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Beto O'Rourke is an American politician and businessman currently serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, a position he has held since January 2021. He previously served as a U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. O'Rourke is known for his progressive policies, focusing on issues such as healthcare, education, and gun control. He gained national attention during his 2018 Senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, where he emphasized grassroots fundraising and mobilizing young voters.
I`m so proud of the people of Texas who forced Greg Abbott back down and offered this ridiculous proposal of these unnecessary inspections that cost the Texas economy $470 million a day was in the words of our statewide elected Republican…
It`s going to increase prices at our grocery stores even higher, and it`s worsening a supply chain problem that we already had, and this didn`t have to happen. It`s a decision of one man and one man alone, Greg Abbott.
This is how we are going to help win the voters we need to win this in November.
The people of Texas -- Democrats, Republicans alike, this transcended partisanship, forced the governor finally to back off and to admit defeat.
No one is doing more to hurt our competitiveness and our business prospects and the ability to ensure that we have great jobs in Texas than Greg Abbott.
This is Greg Abbott`s Texas, and it is coming to the rest of America, unless we stop him and defeat him in November.
This guy cannot keep the lights on. He cannot keep the economy going. He cannot keep us safe. He`s very bad for Texas, bad for the country.
This is Greg Abbott`s Texas, and it is coming to the rest of America, unless we stop him and defeat him in November.
You better believe, in the Rio Grande Valley, in South Texas, in Laredo, every single person in those communities, because their economy depends on cross-border trade, knows what Greg Abbott has done. He`s killing their businesses right…
This was a purely political stunt that has done deep damage not just to the Texas economy, but to the national economy.
There`s only one person that this helped, and that was Greg Abbott politically in the short term on one cable network.
This guy cannot keep the lights on. He cannot keep the economy going. He cannot keep us safe. He`s very bad for Texas, bad for the country.
These trucks that Greg Abbott has blockaded from coming in the United States are carrying parts. They`re destined for the factory floor in San Antonio where we build Toyota Tundra and Tacoma, to factories in Ohio and Michigan and other…
I actually feel really good about things here in the state of Texas, Texas stepping up to fix our problems and to make sure that we overcome these challenges, and win this for the people of Texas, and give them the impact for the people in…
I think the people of Texas and really the people of this country understand whether it`s the chaos that Greg Abbott is creating on the border, or this attack on democracy, making it harder to vote and register in Texas than it isn`t any…
We are going to make sure that we fire Greg Abbott, and change the state for the better.
I wish that the Department of Justice would intervene on voting fights right now. I wish the Supreme Court would do the right thing on the woman`s right to choose.
One thing is that the person we are running against, Greg Abbott owns everything that has happened in the state of Texas. The power grid failure, it was his fault, that killed hundreds of our fellow Texans, and raised every single person`s…
Whatever they spend, and I’ve seen estimates that it’s one to three percent of their operating costs for these gas supply companies, it’s a hell of a lot less expensive than losing a life or more than 700 lives, or the more than $100…
Chris, this is the energy capital of the world. And you have far worse weather in other parts of America. You don`t see these kinds of outages. You don`t see this many millions losing power. And you certainly don`t see Americans freezing…
If she is an 18-year-old young woman was strong enough to face up to an all-white higher education system and defeat it, then the young people of Texas are strong enough to learn her story today.
It’s the Abbott tax in Texas, 20 to 50 bucks a month per utility payer, whether you live in an apartment or a home across the state of Texas. And not just this month, and not just for this year, but for the next 20 years to pay back the…
What we do know is what’s taking place is exactly what was predicted by opponents of this voter suppression bill.
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