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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke<br>
(Democratic nominee against Republican Ted Cruz for United States Senator for Texas, 2018)
|image=
|office=[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Texas]]' 16th congressional district ([[El Paso]]-based)
|term_start=January 3, 2013
|term_end =January 2019 (pending)
|preceded=Silvestre Reyes
|succeeded=
|office2=El Paso City Council member for District 8
|term_start2= June 1, 2005
|term_end2= June 27, 2011
|preceded2=Anthony Cobos
|succeeded=Cortney Niland
|birth_date=September 26, `1972
|birth_place=El Paso, Texas
|death_date =
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democratic]]
|spouse =Amy Hoover Sanders O'Rourke (married 2005)
|children=Three children
|alma_mater=Woodberry Forest School (Madison County, [[Virginia]])<br>
[[Columbia University]]
}}
'''Robert Francis O'Rourke,''' known as '''Beto O'Rourke''' and formerly as '''Rob O'Rourke''' (born September 26, 1972), has been since 2013 the U.S. Representative]] for [[Texas]]'s 16th congressional district, bas3ed about his native [[El Paso]]. He is the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee for the [[United States Senate]] in 2018. He faces the incumbent [[Republican Party|Republicvan]] [[Ted Cruz]] in the November 8 [[general election]].
O'Rourke was elected to the first of his three terms in Congress in November 2012. Earlier in the year he had unseated the incumbent Representative Silvestre Reyes, a fellow Democrat. Before his congressional years, the [[business]]man O'Rourke represented District 8 on the El Paso City Council.
The Irish-American O'Rourke claims that his nickname "Beto" came from childhood as a shortened name for "Roberto" in Spanish, where many of his friends are Hispanic. At [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]], at which he participated on the rowing team, he was known as "Robert" or "Rob". O'Rourke's mother is the former Meissa Martha Williams. His father was El Paso County Judge Pat Francis O'Rourke, a political associate of former Texas [[Governor]] [[Mark White]]'s whose son, Andrew White, is a candidate in the May 22 Democratic gubernatorial runoff election. The senior O'Rourke was killed in July 2001, when he was struck from behind by a vehicle while he was riding his bicycle across the state line into [[New Mexico]].<ref>Bill Lambrecht, "From border to brink of Senate run, ''San Antonio Express-News'', March 17, 2017, pp. 1, A9.</ref>
In the Republican primary held on March 6, 2018, Cruz defeated four weak intra-party opponents with 1,317,450 votes (85.3 percent). In the Democratic primary, O'Rourke received 641,337 votes (61.8 percent) over two intra-party rivals. Some 506,000 more Republicans voted in the Texas primary than did Democrats.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/mar06_325_state.htm?x=0&y=1394&id=142|title=Election Returns|date=March 6, 2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=March 9, 2018}}</ref>
The [[liberal]] O'Rourke, who unlike Cruz is not himself Hispanic, is believed to be a potentially strong opponent because of an early start to his campaign, favorable media coverage, strong fund-raising (often surpassing Cruz, and a perception that he resembles "a Kennedy," referring to the popular [[Massachusetts]] [[John F. Kennedy|family of politicians]] and has the same given names as [[Robert Kennedy|Robert Francis Kennedy]]. Already a candidate in 2017, O'Rourke traveled by car to southeastern Texas to participate in [[Hurricane Harvey]] relief operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/makes-beto-orourke-run/|title=Does Beto O'Rourke Stand a Chance Against Ted Cruz|date=January 2018|publisher=Texasmonthly.com|accessdate=March 9, 2018}}</ref>
O'Rourke has developed a friendly relationship with [[Moderate Republican]] [[Will Hurd]] of Helotes, an [[African-American]] who represents Texas' 23rd congressional district. The two rode together by car in 2017 from Texas to [[Washington, D.C.]]
O'Rourke supports [[amnesty]] for [[illegal alien]]s, [[LGBT]], [[gun control]], [[Obamacareand [[abortion]] and opposes the War on Drugs.
