Beto O'Rourke steers donors to Briscoe Cain's rival over Texas rep's threat. [View all]

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — First Beto O'Rourke wants to come after his guns, prompting Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain to warn that he has an AR-15 "ready."

Now O'Rourke is going after Cain's seat in the Texas Legislature.

Late Saturday, O'Rourke urged his own supporters to pour money into the campaign of a Democrat hoping to oust Cain next year: Josh Markle, an Air Force veteran. His campaign biography says he works at a sign language interpreting agency and lives with his husband and their two dogs in Deer Park, the same Houston suburb that Cain lives in.

Markle welcomed O'Rourke's help, which he would not have expected three days earlier.

"When I win TX House District 128, it will be because I got effective help from lots of people, particularly today from Beto," he tweeted. "Beto's fundraising email this evening for our campaign has blown us away."

Texas Monthly, describing Cain as "uninformed and belligerent," put him at the top of its list of 10 worst state legislators. In June 2018, Cain was removed from the Texas Democrats' state convention in Fort Worth, where O'Rourke was the star speaker, after he and a handful of other Republicans handed out yard signs reading "This home is a gun free safe space" as a prank.



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