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For the finance reporting period of 2017-18, his top contributors were firstly the US-based tech giant Google Inc. and secondly the pro-Israel liberal lobbying groups, JStreetPAC, which has deep ties to the Democratic Party establishment.<ref>[https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/beto-o-rourke/summary?cid=N00033540 OpenSecrets page for Beto O'Rourke]</ref>
For the finance reporting period of 2017-18, his top contributors were firstly the US-based tech giant Google Inc. and secondly the pro-Israel liberal lobbying groups, JStreetPAC, which has deep ties to the Democratic Party establishment.<ref>[https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/beto-o-rourke/summary?cid=N00033540 OpenSecrets page for Beto O'Rourke]</ref>


In 2021, he announced that he's running for Texas Governor.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Jeremy Wallace, Austin Bureau|date=2021-11-15|title=Beto O'Rourke announces he's running for Texas governor|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-running-for-Texas-governor-16620783.php|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref>
In 2021, he announced that he's running for Texas Governor.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Jeremy Wallace, Austin Bureau|date=2021-11-15|title=Beto O'Rourke announces he's running for Texas governor|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-running-for-Texas-governor-16620783.php|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> In 2022 he won the Democratic Party primary for governor.<ref>[https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1498841783341621255?s=20&t=qAP_bCl6iVtc2gVoNw5SCA "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beto O'Rourke wins Democratic nomination for governor in Texas primary election."] Kyle Griffen, MSNBC Executive Producer on Twitter.com (Archive)</ref>


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Revision as of 02:59, 2 March 2022

Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is an American politician from Texas. Despite being hailed as a "progressive" in the bourgeois Democratic Party, he's a member of the New Democrat Coalition, which is deeply connected to the finance, industry, and real estate industries and has been described as 'Clintonite'.[1][2]

He does not support popular progressive demands like Medicare for All.[2]

For the finance reporting period of 2017-18, his top contributors were firstly the US-based tech giant Google Inc. and secondly the pro-Israel liberal lobbying groups, JStreetPAC, which has deep ties to the Democratic Party establishment.[3]

In 2021, he announced that he's running for Texas Governor.[4] In 2022 he won the Democratic Party primary for governor.[5]

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