[Spectator USA] Young Beto O’Rourke casts himself as the ’anti-Trump’. But his father-in-law, it turns out, is a billionaire property developer with a contentious relationship with non-white residents ‐ not unlike the President. Beto’s more the proto-Jared Kushner.The New York Times today revealed the highly interesting news that friend-of-the-little-guy Beto married well. Very well. His wife is not only the daughter of William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate, Cockburn can reveal she is the only daughter. Sanders’s portfolio is valued at about $20 billion.
Nothing wrong with that, of course, but something is amiss when an endless stream of laudatory profiles fails to mention it. ’Stop the Press Before It Profiles Beto O’Rourke Again,’ came the muffled cry of Politico’s Jack Shafer a couple of weeks ago, from beneath a deluge of glowing cuttings about the Texas congressman. Having a profile of the boyishly handsome skateboarder standing against Sen. Ted Cruz is as key an ingredient to a left-leaning media site as an Instagram page or a round of cuts when your staff try to unionise.
A Yahoo profile of O’Rourke described how he ’married Amy Sanders, a charter school administrator,’ and served on the City Council ’championing downtown redevelopment.’ But the reporter didn’t bother to look into who Sanders’s father was.