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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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: fhayek

He’s got a great gig and I applaud his candidacy.
Sucking up liberal cash from across the country in a losing effort.


41 posted on 11/15/2021 7:05:47 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: rlmorel
He was into skateboarding, IIRC.

Ah yes. He skateboarded onto a stage during one of his failed campaigns. Thanks!

42 posted on 11/15/2021 7:13:45 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Has there been an office this shiftless kid has not run for?
He needs to get a job and a life.


43 posted on 11/15/2021 7:15:40 AM PST by chuckee
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To: ChicagoConservative27
From your keyboard to God's ears, CC27.

Though truly I don't see how he could possibly win in Texas. Those people remember when he was little Bobby O'Rourke, and they didn't care for his father even then.

44 posted on 11/15/2021 7:16:54 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Kaitlin Bennett was talking to a bunch of college kids, and asked them who they were voting for.

They all hollered BETO!!

Then she asked what they thought of Robert Francis O'Rourke.

WHO??

45 posted on 11/15/2021 7:21:26 AM PST by real saxophonist (I'll procrastinate later.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

are you planning on voting for him?


46 posted on 11/15/2021 7:25:59 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: Texas resident

Beto stands a very good chance to win.

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Nah, he stands a chance, but not a very good one. When he ran for Senator, he acted like a moderate.
However, when he ran for president he went full looney left . Texas isn’t ready for a gun grabber yet.


47 posted on 11/15/2021 7:29:54 AM PST by kara37 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In other news, the sky is blue and dogs eat their own crap.


48 posted on 11/15/2021 7:32:15 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope he is a three time loser.


He’s the definition of insanity.


49 posted on 11/15/2021 7:36:30 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Run adds playing audio of Bebo saying how he will take away our guns with videos of the democrat riots last year playing with in the background.


50 posted on 11/15/2021 7:39:09 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Jane Long
He’s the definition of insanity.

Running a losing campaign for office as a democrat is a proven way to rake in big bucks while gaining national visibility for a later career as a talking head on CNN or MSNBC.

51 posted on 11/15/2021 7:43:47 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: moonhawk

Beto O’Rourke put turd in a bowl and told his wife it was an avocado, friend says

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke once placed a piece of their child’s poop in a bowl and told his wife that it was an avocado.

The snippet comes from a Washington Post article about O’Rourke’s marriage . The anecdote was relayed by a friend of the couple, and although neither O’Rourke nor his wife Amy confirmed its veracity, O’Rourke acknowledged that it sounded like something he would do.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-reportedly-put-childs-turd-in-a-bowl-and-told-his-wife-it-was-an-avocado


52 posted on 11/15/2021 8:34:17 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“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.”

Starting his campaign with the dullest bromide in his arsenal. The boy is not very bright.


53 posted on 11/15/2021 8:43:38 AM PST by odawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

54 posted on 11/15/2021 8:46:54 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: God luvs America

Sounds like he’d make a fine Governor /s.


55 posted on 11/15/2021 9:31:19 AM PST by moonhawk (Biden: Not my President. Fauci: not my doctor. Me: not their bitch. You:???)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Paddy O’Rourke. Just what Texas needs. A drunken Irishman with a criminal record of arrests for DUIs and Burglary. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/22/silvestre-reyes/beto-orourke-arrested-1990s-burglary-and-dwi/


56 posted on 11/15/2021 11:02:02 AM PST by PAR35
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To: SMARTY

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

He had NO scrutiny but rather institutional ignorance from the MSM. How could you explain a candidate to stayed in the basement the entire campaign - keep him out of sight, knowing the ballot box was already stuffed. In a lucid moment he did say they had the most vote fraud campaign of all time! He wasn’t confused, just got off script!


57 posted on 11/16/2021 5:06:34 AM PST by DrHFrog
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To: DrHFrog

“...knowing the ballot box was already stuffed...”

Your’e right....it’s why Joe didn’t campaign ... and didn’t WORRY about not campaigning.

Nothing he and Nancy did would have been possible (much less thinkable) without absolute assurance of media and US postal service complicity!

They are totally OUT OF CONTROL


58 posted on 11/16/2021 5:32:48 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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