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To: FJB who wrote (90347)8/30/2018 10:03:28 AM
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Texas GOP scorches Beto O’Rourke, fires off some damning tweets from his ‘hazy’ past
August 30, 2018 | Vivek Saxena

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For instance, this week O’Rourke sheepishly backed out of a planned Aug. 31 debate against Cruz, reportedly saying, “Friday in Dallas is not going to happen, but I’m convinced we will debate. I’m convinced there will be a number of debates.”

He then tried to excuse his craven behavior by pointing to purported differences in preferences between him and Cruz regarding when the debates should occur, who should moderate the debates and what the debate topics should be.

“We’re working through those differences, and we’re trying to introduce more of a collaborative style to the negotiations than he may be used to,” he said Monday at the 2018 Texas Disability Issues Forum.

Uh huh ..

The response from the Texas GOP was brutal and often funny.

Below is a mug shot of O’Rourke when he was arrested in his 20’s for a DWI. A caption on the photo reads: “Sorry, Can’t debate. Had a little too much to drink.”

But the Texas GOP wasn’t done…

The tweet above referenced O’Rourke’s childlike skateboarding habit.

And the tweet above referenced O’Rourke’s prior band membership. The Texas GOP’s tweets, which were obviously meant in jest, were meant to poke fun at the current House representative’s past history as a veritable hipster doofus. To be fair, almost everybody was once a hipster doofus.

Cruz’s campaign responded to O’Rourke’s debate rejection as well, albeit a bit more tactfully.

“[O’Rourke] begged for debates, but when Sen. Cruz invited him to five debates all across Texas, suddenly O’Rourke seemed to get scared,” spokesperson Emily Miller said, reportedly adding that “except for when he has to be in DC for his work in the Senate, Cruz is ready and excited to debate O’Rourke, including this Friday.”

Other Twitter users chimed in as well:

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To: FJB who wrote (90347)8/30/2018 12:23:46 PM
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They bought a poor old dairy-cow to torture. When Canada had mad-cow disease shut down it’s beef industry a few years ago it was a similar dairy-cow. I drink organic soy milk, wouldn’t touch Canadian dairy with a ten foot pole. Still, I hope the Muslims don’t contract more brain disorders.


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