all corners of the country. Who cares if he wins or not? His coffers will be full, and he will get an inside shot at the next presidential nomination.


24 posted on 11/15/2021 6:43:02 AM PST by fhayek
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To: SMARTY

Beto has figured out how to take a losing message, pathetic candidate, and the Harold Stassen of modern politics and has figured out how to turn a candidacy into a marketing ploy. He must make millions from his scam of running races he can’t win! Does he have any other means of income? Or do other Dems pay him thousands for a speech, as the Clintons perfected?


25 posted on 11/15/2021 6:43:13 AM PST by DrHFrog
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“I am running for governor to serve ALL of the people of Texas,”

This POS hasn't even seen the outside of Austin. If he ventured to say, Midland/Odessa he would find out just how popular he really is.

26 posted on 11/15/2021 6:43:31 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

Paging Lesko Beto.


27 posted on 11/15/2021 6:45:17 AM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I used to be that you “got two bites at the apple.”

I guess that doofus can raise money...and that’s all that matters.

With all of the fools moving there from California...it will be interesting to see if they will vote to bring their socialist ways to their new home.


28 posted on 11/15/2021 6:47:10 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: DrHFrog

Ha! They are all laughable poseurs...and PAID to challenge Joe.

I decided that all those people (14?) who challenged Joe for the DNC Nomination were people with absolutely no intention of winning the WH.

It was a Liberal ploy so the MSM could focus on all the candidates, keeping the glare of scrutiny OFF Joe and his many, and obviousl failings!!

If Joe had the full attention of the MSM for the entire campaign, he could not have stood up to it!!


29 posted on 11/15/2021 6:49:09 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: SMARTY

Beto stands a very good chance to win.
DNC had the cheat to win plan
Millions of new voters from Mexico and Central America
Candidate with the phony name, Beto.

Repubs had better be paying attention.


30 posted on 11/15/2021 6:49:17 AM PST by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: Vermont Lt

They should require the tech companies to hire local instead of moving in Californians.


31 posted on 11/15/2021 6:57:03 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This guy is a piece of work.


32 posted on 11/15/2021 6:59:11 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I am running for governor to serve ALL of the people of Texas,” AND I AM COMING FOR YOUR GUNS

Good luck with that in Texas. Lol


33 posted on 11/15/2021 6:59:34 AM PST by patriot torch
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To: Jane Long

Correct. We do a lot of traveling back-and-forth to San Antonio and believe me I have never seen so many California plates heading towards Dallas Austin and San Antonio the biggest rapidly growing blue cities in Texas. But one reason they’re heading towards the blue cities is because they feel comfortable living among their own thinking and voting communities. I lived in Austin back in the 80’s and yes it was a Democrat city but not to the extend that it is now with all the liberal companies and the university attracting all these marxist liberals from California. I’m already accepting the unavoidable fact that Texas will go blue in less than a decade. There is just no way Texas can survive the influx of people fleeing blue cities and add to the equation the multiple thousands of invaders settling in Texas! If you believe that they will vote conservative to keep Texas red I’ve got a lake to sell you in the Sahara desert.


34 posted on 11/15/2021 6:59:53 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: NautiNurse

He was into skateboarding, IIRC.

Now, I have no problem with a 16 or 17 year old kid skateboarding. When I see a 26 year old loser like the domestic abuser/strangler that Kyle Rittenhouse shot because the guy was trying to decapitate him with a skateboard, it just reeks “loser” to me.


35 posted on 11/15/2021 7:01:18 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Omigosh, is he going to compete against that Matthew McConahey(sp)? What a smorgasbord of a-holes for the dims to choose from!


36 posted on 11/15/2021 7:02:07 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His campaign slogan:

“BETO - Fake Mexican, Real Pendejo”

The republicans snookered the dems by getting this doofus to run. A gun confiscating governor will never be elected in Texas.


37 posted on 11/15/2021 7:02:10 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: rlmorel

Unless you’re Tony Hawk, who figured out how to make a lot of money doing it.


38 posted on 11/15/2021 7:03:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Great news!
Nobody incinerates liberal cash like Beta!
Send your money Hollywood and NYC!


39 posted on 11/15/2021 7:03:29 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: dfwgator

Of course. That is completely different, IMO.


40 posted on 11/15/2021 7:05:18 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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