BETO O’ROURKE SPEAKS IN BRENHAM MONDAY

  

Although he is not currently running for office, Beto O’Rourke stopped in Brenham Monday and spoke at the Finke Pavilion at Fireman’s Park.  While the majority of the crowd were appreciative of O’Rourke, there was a group of protesters on hand also.  They booed in response to the crowds cheers and shouted their beliefs at O’Rourke as he tried to answer questions.  This caused O’Rourke to say on several occasions that they were proving his point.
After an opening statement in which O’Rourke commented on several subjects including voter rights, he answered questions from the crowd.  Those questions covered a large number of topics including AR-15s, Voter IDs, and Law Enforcement.  He equated water rights to the power outages that occurred in February:

He blamed the problems at ERCOT on public corruption and too much money in politics.  He continued his criticism of the current state government in his comments about education:

O’Rourke represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.  He lost his bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 2018 against Ted Cruz, and was a candidate in the 2020 presidential election before suspending his race in November 2019.