On Thursday, Beto O'Rourke finally made his 2020 plans official, potentially setting him on a path to become America's first punk-rock president.
But his grassroots campaign that inspired a strong turnout among Texas Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections and his ability to connect younger voters spurred many of his supporters to call for O'Rourke to make a run at the White House — a call he finally answered this week with a cover story in Vanity Fair announcing his presidential ambitions.
Born and raised in upper middle-class family in El Paso, O'Rourke went to college in New York City at Columbia University, where he majored in English and graduated in 1995. In 1993, Foss self-released an album called"The El Paso Pussycats." Rolling Stone even put a track from the album online last year and the Texas GOP tweeted a copy of the album's cover, seemingly to mock O'Rourke, though the move backfired.One of O'Rourke's Foss bandmates, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, later won a Grammy in 2008 with the band Mars Volta and told the Dallas Observer in 2017 that O'Rourke was a mentor:"The way I make art, I learned it from Beto.
O'Rourke worked a handful of different jobs, including working as an art mover and he took a part-time job at his uncle's internet-service provider business. At one point, though, during a particularly crowded subway commute from Brooklyn to a job as a proofreader at a publishing house in the Bronx,"I just had this vision of being in my truck with the windows down," he told The New York Times, referring to his upbringing in Texas.
Today, O'Rourke has three children between the ages of 8 and 12, and his family still lives in El Paso, where he has a music room, not necessarily to play punk music, but where he and his children can jam on drums, guitars and a keyboard.
MakeIt Running away from an accident and being charged with drunk driving is not a recipe for a run for the White House ! He a lying fool and a complete socialist!
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MakeIt Wtf is a beto
MakeIt It’s amazing what one can do these days. Look at the President.
MakeIt I think it’s pretty obvious that moral character & good will has no monetary motivation
MakeIt He didn’t
MakeIt This is an easy one. He married into money.
MakeIt How did he become 'Nacho'🤪
MakeIt Goofy Beto!! That Goofy Lookin Guy! LotsOfHandMovements Crazy
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MakeIt Similar to the bar tender who was elected to the House
MakeIt Backed by SOROS!!!
MakeIt How Beto went from drummer and nanny to once loosing candidate and now candidate for President. Simple, Foreign money sent back to the USA from foreign nations receiving US foreign aid.
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MakeIt Looks similar to the clown that was elected in Canada. Don’t buy into this hipster doofus.
MakeIt Hes a sexist MOFO-In 1991, Robert O’ Rourke described female actresses as having “phenomenally large breasts and incredibly tight buttocks’” as their only qualifications for acting
MakeIt No bias at all. I get it. Objective.
MakeIt All it takes is a little money from radical liberals.
MakeIt We already know how...
MakeIt Now he’s just a Hispanic nanny by day and an indie rock drummer by night! Sounds like a sitcom.
MakeIt Don't forget the DUI. That builds character.