Beto O'Rourke is back is the spotlight as Texas continues to face a statewide crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of Texans remain without power Thursday morning as millions more deal with burst pipes and other consequences of unprecedented winter weather. O'Rourke, the former 2020 Democratic presidential and 2018 Texas Senate candidate, has been making the TV rounds to call out the Republicans who've shifted the blame for the power shortages — and is organizing to check in on senior citizens throughout it all.
On Wednesday night, O'Rourke announced he and volunteers had made more than 150,000 wellness calls to seniors throughout the state. And in an interview with CNN, he called out Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who have inaccurately placed most of the blame for the power failures on Texas' renewable energy sources.
"There has been complete Republican control of the state of Texas for 20 years." Former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke dismisses Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's claim that renewable energy is responsible for power shortages during the winter storm in Texas. pic.twitter.com/vGg2LukFK5 — CNN (@CNN) February 18, 2021
O'Rourke also addressed last month's attack on the Capitol when speaking to MSNBC on Thursday morning. The U.S. needs to "hold those responsible accountable," including "the junior senator from the state of Texas, who I understand is vacationing in Cancun right now while people are literally freezing to death in the state that he was elected to represent." A GOP source confirmed to Fox News that photos of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his family boarding a plane Wednesday night "speak for themselves." Kathryn Krawczyk
sonofaresiii on February 18th, 2021 at 17:37 UTC »
To anyone out there saying Beto is just doing this as a publicity stunt,
Even if that's true, consider who you want in office more: The guy who tries to get elected by staging publicity stunts that show him publicly helping people as much as he can
or the guy who tries to get elected by lying about the cause of this crisis to play into his base's fears and narratives, then shows off how he's bailing on the problem to go on vacation
If there's a guy out there who is trying to get elected by showing you that he's trying to help people, I say elect that guy.
ositola on February 18th, 2021 at 15:44 UTC »
The interesting part is that cruz knew he would be spotted leaving texas and it would be talked about but since he's a 300 lb sentient pile of shit, he did it anyway
Edit: I'm stating he's a large piece of shit, I'm not fat shaming him.....that would require him to feel shame
TVs_Kevin on February 18th, 2021 at 15:41 UTC »
Wellness checks for seniors smacks of communism! How will the strong survive and the weak die off with socialist do-gooders running around helping people?