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Beto O’Rourke Decides Not to Run for Senate |
2019-12-17 |
[KLIF] Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Betois a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... isn’t running for Senate again, and Democrats who have unusually high hopes for Texas in 2020 are facing an unsettled landscape. There’s no clear frontrunner among a dozen Democrats challenging Republican incumbent John Cornyn. None have raised big money and most candidates remain widely unknown. O’Rourke narrowly lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year and his presidential bid flamed out in November. Democrats urged the former El Paso congressman to run again for Senate, but the deadline to get on the 2020 ballot in Texas came and went this week. |
Posted by:Fred |
#12 Or as the help calls him, Bobby. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-17 16:40 |
#11 Yes BP, his name is Robert |
Posted by: warthogswife 2019-12-17 11:34 |
#10 Maybe a more accurate headline would have been, "O'Rourke Decides not to Decide to Run for Senate" |
Posted by: Bobby 2019-12-17 10:05 |
#9 the deadline to get on the 2020 ballot in Texas came and went this week |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-17 09:26 |
#8 He'll change his mind after a few weeks because, like Hillary!, sooo many people (are alleged to) have 'urged' him to run again. Plus it will keep his name in the spotlight, for whatever fleeting, redeeming value it has to the fake Mexican. |
Posted by: Raj 2019-12-17 08:36 |
#7 Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance? Maybe the wife or her parents said no more funding for his vanity project. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-17 08:17 |
#6 Such a public loss. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-17 07:30 |
#5 Beto can now devote himself to full time Furry Skateboarding. |
Posted by: Elmereger Clavins7805 2019-12-17 07:18 |
#4 Too bad, could have used the laughs... |
Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-17 07:16 |
#3 The Micksican |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-17 07:10 |
#2 Should auto update Beto O'Rouke to Robert O'Rourke, the irish surnamed who identifies as mexican |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-12-17 07:04 |
#1 maybe he's planning on becoming an Instagram star? Does he still have his skateboard? Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance? |
Posted by: Lex 2019-12-17 00:26 |