Here are Beto's comments

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Link to tweet

[lapfog_1]

1. can't hear what Beto said

[gldstwmn]

3. This audio is a little better:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=uT4_fx6JnsW8AwwWgHMSGQ

[KewlKat]

8. Who was the guy with the walker...he's the one I think called him an SOB

[gldstwmn]

12. I don't know who that is.

[PunkinPi]

21. Per Twitter, he's the mayor of Uvalde, Don McLaughlin. nt

[hamsterjill]

42. Yep. The far ass mayor.

He’s getting his ass handed to him on his Facebook page! Of course many of the local rednecks are defending him.

[KS Toronado]

25. They told Beto "You have no rights"

So, according to Rs "Shut up & do as you're told"?

[MagickMuffin]

2. "You're outta line, how dare you make this a political event"

Excuse me every last one of you on that stage have made gun violence a political disaster!

But please proceed to make your faux outrage, your thoughts and preyers, and GO AHEAD AND ATTEND THIS WEEKEND NRA RALLY!


AND OPEN YOUR POCKETS, BRIEFCASES, PAPERBAGS FOR ALL THE CASH YOU CAN HOLD.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Beto speaks to the press

Link to tweet

[Scrivener7]

6. OMG. I love him.

[KewlKat]

7. Thanks for the video we can hear him speak...

[agingdem]

9. Perfect..

an 18 year old walks into a gun shop and walks out with not one but two military grade rifles..why?...because Greg Abbott made it ok..because the 2nd amendment spewing assholes that voted for Greg Abbott made it ok...Beto was wrong..this isn't on us..this in on THEM

[panader0]

22. "hunting rifles"?

[Baitball Blogger]

13. +1

[lapfog_1]

17. Congressman Mark Richardson of the Congressional Black Caucus (fictional)

"with a 3 day check to see if you are crazy, as if wanting such a gun wasn't a pretty good heads up in the first place"

West Wing - Season 1 Episode 4 "Five votes down"

[dalton99a]

24. +1

[Brenda]

30. Go Beto!

More Dems need to STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT LIKE THIS!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Here is part of an email from Beto

I got this email this morning

But our thoughts and our thanks are not enough. These massacres are not natural disasters, acts of God, or random. They are totally predictable, direct consequences of the choices made by Greg Abbott and the majority of those in the Texas legislature.
The moment to stop Uvalde was right after Sandy Hook. After Santa Fe High. After El Paso. But instead, Abbott ignored the pleas of law enforcement and turned his back on our communities by making it easier to carry loaded guns in public. The moment to stop the next slaughter is right now.
There will be more Uvaldes, El Pasos, Sutherland Springs, and Santa Fes until we decide to put the lives of our kids ahead of the political careers of gun lobby politicians like Greg Abbott.
He holds the highest office in the state. He has had seven years to save lives but has chosen to make matters worse — by rejecting universal background checks, by opposing red flag laws, by signing permitless carry, and by doing nothing to protect our communities from gun violence.
The only way to change this is by winning political power so that we can protect the lives of those in our lives. We win in Texas and it becomes possible to stop this bloodshed. If we fail in this election, then the slaughter of children in Uvalde becomes our future.

[bdamomma]

48. that AR 15

shredded those children, let those bastards like Abbott and his posse see them in their coffins. Bastards.

[walkingman]

5. Abbott, Patrick, and Cruz are all degenerates and time for them to be rebuked by Texas voters.

[Dirty Socialist]

10. Beto LOST that argument

I could bareley hear him. The GOP pigs effectively shouted him down, as usual.

[jcgoldie]

14. Cable news cut away from abbotts presser to the pkg lot

And covered Betos comments. He didnt lose anything quite the contrary.

[agingdem]

16. they shouted him down but he

achieved what he came for..he confronted them, called them on their bogus hearts and mind crap, and when escorted out he he spoke to the press and broke it down to the ground..an 18 year old walks into a gun shop and buys a hunting rifle..what the hell did you think he was going to do with it?..

[lapfog_1]

19. not a hunting rifle... it is for the military... to kill people

this is a hunting rifle

[agingdem]

20. my mistake..

[Tommymac]

39. Fuck that noise. The GQP'ers showed their true colors by their language and bearing

Old Evil Southern Texas Authoritarian Rednecks.

They showed their asses to the world big time - and proved every negative stereotype about them. They ain't changed one bit since the 1960's - George Wallace racists' all.

Also not a lick of compassion to be heard - they just proved their little hearing was all about crocodile tears.

Beto WON this round.
Beto WON this round.
Beto WON this round.
Beto WON this round.
Beto WON this round.

[Torchlight]

46. Everyone is focused on O'Rourke today. So I think he won the argument.

Abbott was publicly shamed, and a nation witnessed precisely how both men respond to tragedy.

There was zero political upside for Abbott this morning.

[UTUSN]

11. K&R

[lame54]

15. I can't believe you'd come here to make a political issue...

During our obvious political grandstanding

[agingdem]

18. because this isn't the right time..show some respect...bullshit!

there is no "right time" when 19 children are murdered because Greg Abbott said it was ok for an 18 year old kid to walk into a gun shop and walk out with a military grade rifle...here's the thing..Beto's had it, we've had it..no more making nice, no more waiting our turn...

