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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Mon Aug 29, 2022, 09:13 PM Aug 2022

Will Hurd, former CIA, former Rep R-TX, former Beto drive to DC companion

on CNN now. Talking about the other side, talking about the intelligence side on CNN. How people risk their lives to gather intelligence. And how they are now thinking jeez.. this info could be left open in a hotel somewhere?

He said that instead of whining, trump should be helping ID every location TS docs were at and who could have had access!!

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Will Hurd, former CIA, former Rep R-TX, former Beto drive to DC companion (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 OP

Hurd should campaign for Beto LeftInTX Aug 2022 #1

And also a whole bunch of "good ole boys" unlike Will:) Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 #2

"former Beto drive to DC companion" huh? JanMichael Aug 2022 #3

Thanks to a blizzard. MrsCoffee Aug 2022 #4

They drove from San Antonio to D.C. in 2017 in a rental car dalton99a Aug 2022 #5

Their road trip. It springboarded Beto into the spotlight. LeftInTX Aug 2022 #6

+1 Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 #7

Ok, you seem suspect... Expound please Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 #8

It just didn't read right to me. Like word salad. JanMichael Aug 2022 #9

Thank you for telling me. I definitely need to work on my sentence structuring ! Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 #10

I do it too sometimes. We try to cram a ton of info in and... JanMichael Aug 2022 #11

Hurd is not our friend. hamsterjill Aug 2022 #12

Have the syndrome that anyone who has a brain and who Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2022 #13

LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)

1. Hurd should campaign for Beto

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2022, 11:06 PM

Aug 2022

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

2. And also a whole bunch of "good ole boys" unlike Will:)

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:21 AM

Aug 2022

JanMichael

(25,725 posts)

3. "former Beto drive to DC companion" huh?

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:27 AM

Aug 2022

MrsCoffee

(5,825 posts)

4. Thanks to a blizzard.

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:32 AM

Aug 2022

dalton99a

(95,290 posts)

5. They drove from San Antonio to D.C. in 2017 in a rental car

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:42 AM

Aug 2022

LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)

6. Their road trip. It springboarded Beto into the spotlight.

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 03:14 PM

Aug 2022

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/17/texas-el-paso-congressmen-beto-orourke-hurd-award-bipartisan-road-trip-civility-allegheny-college/791328002/

&ab_channel=RollCall

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

7. +1

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 09:49 PM

Aug 2022

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

8. Ok, you seem suspect... Expound please

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 09:50 PM

Aug 2022

JanMichael

(25,725 posts)

9. It just didn't read right to me. Like word salad.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #8)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:28 PM

Aug 2022

Idk maybe a comma or something?

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

10. Thank you for telling me. I definitely need to work on my sentence structuring !

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #9)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:33 PM

Aug 2022

JanMichael

(25,725 posts)

11. I do it too sometimes. We try to cram a ton of info in and...

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #10)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:42 PM

Aug 2022

... it reads right to the author but not to a fresh view. Like I had no idea why an ex cia wizard would drive with Beto anywhere and also had no idea that there had been a publicized drive to DC by Beto. Or that said ex cia guy was riding shotgun to DC with Beto. No context for me.

hamsterjill

(17,759 posts)

12. Hurd is not our friend.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:43 PM

Aug 2022

Don’t forget that he’s a confirmed Republican. He ventures out on a limb occasionally away from the core, but just like Susan Collins, when the chips are down, he falls right back in line.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

13. Have the syndrome that anyone who has a brain and who

Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #12)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 11:07 PM

Aug 2022

excoriates trump is OK sort out differences later down the road

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