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==Background==
==Background==
[[Beto-and-the-pussycats 310.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Beto at the start of his stellar rise.]]
[[File:Beto-and-the-pussycats 310.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Beto at the start of his stellar rise.]]
The Irish-American O'Rourke claims that his nickname "Beto" came from childhood as a shortened name for "Roberto" in Spanish; many of his friends are Hispanic, and El Paso is a predominantly Hispanic city. Beto is considered by many as the penultimate [[beta-male]].<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/411830-ex-trump-strategist-calls-beto-orourke-beta</ref> 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 Melissa Martha Williams. His father was El Paso County Judge Pat Francis O'Rourke, a political associate of former Texas [[Governor]] [[Mark White]], whose son, Andrew White, lost the May 22, 2018, Democratic gubernatorial runoff election to the former sheriff of Dallas County, [[Lupe Valdez]]. 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>
The Irish-American O'Rourke claims that his nickname "Beto" came from childhood as a shortened name for "Roberto" in Spanish; many of his friends are Hispanic, and El Paso is a predominantly Hispanic city. Beto is considered by many as the penultimate [[beta-male]].<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/411830-ex-trump-strategist-calls-beto-orourke-beta</ref> 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 Melissa Martha Williams. His father was El Paso County Judge Pat Francis O'Rourke, a political associate of former Texas [[Governor]] [[Mark White]], whose son, Andrew White, lost the May 22, 2018, Democratic gubernatorial runoff election to the former sheriff of Dallas County, [[Lupe Valdez]]. 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>