[Probatim]

23. I think Beto said a few things that most of us want to say to those bastards.

Good on him for having the courage to step up.

[Traildogbob]

27. Just heard a great comment

From Rangy Rhodes show. Beto is out of line????………..but does anyone remember the school board meetings with MAGA’s shouting? How about the shouting Bimbo monkeys at the SOTU? What about the State house were they showed up with assault rifles in camo threatening the Governor’s life. Fuck every one on that political stage photo op. We do have a mental problem. Idiotic mentally deprived fools are electing mentally sick with greed and power to do nothing for anybody except the money machines that feed them.

[agingdem]

32. yes we have a mental problem..

the screeching 2nd amendment voters and the preening like-minded callous assholes they elect...

[geardaddy]

26. Bingo.

[Mr. Evil]

28. The Party of Death

needs to be confronted all day everyday. Kudos to Beto for doing just that.

[RicROC]

31. I might guess on Tuesday more children died in Uvalde, Texas....

than the # of children who were killed yesterday in Ukraine.

At least in Ukraine the people are fighting back.

[Mr. Evil]

33. You're probably right on the children part.

You're absolutely right on the fighting back part.

I'm seriously considering selling everything I have (what little it is) and moving to Ukraine to help them rebuild once Putin is dead and a sane person takes over the leadership of Russia. I may be 62 but, I can still drill, hammer, wire and clear debris. Sadly, instead of us leading by example and building back better, it will be Ukraine that will build back better.

[Mr.Bill]

29. There needs to be an organized effort

to make sure that Abbott never has another press conference without people standing up and doing whet Beto just did. Do to his press conferences what they have been doing at school board meetings.

[moonshinegnomie]

38. im thinking of going to the texas capitol

carrying a simple sign

Texas Republicans are child killers

[Mr.Bill]

41. Email that to every

republican elected official in Texas.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Here is part of an email from Beto

I got this email this morning

But our thoughts and our thanks are not enough. These massacres are not natural disasters, acts of God, or random. They are totally predictable, direct consequences of the choices made by Greg Abbott and the majority of those in the Texas legislature.
The moment to stop Uvalde was right after Sandy Hook. After Santa Fe High. After El Paso. But instead, Abbott ignored the pleas of law enforcement and turned his back on our communities by making it easier to carry loaded guns in public. The moment to stop the next slaughter is right now.
There will be more Uvaldes, El Pasos, Sutherland Springs, and Santa Fes until we decide to put the lives of our kids ahead of the political careers of gun lobby politicians like Greg Abbott.
He holds the highest office in the state. He has had seven years to save lives but has chosen to make matters worse — by rejecting universal background checks, by opposing red flag laws, by signing permitless carry, and by doing nothing to protect our communities from gun violence.
The only way to change this is by winning political power so that we can protect the lives of those in our lives. We win in Texas and it becomes possible to stop this bloodshed. If we fail in this election, then the slaughter of children in Uvalde becomes our future.

[Stuart G]

36. I believe that Bato Got the.......".Best of Them"

..Is it the TRUTH OR A LIE ,,THAT THEY ARE DOING...........'NOTHING".....

The rest of the show is not important...NOTHING is ....NOTHING!!!!

[kacekwl]

37. Please Texas

Elect this man. For your own good.

[DinahMoeHum]

40. "Beto O'Rourke Was Right" - Mother Jones magazine

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/05/beto-orourke-was-right/

Crashing your opponent’s press conference is, as Cruz said, a stunt. Of course it is. But so was the event O’Rourke was crashing, in which the most powerful men in the state assembled at a school auditorium to do…what, do they do, exactly?

We’re all familiar with this routine by now—the elected officials who descend on the scene in their best emergency-response earth tones to bask in their proximity to law enforcement and collectively absolve everyone with power of any responsibility. People like Abbott and Cruz and Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick—the state’s Republican attorney general and lieutenant governor—will emphasize the “tragedy” of what happened and the unpredictability of it all. There were no obvious signs, Abbott said on Wednesday, not long before O’Rourke’s interruption; law enforcement acted quickly, he said, and saved lives; the assault rifles he acquired shortly before the shootings were, of course, purchased legally.

They’ll give a few days of defensive interviews about hiring veterans to stand guard at schools.

Maybe, in a few weeks, we’ll get “Uvalde Strong” t-shirts.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Beto O'Rourke: "Somebody needs to stand up for the children of this state

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. Here are two videos of Beto's meeting with the Press after being escorted out of Abbott's event

Thank you Beto for calling attention to Greg Abbott's political event designed to cover up or divert attention from the death of 19 school children and 2 teachers

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

45. +1

[bdamomma]

47. He had every right

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Beto to say what he said. He was telling the truth. The truth just kills these bastards.

Is Beto running for any position a donation is in order.

[MustLoveBeagles]

49. K&R

I didn't think I could have any more respect for this man. I was wrong.