Not that it should matter to ANYONE but here's how Beto O'Rourke got that nickname

[Roland99]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke#:~:text=Childhood%20and%20young%20adult%20years,-Robert%20Francis%20O&text=He%20is%20a%20fourth%2Dgeneration,him%20from%20his%20namesake%20grandfather.

He is a fourth-generation Irish American.[14] In his infancy, his family gave him the nickname "Beto", a common Spanish-Portuguese nickname for first names ending in "-berto", initially to distinguish him from his namesake grandfather.[

So, obviously, as an INFANT, he saw the political clout he'd gain by having a nickname that sorta kinda maybe might sound Hispanic while running for governor there one day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Exactly! Wow, he was prescient even as an infant!

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2. All the more reason to elect him over Abbott.

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3. So he has Spanish-Portuguese ancestry too?

[Roland99]

4. Would be interesting

Last job I had, I worked w/a guy who was born in Portugal, but raised most of his life in France but was living in Ireland when I knew him.

[LeftInTX]

6. He's not.. The nickname is Spanish

Beto is from El Paso

See Post #5

[LeftInTX]

5. No. He was given that nickname by his parents because his grandfather was also Robert

He is from El Paso, so this is not uncommon..

His father's family came from Ireland and settled in Kansas then moved to El Paso. His paternal grandparents were from Kansas. His paternal grandmother's name was Jasper. She was mainly Scotts-Irish from the south east US.

His mother's name is Williams. Her paternal side is mostly colonial America (British)
Her maternal side is German and Irish

I don't see any Spanish-Portuguese in his family tree.



https://postimg.cc/gallery/XZCn994

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Click links for enlarged family tree images.

[Roland99]

7. thanks!

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8. I get the El Paso angle. Right on the border and high...

Latino American influence. Good think too he's fluent in Spanish.

[LeftInTX]

9. He is. More so than Julian Castro..LOL

That's why he spoke Spanish at the debate. He wanted to catch Julian in a bluff, but Julian had brushed up on his Spanish.

And Cory Booker sounded like Stevie Wonder

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