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pnwmom

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1. She should return money from Democrats because they have business partners who are Republicans?
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 01:09 AM
Jul 2019

Beto O'Rourke has taken money from people who also supported Republicans in Texas. What's the difference?

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/03/15/beto-orourke-drew-donations-pro-gop-political-establishment/

“We shared a common goal,” said Ted Houghton, a local financial adviser and longtime O’Rourke donor who raised money for former Texas governor Rick Perry, a Republican, and helped steer millions in state transportation funding to the city. “The common goal was we needed to move El Paso in a different direction.”

O’Rourke, who emerged in 2018 as a national Democratic sensation in his narrow loss to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, launched his campaign for president Thursday promising a new era of unity as he campaigned through small towns in eastern Iowa. The Iowa caucuses in early February will kick off the 2020 primary season.

In contrast to the aspirational image he has fostered in recent years, however, O’Rourke’s political career traced a more traditional path for a Texas politician — winning support from a typically pro-GOP business establishment interested in swaying public policy. Born into one politically potent family and married into another, he benefited repeatedly from his relationships with El Paso’s most powerful residents, including several nationally known Republican moneymen.

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