Police Remove O’Rourke From Presser After He Confronted Abbott

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who is running for Texas governor, was just removed from a press conference in Texas for protesting and confronting Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on gun laws a day after the tragic shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1416633

Tsk, Tsk, Beto there are wrong ways to protest and there are the right ones… like these guys…

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More of this please.

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Yea Beto!


OT It’s funny to me that people are pointing out that guns aren’t allowed at the NRA convention, supposedly because Mr. Death Cult mit der Bone Spurs is speaking.

The truth is firearms are banned from all NRA conventions, as well as from its corporate deathquarters. Just sayin’.

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And now this…the punk posted a warning on Facebook right before he started to kill.

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What is Rafael doing there? I thought he didn’t want to politicize things.

Oh, and he looked like an idiot.

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While Beto’s doing this makes me feel good, I don’t know what translates into votes. Take translation to votes over feeling good. Our side has not been good on that score. Demonstrating in front of Kavanagh’s and Collins’ house feels good - but it cost us votes. Carville has been on target about this.

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Cue the “Margaret Dumont Detachment of Decorum Police” demanding that Beto apologize – any moment now.

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Seems the Texas governor and his cronies are more outraged about being interrupted than about mass murder of elementary school children

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Panel of idiots gets hot and bothered by a decent man speaking a simple truth. God almighty I hate the Republican Party. Sick lying sanctimonious bastards.

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This is how you do it. In their face and publicly. More of this please Beto.

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And you know this, how?

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Good for Beto. It’s a combination of knowing what he’s doing and having had enough.

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Seems that way because it’s true

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Do as we say not as we do…

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Better to go down swinging then. Die on your feet rather than live on your knees.

If pressed for an apology, I hope he literally says “Fuck You.”

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He wasn’t going to win but i guess he wants to prove it now.

Seems to me doing nothing cost us more votes.

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Yes! It is way past time for Democrats to get up on our hind legs and deliver verbal blows to these fuckers every damn day.

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Well, there you have it. Beto knows that the press craves controversy. I’d say he was successful.

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