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Is Beto O'Rourke really the kind of person we want in the White House? If you found out the facts below about someone else, would you hire them? Would you want your daughter to date them, much less marry them? Consider these facts about him:
* As a teenager, O'Rourke was a member of the computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow. The group "is notorious for releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running Microsoft’s Windows." O'Rourke has admitted that he stole long-distance phone service during his teen years in order to use his dial-up modem.
* O'Rourke wrote numerous poems and other texts for Cult of the Dead Cow. One piece O'Rourke authored during this period referred to "scene sluts" who form relationships with members of bands. Another is written "from the perspective of a narrator who confronts a feeling of boredom and aimlessness by going on a killing spree, including hitting children with a car." Would you let your daughter date someone whose mind had produced such violent, sick garbage?
By the way, this damaging information about O'Rourke did not come to light until after O'Rourke lost the Texas U.S. Senate race to Ted Cruz. A Reuters reporter discovered the information but sat on it until after the election. How's that for journalistic integrity?!
* On May 19, 1995, O'Rourke and his friends jumped over a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) physical plant, and were arrested by the UTEP police for burglary. He was held in jail overnight and posted bail the following day. He was initially charged with burglary, but prosecutors dropped the case against O'Rourke and his friends in February 1996 when UTEP declined to pursue the charges. The police report indicates that when police arrived O'Rourke attempted to flee from the scene.
* O'Rourke was arrested for driving while intoxicated on September 27, 1998, at 3:00 a.m. on Interstate 10 in Anthony, Texas. The charges were dismissed in October 1999 after he completed a court-recommended DWI program.
* During a TV debate in September 2018, O'Rourke was asked by the moderator about a statement by a motorist in the police report that said O'Rourke tried to leave the scene of the accident. O'Rourke denied that he had attempted to leave the scene. He claimed that the police report was in error and that the passenger in his vehicle supported his version of the events (gee, what a surprise, since otherwise that passenger could be charged as an accessory to a crime). The officer who wrote the report and the officer's supervisor stand by the report.
* While serving on the El Paso city council, O'Rourke married the daughter of real estate mogul William Sanders, and then proceeded to support his new father-in-law and business partner Sanders' plan to impose eminent domain to convert a depressed area of El Paso into a business district. The initiative faced opposition from small businesses and Chicano activists who did not want some parts of the historic El Segundo Barrio neighborhood to be gentrified. This opposition managed to block part of the plan.
* As a Representative in the U.S. House, O'Rourke was one of only eight members of the House to vote against funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, and he was one of only a handful of members who boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress.
* In 2014, O'Rourke opposed Obama's deferred action policy that used an executive order, i.e., DACA, to bypass Congress in order to spare approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. He said, "the motive is noble, but the means are really hard to stomach." The motive was "noble"? It's "noble" to ignore the law and refuse to deport people who have entered our country illegally? Anyway, O'Rourke has since flip-flopped and declared that DACA was the right thing to do.
* Earlier this year, O'Rourke joined the far left in calling Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist."
* In February of this year, O'Rourke announced that he would "absolutely" take down the border wall in El Paso, even though Customs and Border Patrol agents have said the wall has made their job easier.
* A few weeks ago, after O'Rourke released his tax returns, it came to light that O'Rourke and his wife gave just 0.3% of their $366,455 income to charity in 2017, i.e., they gave one-third of 1%. In 2016, they gave only 0.2% of their income to charity, or only two-tenths of 1%. When asked about his stingy giving at a campaign event, O'Rourke actually said that his campaign appearances were a form of charitable giving! Even some liberals mocked that claim.
* After radical Muslim Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, described 9/11 as "some people did something" while speaking to the pro-Hamas group CAIR, O'Rourke actually defended Omar and repeated his charge that Israel's prime minister is a racist.
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* As a teenager, O'Rourke was a member of the computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow. The group "is notorious for releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running Microsoft’s Windows." O'Rourke has admitted that he stole long-distance phone service during his teen years in order to use his dial-up modem.
