Beto O'Rourke
Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
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"Under Abbott, Texas leads the nation in rape offenses while the rate of arrests for rape has fallen by nearly half."
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"38,000 Texans had their license to carry denied, revoked, or suspended over the last five years because law enforcement deemed them too dangerous to carry…
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Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."
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"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."
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"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."
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"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."
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“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”
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"To be clear, I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns."
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"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."
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Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last…