Here's your facts... Originally Posted by gfejunkieArmed robbery? Not true. Twice arrested for drunk driving? Also not true. O'Rourke was arrested for climbing over a fence on the UTEP campus with a few others. He has one DWI arrest.
I think we've been through his use of the nickname "Beto", which he was given around the time he entered kindergarten. If you and others think he uses that nickname inappropriately in order to gain support of Hispanics, so be it.
Eminent Domain and Gentrification? Here's what I could find on that subject.
The Club for Growth commercial involves an episode that has come up in O'Rourke's previous races for City Council and Congress but not in the Senate contest until recently. The downtown revitalization plan was introduced in March 2006 by the Paso Del Norte Group —a private organization made up of regional business elite including Sanders — and would have impacted the historic Mexican-American neighborhood of Segundo Barrio.
While eminent domain was never used in conjunction with the project, the specter of it was controversial from the start. O’Rourke was among those on the council who at least initially wanted to preserve the option of eminent domain as a last resort and, for example, helped defeat a June 2006 motion to rule it out. A month later, as public concerns were growing about the plan, the council — including O’Rourke — voted to ban the use of eminent domain during the first year of the project.
If you have any information to support the allegations in the meme, please post the links. Anyone can make up memes with ridiculous allegations in them.
