What's wrong with Beto O'Rourke is that he's covering up a deep neurosis from growing up in a dysfunctional family caught up in border state drug cartel operations.
Various sites on the internets connect dots across the O'Rourke family that are not favorable to an electoral run. Many of the sites are of dubious pedigree, but even a review of Snopes contains the major threads that the dots are connected through. There are even newspaper clippings that prove that the basic factual incidents occurred, if not the imputed motives or dot connections.
The allegations are that:
- His father, a county judge in El Paso, was on the take. He was pulled over one night and drugs were found in his car. Police destroyed the evidence, claiming it was planted (see the newspaper clip linked above). Violent crime increased dramatically during his tenure as county judge, as evidenced by this local TV station report. Finally, he was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident, where he was run over by a pickup truck while bicycling.
- His now father-in-law William Sanders was involved in the secretive Paso Del Norte Group, which also held properties on the other side of the border in he Ciudad Juarez area of Mexico. Beto/Robert was a councilman in El Paso at the time that the Paso Del Norte Group was forming, and refused to recuse himself from city council proceedings involving the business.
- His mother ran a furniture store suspected of laundering cartel drug money. From Snopes, "In 2010, Charlotte's Inc., an El Paso furniture store company started by O'Rourke's grandmother in 1951, was convicted of "structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements," a tax-related felony. The company was charged as a corporate entity, but the Congressman's mother, Melissa O'Rourke, acted as its authorized representative... In total, Charlotte's and its employees illegally restructured $630,000 in payments, all from one customer, in this way between May 2005 and October 2006. The identity of that customer is not known.
Add to this his several DUI's, fleeing the scene of an accident, odd childhood poetry writings, and belonging to a teen computer hacking club, and it all paints a picture of someone who was crying out for help for his entire life.
However sympathetic one might be to someone coming from such an unhealthy upbringing, Robert O'Rourke is like a junior Hunter Biden, and should be kept far, far away from any government office of trust in the United States.
-PJ