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(111,841 posts)
Tue May 21, 2019, 08:14 AM May 2019

O'Rourke looks to connect flooding to climate change

DAVENPORT -- Jimmy Feeney raised his hand and asked question. “I’m a first-time voter, and I’m a little overwhelmed. What makes Beto O’Rourke different?”

Feeney, a junior at Pleasant Valley High School, asked his question before more than 230 strangers, in a private room at the River Music Experience on Monday night.

But the most important stranger in attendance was the one on stage: Beto O’Rourke himself.

O’Rourke, the 46-year-old former congressman from El Paso, Texas, stopped in Davenport on Monday as part of his campaign to be Democratic nominee for president.

Read more: https://qctimes.com/news/local/o-rourke-looks-to-connect-flooding-to-climate-change/article_20e3cb2e-c14a-52e4-95d5-a0a47f2e9d79.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1
(Quad City Times)

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