RATs now need a ride back.
Posted on 08/08/2025 8:14:54 PM PDT by Libloather
A Texas judge ruled Friday against Beto O’Rourke and his nonprofit in a case brought by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of illegally raising funds to support Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to block GOP redistricting legislation.
Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey handed down a temporary restraining order Friday evening against O'Rourke, a former congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, and his group, Powered by People, over alleged "unlawful fundraising practices" tied to efforts to support Texas Democrats who fled the state — including funding air travel, lodging, logistics and daily fines.
"Defendants have and will continue to engage in unlawful fundraising practices and utilization of political funds in a manner that either directly violates or causes Texas Democratic Legislators to violate [the law]," Fahey wrote in her Friday evening ruling. "Consumer have and continue to suffer irreparable harm through these unlawful acts because they are making political contributions that are being used to fund personal expenses and violate state law."
Fahey's order bars O'Rourke or his group from continuing to fundraise or provide financial support to the fleeing Texas Democrats. The ruling came only hours after Paxton's office filed a petition for a temporary restraining order against O'Rourke.
Fahey is a Republican, and she was appointed by GOP Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott in 2019.
In response to the ruling, O'Rourke put out a statement arguing that Paxton is trying to shut down his nonprofit "because our volunteers fight for voting rights and free elections," which he called "the kind of work that threatens the hold that Paxton, Trump, and Abbott have on power in Texas."
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RATs now need a ride back.
Fantastic, however, with all of the responses by Democrats, it is obvious they want a conflict and think that the other side does not have the will to fight and win such a conflict. Self-delusion is the word for it.
Stupid rich woman suffers a grifter idiot husband. Why?
Party of ‘crazies’: Dems comply with outrageous redistricting stunts due to primary threats, state rep says
“If they were to come back, they would lose in a primary to someone even more socialistic than they are,” Cain told Fox News Digital in a Thursday Zoom interview. “So yeah, they’re actually there out of fear, not out of fear of the Republican legislation, but out of fear of their own people. And so they’ll continue to sit out of state at their own detriment, all because of the fear of being primaried by someone even crazier than they are.”
Why would Beto, or any other democRAT, care or follow what some Judge says. There are Leftist Federal Judges who basically flip the bird to the Supreme Court Justices.
Rules, regulations, laws and statutes are for “others.”
As long as there is one person on the planet that voices disagreement with the Left, they will work to grab more power. Steal elections, fund hooded rioters, promote direct action against police, count illegal trespassing rapists in the Census; whatever it takes.
Pay for it themselves?
RE: The runaway Dems have to have a ride back....nowhere to go now....
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
“The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.”
But finally....
Here I was at the end of America—no more land—and now there was nowhere to go but back.
Another quote:
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
—Jack Kerouac.
A little lawfare is good. Feed the Dims the same crap we’ve been served the last eighr years.
It’s not lawfare when the opposition is blatantly breaking the law and the guy enforcing the law is a real lawyer, the long standing AG of a state
bttt
Beto?? Idiot
Like John ? Kerry, the only smart thing he did in life is marry into a rich wife’s family.
Soros crowd?
We don’t want you to block illegal funding judge
We want you to enforce the criminal penalties and throw their asses in jail
The citizens are sick and tired of getting the get out of jail passes regular citizens don’t get
citizens are sick and tired of politicians getting the get out of jail passes regular citizens don’t get
Indict and charge and prosecute and sentence them.
Abbott is VACATING THEIR SEATS!
Democrats ‘forfeited their seats’: Abbott blasts lawmakers who fled Texas amid redistricting
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/abbott-threat-democratic-lawmakers-redistricting-00491975
I thought it was GEORGE SOROS’s money!!
Abbott is VACATING THEIR SEATS!
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No he isn’t/ hasn’t.
This is what he did
.” Abbott doubled down on his promise to expel”
He “ promised”
He didn’t actually
DO
what he “ promised”
and has the ability to do.
. “I believe they have forfeited their seats...”
He “ believes “ ?
HE has the authority to vacate their seats
instead he opines they voluntarily quit ?
Dems don’t quit ever.
He’s done nothing but bloviate like a stuck rino.
I’m with you. Beto paid for the flight which is a direct violation of state law. Maybe this is just a first step to pressure the scurrying rats. Paxton does have to follow up with criminal charges.
I’m sure Beto, in his sophomoric mind, thinks this will boost his street cred in his next race- senate again- but it only highlights his irresponsibility.
EC
It amounts to the same thing
All of these things take time. It’s been a week. I would expect that Paxton and his staff are probably going through case law to set all of this in motion. All politicians talk first and may or may not act later depending on public opinion.
Give it another week or two. They already caught Beto funding them. Who else will be caught up in the net?
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