Meet Beto O'Rourke, The Pro-Pot Former Punk Guitarist Who Could Beat Ted Cruz And Ignite Blue Wave

[workinclasszero]

Meet Beto O'Rourke, The Pro-Pot Former Punk Guitarist Who Could Beat Ted Cruz And Ignite Blue Wave
BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 3/6/18 AT 6:10 AM

U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas is a former punk guitarist who curses like a sailor. He’s pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-pot and pro-immigration, and he’s aiming to take Ted Cruz’s Senate seat in November.

In any other year, the Democratic lawmaker would be a political footnote in deep-red Texas, where no one from his party has won statewide office in more than two decades.

But as Democrats head to the polls in their party's primary Tuesday, they are turning out in record numbers, in part to help make O'Rourke their standard-bearer—a surprising sign that Democratic enthusiasm in the Donald Trump era is sweeping even the most conservative states ahead of the midterm elections.

And, as O'Rourke likes to point out on the campaign trail, he has raised nearly three times as much money as Cruz this year, all without accepting contributions from corporations or political action committees.


http://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-texas-826727

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I am in Texas right now........

and have seen quite a few O'Rourke signs in yards.

I am being careful not to bring up politics. Though at the Alamo today, a guy dressed in period clothing doing a living history demonstration on Medical practices, did refer to the Civil War as the "War of Northern aggression".

Go figure.

[workinclasszero]

2. It sounds better than: The War to Preserve the Rape, Torture and Enslavement of Human Beings

Which is what the confederates were fighting for.

I bet he thinks he's a "patriot" too!