Texas Senate race. Calling all Texans.
Submitted by Nastarana on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 11:06am
What can you tell us about this Beto O'Rourke character?
He does have a pretty substantial issues page. No robust non-intervention statement like I would like to see, but at least a nod in that direction.
He seems to be something of what I think southerners call a rascal, as is GWB, which, politics not being beanbags, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Does he have any chance of winning?
Is this a runup effort preparatory to running for governor in some later election? Is he perhaps angling for a cabinet position in the next Dem administration?
Please, Texans. This enquiring mind wants to know.
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Here in Flawer'Duh, we're stuck with Gwen Graham.
It'll probably come down to her and corporate/real estate cocksucker Adam Putnam. This, on top of Rick Scott running for Porky Dem Bill Nelson's senate seat. We're fucked no matter who we vote for.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
My condolences.
Mary Bennett
The Torah is the first five books of the Christian and Jewish
Bible.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
I am afraid I had it confused with
If the word refers to what I thought was called the Pentateuch, is it not true that Moslems also consider the OT to be sacred scripture although (for them) inferior to the Koran? So, Schemer's statement not only makes no sense, it could also be considered an insult.
Mary Bennett
Capitalist appropriation.
What most people call 'multiculturalism' or worse, 'cultural marxism' is just those at the top of the capitalist shit heap turning anything and everything into objects of capitulation to capitalism itself.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Gwen Graham
We in Florida are very screwed. I was hoping John Morgan would run for Governor just to shake things up.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
No big fan of central Florida conservative Bill Nelson
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I tend to start with wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke
and finish too why not. Meet the New Democrat
Beto Rourke Caucus memberships
I don't live in Tejas, just piling on from the wiki.Total of one 'memberships' he belongs to, the big one:
the obummers
Nice work if you can get it.
Finance
Insurance
Real
Estate
north south east west
feel it burn
I checked wiki also
I was hoping for more detail. It looks like he is not going away anytime soon.
Mary Bennett
Sorry to be replying so late.
Wiki and his own website probably contain as much information as any voter knows, but, of course, you could google and see what that yields. For me, the fact that he is a member of the New Democrat Coalition would be all I needed to know. ymmv
from the wikipedia article:
In my humble opinion this makes him suspect. Not condemned necessarily, but suspect.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
O thought so, to.
Mary Bennett
Democrats were coerced to endorse Hillary. I began to suspect
that relatively early on. It was confirmed in a facebook post by a New Hampshire state senator who was serving as Sanders' NH campaign chair. He was one of the first Democratic endorsers of Sanders I'd heard of, so I (and others like me) went to his facebook page to say thanks. Some asked him questions, including whether Democrats were being coerced to endorse Hillary. When he posted answering the questions, he said they were. That he even had the courage to answer that question impressed me. And, of course, Sanders did win NH handily. (-:
For me, membership in the New Democrat Coalition is the tell.
One of my friends has
friends and family in TX and she's been following Beto a little. She received some petition or fundraising thing about him from TOP and immediately asked me if that means he's tainted. I also read the wiki as Henry suggested and let her know what I found there. He's better than Machine Gun Cruz in my opinion but he's probably not a real lefty either. As for TOP I think we all know they'll jump on a bandwagon for even a "progressive" Democrat if they feel that person might actually win. Or they can get money out of it.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
I wish TOP had been looking for winners
Does your friend know anything about him besides the wiki information?
Mary Bennett