No on Beto

I know he's charismatic and attractive, but after reading up on Beto, I've decided I won't be voting for him in the primaries. Not often mentioned in the puff pieces about him or in his own rambling monologues are the facts that he's a millionaire (Despite everyman image, Beto O'Rourke twice as wealthy as Ted Cruz) and a conservative (Beto O'Rourke, friend of the fossil fuel industry, is no climate hero). I don't think we need another one of those as president.

From The New York Times ...

Beto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.

At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso. To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio’s River Walk.

Representative Beto O’Rourke, one of hundreds attending, wasn’t exactly a disinterested party.

Not only had he married the investor’s daughter, but as a member of City Council, he represented the targeted area, including a historic Mexican-American neighborhood.

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Mr. O’Rourke was perceived by many as siding with the moneyed elite against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even the Jesuit priests who ministered to the immigrant community at Sacred Heart Church.

“Mr. O’Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhoods,” said David Dorado Romo, a local historian who added that the episode had resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.

Barrio residents feared that they would lose their homes through eminent domain, and a city-funded branding study suggested that the residents of El Paso were perceived as “dirty” and “lazy.’’ Among some constituents, the hurt feelings have lingered ...

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