==References==
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[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category;Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke<br>
(Democratic nominee against Republican Ted Cruz for United States Senator for Texas, 2018)
|image=
|office=[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Texas]]' 16th congressional district ([[El Paso]]-based)
|term_start=January 3, 2013
|term_end =January 2019 (pending)
|preceded=Silvestre Reyes
|succeeded=
|office2=El Paso City Council member for District 8
|term_start2= June 1, 2005
|term_end2= June 27, 2011
|preceded2=Anthony Cobos
|succeeded=Cortney Niland
|birth_date=September 26, `1972
|birth_place=El Paso, Texas
|death_date =
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democratic]]
|spouse =Amy Hoover Sanders O'Rourke (married 2005)
|children=Three children
|alma_mater=Woodberry Forest School (Madison County, [[Virginia]])<br>
[[Columbia University]]
}}
'''Robert Francis O'Rourke,''' known as '''Beto O'Rourke''' and formerly as '''Rob O'Rourke''' (born September 26, 1972), has been since 2013 the U.S. Representative]] for [[Texas]]'s 16th congressional district, bas3ed about his native [[El Paso]]. He is the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee for the [[United States Senate]] in 2018. He faces the incumbent [[Republican Party|Republicvan]] [[Ted Cruz]] in the November 8 [[general election]].
O'Rourke was elected to the first of his three terms in Congress in November 2012. Earlier in the year he had unseated the incumbent Representative Silvestre Reyes, a fellow Democrat. Before his congressional years, the [[business]]man O'Rourke represented District 8 on the El Paso City Council.
The Irish-American O'Rourke claims that his nickname "Beto" came from childhood as a shortened name for "Roberto" in Spanish, where many of his friends are Hispanic. At [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]], at which he participated on the rowing team, he was known as "Robert" or "Rob". O'Rourke's mother is the former Meissa Martha Williams. His father was El Paso County Judge Pat Francis O'Rourke, a political associate of former Texas [[Governor]] [[Mark White]]'s whose son, Andrew White, is a candidate in the May 22 Democratic gubernatorial runoff election. The senior O'Rourke was killed in July 2001, when he was struck from behind by a vehicle while he was riding his bicycle across the state line into [[New Mexico]].<ref>Bill Lambrecht, "From border to brink of Senate run, ''San Antonio Express-News'', March 17, 2017, pp. 1, A9.</ref>
In the Republican primary held on March 6, 2018, Cruz defeated four weak intra-party opponents with 1,317,450 votes (85.3 percent). In the Democratic primary, O'Rourke received 641,337 votes (61.8 percent) over two intra-party rivals. Some 506,000 more Republicans voted in the Texas primary than did Democrats.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/mar06_325_state.htm?x=0&y=1394&id=142|title=Election Returns|date=March 6, 2018|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=March 9, 2018}}</ref>
The [[liberal]] O'Rourke, who unlike Cruz is not himself Hispanic, is believed to be a potentially strong opponent because of an early start to his campaign, favorable media coverage, strong fund-raising (often surpassing Cruz, and a perception that he resembles "a Kennedy," referring to the popular [[Massachusetts]] [[John F. Kennedy|family of politicians]] and has the same given names as [[Robert Kennedy|Robert Francis Kennedy]]. Already a candidate in 2017, O'Rourke traveled by car to southeastern Texas to participate in [[Hurricane Harvey]] relief operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/makes-beto-orourke-run/|title=Does Beto O'Rourke Stand a Chance Against Ted Cruz|date=January 2018|publisher=Texasmonthly.com|accessdate=March 9, 2018}}</ref>
O'Rourke has developed a friendly relationship with [[Moderate Republican]] [[Will Hurd]] of Helotes, an [[African-American]] who represents Texas' 23rd congressional district. The two rode together by car in 2017 from Texas to [[Washington, D.C.]]
O'Rourke supports [[amnesty]] for [[illegal alien]]s, [[LGBT]], [[gun control]], [[Obamacareand [[abortion]] and opposes the War on Drugs.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:O'Rourke, Beto}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category;Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Liberals]]