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  • Beto O'Rourke: When Dems Take Power Back "We're Gonna Drive That Car Like We Stole It," And Legalize Every Immigrant

    08/10/2025 8:40:08 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 93 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 08 10 2025 | Tim Hains
    Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke called on Democrats to do more than "comprehensive immigration reform" the next time they take back the White House and Congressional majorities, at a rally on Saturday against the GOP effort to redistrict Texas congressional districts. "We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win power, we're going to drive that car like we stole it," he said at the rally in Fort Worth called "The People vs. The Power Grab." BETO O'ROURKE: Check this out. "You know, Democrats -- present company excluded -- have talked an...
  • Judge blocks Beto O'Rourke from funding Texas Dems who fled to stop GOP redistricting vote

    08/08/2025 8:14:54 PM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/08/25 | Alec Schemmel
    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...
  • REPORT: Plane That Carried Texas Democrats to Illinois Was Funded by Beto O’Rourke’s PAC (Prosecute Bribery)

    08/06/2025 5:12:46 AM PDT · by C210N · 42 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/5/2025 | Mike LaChance
    When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane. How did they afford such a thing? Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it.
  • Caption Beto O'Rourke

    04/03/2022 8:09:19 PM PDT · by PROCON · 66 replies
    April 3, 2022 | Vanity
    Beto wants to be the next Governor of Texas.
  • beto O’Rourke Apologizes For Writing Fictional Fantasies About Plowing Over Children With A Car

    03/16/2019 10:59:24 AM PDT · by rktman · 83 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 3/15/2019 | Chris White
    Beto O’Rourke apologized Friday night for writings the former Texas representative made as a teenager describing fantasies about running over children with a vehicle. “I’m mortified to read it now, incredibly embarrassed, but I have to take ownership of my words,” the Democratic presidential candidate said during a taping of the “Political Party Live” podcast in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Whatever my intention was as a teenager doesn’t matter, I have to look long and hard at my actions, at the language I have used, and I have to constantly try to do better.” His comments come after a report Friday...
  • ‘Fxxx you’! Lefties flip out after NYT spotlights inconvenient truths about Beto O’Rourke

    10/29/2018 1:24:31 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 50 replies
    twitchy.com ^ | Posted at 12:32 pm on October 29, 2018 | by Sarah D.
    With Beto O’Rourke all set to lose bigly next week, it seems even the New York Times is taking the opportunity to pour a little salt in his impending wound: Long before he became a national liberal hero, Beto O'Rourke sided with the moneyed elite — including his investor father-in-law — against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even Jesuit priests in a redevelopment fight. ⁦@stefsaul⁩ https://t.co/3C9zS1wN7b — Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 29, 2018 Ruh-roh! Also, did not know until today that Beto is a billionaire (or rather, is married to one). https://t.co/df4gWp2oTl — Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) October 29,...
  • Beto O'Rourke calls for Democrats to be 'ruthless' in pursuit of power, backs Newsom's gerrymandering proposal

    ...Beto O’Rourke called for Democrats to be "ruthless" in their pursuit of power and endorsed partisan gerrymandering. "We have to get serious. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power...
  • Beto O’Rourke: ‘Texas Could Possibly Be in Play’ for Kamala Harris

    08/12/2024 6:13:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/12/2024 | Pam Key
    Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that Vice President Kamala Harris could possibly win the state of Texas in November. Host Jen Psaki said, “I want to ask you, you’ve seen a lot of presidential candidates run. Vice President Harris and Tim Walz are clearly creating a lot of excitement out there. Do you think this is enough? Is Texas a pipe dream or should people hold their hope out for Texas in 2024 or is it going to take a little longer?”
  • Fact checkers want folks to stop calling Beto O’Rourke’s bacterial infection ‘monkeypox’

    08/31/2022 8:09:45 AM PDT · by 2harddrive · 96 replies
    AmericanWire ^ | August 30, 2022 | Tom Tillison
    Fact checkers want folks to stop calling Beto O’Rourke’s bacterial infection ‘monkeypox’ August 30, 2022 | Tom Tillison | Print Article Facebook Twitter Gettr LinkedIn Telegram Gab OMG. Sometimes, given the state of politics today in America, the abbreviation for “oh my god” is all one needs to say. Beto O’Rourke, aka Robert Francis O’Rourke, announced on Twitter over the weekend that he had fallen ill and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection, which prompted some on social media to mock the Democrat by suggesting he had contracted monkeypox. Of course, our fact-checking overlords could not allow such blasphemy against...
  • Illness interrupts O'Rourke campaign for Texas governor

    08/28/2022 3:27:35 PM PDT · by Libloather · 65 replies
    AP via MSN ^ | 8/28/22
    SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection. In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O’Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling ill Friday. Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O'Rourke said. “While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors' recommendations,” he said. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise...
  • Beto O'Rourke flip-flops again on confiscating AR-15s as polls show him trailing Texas Gov. Abbott

    02/11/2022 2:53:25 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 11, 2022 | Houston Keene
    Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke appears to have flip-flopped – again – on confiscating AR-15s, as polls show him trailing behind Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The failed senatorial and presidential contender said earlier this week that he has "no interest in taking" assault weapons from gun owners. "I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone," O’Rourke said to reporters in Tyler, Texas. "What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we’re doing right now."
  • Beto O'Rourke's Mysterious Woman: Who is the mysterious "Michelle"?

