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  Daily Wire: Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation Wednesday into a group led by Democrat Beto O’Rourke that is bankrolling dozens of Democrats who fled the Lone Star State to block a vote on new congressional maps. Paxton said that O’Rourke’s group, Powered by People, might have violated laws on bribery, campaign finance, and abuse of office. Powered by People is funding a group of 50 state Democrats who are each facing a $500 daily fine after fleeing to Illinois, The Daily Wire previously reported . “Any Democrat coward breaking the law by taking a Beto Bribe will be held accountable,” Paxton said. “Texas cannot be bought. I look forward to thoroughly reviewing all of the documents and communications obtained throughout this investigation. These jet-setting runaways have already lost public trust by abandoning our state, and Texans deserve to know if they received illegal bribes to do it.” ... Texas should also change the law with respect to a q...

 Washington Examiner: School choice is becoming a bigger issue in Texas's gubernatorial race. After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he intends to support educational freedom during the state’s 2023 legislative session, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke claimed, “Abbott is for defunding our public schools.” O’Rourke has repeated this claim in radio and newspaper ads targeting rural Texas areas. But Texas's K-12 education spending data do not support O’Rourke’s allegation. Between 2002 and 2020, inflation-adjusted education spending in Texas increased by 16%, going from $11,473 per student to $13,346 per student. THE DEMOCRATS' UNDEMOCRATIC RHETORIC ABOUT 'SAVING DEMOCRACY' Much of this funding increase went to staffing costs, with spending on employee benefits — a Census Bureau data category that includes teacher pensions and healthcare expenses — rising by 24% per student . Capital expenditures, such as building construction and equipment, have...

  Miranda Devine @mirandadevine Stone cold liar Quote Tweet Kyle Martinsen @KyleMartinsen_ · Sep 30 Tonight, Beto O’Rourke said he “of course” doesn't support 'Defunding the Police.' In 2020, O'Rourke enthusiastically called for defunding and "completely dismantling” police departments. ROLL THE TAPE Show this thread 11:34 AM · Oct 2, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone 1,788 Retweets 114 Quote Tweets 5,298 Likes Beto O'Rourke, like other Democrats, jumped on the anti-police bandwagon after the BLM riots.  Those claims are now a liability as crime increased as a result.

 Fox News: Beto O'Rourke, who is facing off against Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in November's election, said that the rightward shift of Latino voters in recent years is partly due to a disregard for the demographic by Democrats. "Candidate Biden didn't spend a dime or day in the Rio Grande Valley or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter, once we got down in the homestretch of the general election," O'Rourke told a crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday. "You got to be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win." Despite losing the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried 38% of the Latino vote, a 13 percentage point increase over the level of support that Republican candidates received from that group in the 2018 midterm elections, according to Pew research data. O'Rourke also said that Trump offered a "very strong, compelling economic mes...

 Ed Morrissey: "Deep" thought from Adams: Send New Yorkers to campaign for Beto in Texas See, also:   Beto at rally: Stop laughing at me, "motherf****r" As a Texan, I approve of Gov. Abbott's sending illegals to New York and other liberal locations to get their attention on the border crisis they are trying to ignore. 

 Olivia Murray: Robert Francis O'Rourke, most known for his political runs resulting in defeat and as the author of  deranged and disturbing fantasies , is evidently back in the realm of relevancy — he's now a gubernatorial candidate.  In a small and crowded room, filled with masked faces and trimmed in flags embroidered with the words "East Texans for Beto," O'Rourke decried the only things that ever made education and public instruction great — objectivity and verity.   In his own words : We don't need to tell her [a teacher] what version of history she is allowed to teach in a classroom. We don't need to scare the parents of those kids. ... About something called CRT, that I've never heard of before last year. Although he plays his part in the political theater well, stumping for the betterment of education, O'Rourke's recycled philosophy is the very origin of the current academic decay — it's Howard Zinn all over again.  Zinn's  mod...

  Fox News: George Soros contributes $1 million to Beto O’Rourke’s Texas gubernatorial campaign Beto O’Rourke outraised Greg Abbott by $2.7 million, but the Texas governor enjoys large cash-on-hand advantage This makes it all the more important for Texans to vote against every Democrat on the ballot. 

  Breitbart: Poll: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Leads Democrat Beto O’Rourke by 19 Points  Democrats continue to get no traction in Texas. 

Time may have been right the first time.  His action at the Abbott press conference about the Uvalde shootings was generally panned.

 Washington Examiner: Texas   g ubernatorial candidate  Beto O'Rourke  interrupted a press conference held by Texas   Gov.  Greg Abbott , confronting the governor about gun laws in the state following the Uvalde shooting. The confrontation was brief, and O'Rourke relented after being shouted down by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin and seemingly escorted out of the auditorium. Abbott had been discussing issues related to mental health when O'Rourke interrupted. "This was totally predictable," O'Rourke could be heard saying during the encounter. "This is on you until you choose to do something." Abbott largely appeared to ignore O'Rourke, who recently secured the Democratic Party nod for governor in the November election. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hit back at O'Rourke, saying, "You're out of line and an embarrassment." But McLaughlin was the most forceful in responding to O'Rourke. "Sir, you are out of line. Please leave thi...

  Guy Benson @guypbenson Abbott campaign thrilled Quote Tweet RNC Research @RNCResearch · 19h Beto O'Rourke: "I think it's time to end Title 42. I don't think we should have ever implemented it." 7:44 PM · Apr 17, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone 210 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 1,231 Likes Most Texans including Hispanics on the border oppose the Biden opern borders policy.