* O'Rourke wrote numerous poems and other texts for Cult of the Dead Cow. One piece O'Rourke authored during this period referred to "scene sluts" who form relationships with members of bands. Another is written "from the perspective of a narrator who confronts a feeling of boredom and aimlessness by going on a killing spree, including hitting children with a car." Would you let your daughter date someone whose mind had produced such violent, sick garbage?
By the way, this damaging information about O'Rourke did not come to light until after O'Rourke lost the Texas U.S. Senate race to Ted Cruz. A Reuters reporter discovered the information but sat on it until after the election. How's that for journalistic integrity?!
* On May 19, 1995, O'Rourke and his friends jumped over a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) physical plant, and were arrested by the UTEP police for burglary. He was held in jail overnight and posted bail the following day. He was initially charged with burglary, but prosecutors dropped the case against O'Rourke and his friends in February 1996 when UTEP declined to pursue the charges. The police report indicates that when police arrived O'Rourke attempted to flee from the scene.
* O'Rourke was arrested for driving while intoxicated on September 27, 1998, at 3:00 a.m. on Interstate 10 in Anthony, Texas. The charges were dismissed in October 1999 after he completed a court-recommended DWI program.
* During a TV debate in September 2018, O'Rourke was asked by the moderator about a statement by a motorist in the police report that said O'Rourke tried to leave the scene of the accident. O'Rourke denied that he had attempted to leave the scene. He claimed that the police report was in error and that the passenger in his vehicle supported his version of the events (gee, what a surprise, since otherwise that passenger could be charged as an accessory to a crime). The officer who wrote the report and the officer's supervisor stand by the report.
* While serving on the El Paso city council, O'Rourke married the daughter of real estate mogul William Sanders, and then proceeded to support his new father-in-law and business partner Sanders' plan to impose eminent domain to convert a depressed area of El Paso into a business district. The initiative faced opposition from small businesses and Chicano activists who did not want some parts of the historic El Segundo Barrio neighborhood to be gentrified. This opposition managed to block part of the plan.
* As a Representative in the U.S. House, O'Rourke was one of only eight members of the House to vote against funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, and he was one of only a handful of members who boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress.
* In 2014, O'Rourke opposed Obama's deferred action policy that used an executive order, i.e., DACA, to bypass Congress in order to spare approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. He said, "the motive is noble, but the means are really hard to stomach." The motive was "noble"? It's "noble" to ignore the law and refuse to deport people who have entered our country illegally? Anyway, O'Rourke has since flip-flopped and declared that DACA was the right thing to do.
* Earlier this year, O'Rourke joined the far left in calling Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist."
* In February of this year, O'Rourke announced that he would "absolutely" take down the border wall in El Paso, even though Customs and Border Patrol agents have said the wall has made their job easier.
* A few weeks ago, after O'Rourke released his tax returns, it came to light that O'Rourke and his wife gave just 0.3% of their $366,455 income to charity in 2017, i.e., they gave one-third of 1%. In 2016, they gave only 0.2% of their income to charity, or only two-tenths of 1%. When asked about his stingy giving at a campaign event, O'Rourke actually said that his campaign appearances were a form of charitable giving! Even some liberals mocked that claim.
* After radical Muslim Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, described 9/11 as "some people did something" while speaking to the pro-Hamas group CAIR, O'Rourke actually defended Omar and repeated his charge that Israel's prime minister is a racist.
Beto O'Rourke - Wikipedia
BETO O'ROURKE | Fox News
Beto O'Rourke thinks his "immeasurable" public service was worth a lot more than just giving to charity
Beto O'Rourke: I Would "Absolutely Take The Wall Down" In El Paso
Reuters reporter takes heat for sitting on Beto O’Rourke hacker story until after Senate race against Cruz
Brett Kavanaugh vs. Beto O'Rourke's Past -- Media Treatment Very Different | National Review