    12/02/2021 9:39:48 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/02/2021 | Ronald Kolb
    Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke recently announced his candidacy for governor of Texas against incumbent Greg Abbott after the former's failed campaigns for U.S. Senate in 2018 and president in 2020. One issue that has followed him was his arrest report of a DUI hit-and-run in 1998, released August 2018 by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express. Up until that time, he had admitted to the DUI without mentioning the accident and fleeing the scene. During a debate in September with eventual victor Ted Cruz, a moderator brought it up, and O'Rourke said, "I did not try to leave the...
  • Beto O’Rourke plans counter-rally to Trump event in Texas

    10/09/2019 5:50:34 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 56 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | October 9, 2019 | Will Weissert
    Beto O’Rourke is planning a counter-rally as President Donald Trump addresses supporters in Dallas next week — recalling the dueling events held on the Texas-Mexico border eight months ago that helped launch the former congressman’s White House bid. The Democratic presidential candidate will stage a “Rally Against Fear” the evening of Oct. 17 at The Theatre at Grand Prairie in suburban Dallas around the same time Trump is holding an event of his own at the American Airlines Center, home to the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and the NHL’s Dallas Stars. Trump says he’ll highlight the strength of the Texas economy,...
  • Beto O’Rourke says he had relative who owned slaves

    07/14/2019 9:17:59 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 46 replies
    Associated Press ^ | July 15, 2019
    Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says he was recently given documents showing that both he and his wife are descended from people who owned slaves. In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman writes that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s. He says records also showed that one ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army. …
  • O’Rourke proposes new ‘war tax’ to fund veteran health care

    06/24/2019 6:38:52 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 27 replies
    Associated Press ^ | June 24, 2019
    Democratic presidential candidate Beto (BET’-oh) O’Rourke is pledging to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and help create a federal health care fund to cover the costs of caring for those who serve in future wars by taxing those who don’t. […] The proposal pledges to improve the Veterans Affairs health care system and provide immigrant veterans a “pathway to citizenship.” …
  • O’Rourke: White Americans don’t know full story of slavery

    06/14/2019 4:40:22 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 84 replies
    Associated Press ^ | June 14, 2019 | Associated Press
    BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Beto O’Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled on Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina as he strives to make connections with the black voters who will play a dominant role in next year’s Southern presidential primaries. In the community room of a Baptist church in Beaufort, a picturesque historic enclave on the state’s southern coast, the Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman met with leaders of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, a culture of coastal slave descendants. Known as Gullah in the Carolinas and Geechee in Georgia...
  • Beto O’Rourke plans ‘reintroduction’ as 2020 buzz fizzles

    05/11/2019 9:23:40 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 45 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2019 | Will Weissert and Steve Peoples
    Beto O’Rourke barreled into the 2020 presidential race with breakneck energy and a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants campaign style that saw him leap atop tables to address overflow crowds with the organic, off-the-cuff candor that had made him a Texas sensation. But since his mid-March campaign launch, the buzz surrounding the former congressman has evaporated. Competing in a massive field of Democratic White House hopefuls, O’Rourke has sagged in the polls. He’s made few promises that resonated or produced headline-grabbing moments, instead driving around the country meeting with voters at mostly small events. In a tacit recognition that this approach isn’t working, O’Rourke...
  • O’Rourke: Trump Inciting Violence Against Omar, America Muslims

    04/14/2019 4:26:11 PM PDT · by rktman · 71 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 4/14/2019 | pam key
    While speaking on Saturday in South Carolina, 2020 presidential candidate former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) accused President Donald Trump of inciting violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) by tweeting a video including images of Sept. 11 and comments the congresswoman made about the attack. O’Rourke said, “This is an incitement to violence against Congresswoman Omar, against our fellow Americans who happen to be Muslim.” He added, “This is part and parcel of what we’ve seen from an administration that has described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.”
  • Beto O'Rourke calls Benjamin Netanyahu a racist during a campaign event in Iowa [tr]

    04/08/2019 3:03:28 AM PDT · by C19fan · 71 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 7, 2019 | Ariel Zilber
    Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is racist. The former Texas congressman made the remark during a campaign stop on Sunday in Iowa. O’Rourke was asked on Sunday if his past criticisms of Netanyahu risked driving away Israel supporters from the Democratic Party. ‘The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet, and that relationship, if it is successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist, as he warns against Arabs coming to the...
  • O’Rourke compares Trump’s immigrant rhetoric to Third Reich

    04/05/2019 7:36:02 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 71 replies
    Associated Press ^ | April 4, 2019 | Alexandra Jaffe
    … At a town hall in Iowa on Thursday, O’Rourke called out “the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals but as animals and an infestation,” in response to a question on how he would address attacks from Republicans. The former congressman from Texas says, “Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as an infestation in the Third Reich. I would not expect that in the United States of America.” …