Beto in it

[Honeycombe8]

31. Here's his voting record. A cursory review seems that his votes are great.

Last edited Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:39 AM - Edit history (3)

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/78533/beto-orourke/?p=1#.XIpLyyhKjIU

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/house/

Offhand, I saw that he voted to protect wolves from being removed from endangered list, protected pro-choice, pro-environment. The couple of things I checked on that sound like a bill to "protect" the ACA, that he voted against, actually wanted to repeal a board requirement that they conduct reviews in public so that they could make decisions in private, and allowed the board to reach their hands into Medicare and actually change Medicare spending. His vote sounds appropriate.

The article also makes a deal out of him having been a member of the New Democrat Coalition. I looked at that and immediately saw that Adam Schiff is a member of that group. https://newdemocratcoalition-himes.house.gov/members

I noticed that NARAL Pro-Choice, Planned Parenthood, Alliance for Retired Americans, the Sierra Club, and a group called Demand Universal Health Care have endorsed him. But I didn't search long for that. https://votesmart.org/interest-groups#.XIpRSChKjIX

Looks pretty good to me, so far. Hits my big issues: protection of Medicare & Social Security, environment, wildlife, pro-choice, health care.

One negative thing I ran across was that when Rep Tim Ryan was going to challenge Pelosi for Speaker, O'Rourke backed Tim Ryan. O'Rourke said he believed in term limits, and it was time for a change. I don't like that.