
Beto O’Rourke is gonna lose.
So given the fact they can’t really cause much damage… the NYT released some dirt on this Golden Boy.
Long before he became a national liberal hero, Beto O’Rourke sided with the moneyed elite — including his investor father-in-law — against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even Jesuit priests in a redevelopment fight. @stefsaul https://t.co/3C9zS1wN7b
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 29, 2018
It doesn’t paint a great picture:
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.
Calling downtown “one piece of El Paso that was missing on the road back to greatness,” Mr. O’Rourke, now the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, voted to take the first step forward with the plan.
Over the next two years, Mr. O’Rourke would defend the plan before angry barrio residents and vote to advance it. At other times, he would abstain. Business owners who opposed the plan accused Mr. O’Rourke of a conflict, citing the involvement of his father-in-law, the billionaire developer William D. Sanders.
So he went against the will of residents and business owners to help his billionaire father-in-law.
GOT IT.
It REALLY doesn’t add up with the carefully cultivated image of “progressive” Beto. You know – the PEOPLE’S MAN!
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 says the episode resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.
Awwwkward.
PS Did you guys know Beto is married to a billionaire’s daughter? I didn’t. I have a feeling they keep that quiet for a reason…
ANYWAY – The libs are P*SSED at the NYT for DARING say TRUE THINGS about their favorite “cool dude.”
Wherein Beto gets Hillaried by the NYT.
— Mel R (@coastalelite22) October 29, 2018
Nice. Just two years almost to the day after you torpedoed Hillary’s campaign by amplifying a right wing talking point that proved to be a big fat nothing. pic.twitter.com/S5L42BJBZB
— Soros-funded Deep State operative (@ExGOPer) October 29, 2018
Oh, I almost forgot the NYT is one of the 1,324,984 reasons Hillary lost that aren’t her fault!
Genuinely disappointed in your hatchet journalism. But her emails… the timing you chose to release such an inconsequential “story” makes me sick to my stomach….
— 💖 (@Jenn2017NY) October 29, 2018
BAHAHAHA THESE PEOPLE.
You fucking scumbag. Not enough u guys sabotaged Clinton and let Trump off the hook before the last election. Now this. Where’s your article about Cruz’ utter mendacity? Fuck you.
— Arnie Roman (@arnieroman1) October 29, 2018
Clearly @nytimes got the memo that #Beto is a threat to #TedCruz so they’re all in to stop him. Not this time we are on to you #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare
— Maxine Baptiste (@brownsugar7878) October 29, 2018
I forgot the NYT was secretly helping conservatives. My bad.
Here we go. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Stop it, Dems and other logical people. Just stop it.
— Frankie 🌊🌈🌊 (@goggans_frankie) October 29, 2018
No throwing our people to the curb.
— Frankie 🌊🌈🌊 (@goggans_frankie) October 29, 2018
It’s such a disgrace! Salt in wounds. I’m appalled. WTF
— Hilary R (@whoowhooH) October 29, 2018
Seriously disappointed in you, your editors, your paper. We need you to be better and best. We really need you to be best.
— Kitten (@42Lives) October 29, 2018
“We really need you to be best.” = “We really need you not to tell people the truth about Democrats.”