EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday night that Texas would send busloads of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to more cities and Democrat challenger Beto O’Rourke pledged tighter gun laws as parents whose children were killed in the Uvalde school shooting stood outside an auditorium hosting the only debate before November’s election. The […]
Image: Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, standing on stage with finger in air, shouted at Democrat Beto O’Rourke (back to camera) who disrupted Governor Greg Abbott’s press conference on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Uvalde, where a tragic shooting occurred at an elementary school. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports and Associated Press Uvalde, May 26 – […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin, March 2 – Republican Governor Greg Abbott will face Democrat Beto O’Rourke after voters in Texas opened what could be a lengthy, bruising primary season poised to reshape political power from state capitals to Washington. Both easily won their party’s nomination for governor on Tuesday. Abbott is now in […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Washington, D.C., January 11 – Congressman Louie Gohmert has a reputation as a “conservative” in the United States House of Representatives and “inside the Beltway” of Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, a closer look at his voting record reveals a strong alliance with liberal Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, the Democrats’ standard-bearer for […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — There’s no road trip, no soul searching. No beard or blogging. But Beto O’Rourke is making a political life decision again. Three years after becoming Democrats’ breakout star out of Texas, and a year removed from crashing back to Earth in a short-lived presidential run, O’Rourke is again weighing another campaign — this […]
Image: Woodlands Township Board of Directors, Position 5, candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (right) with Montgomery County Republican Party Vice Chairman Reagan Reed (left) on October 16, 2019. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports The Woodlands and Conroe, November 3 – The Woodlands Township Board of Directors, Position 5, electoral contest has brought out two candidates who present […]
Image: Woodlands Township candidate Rashmi Gupta has waged a “furtive” campaign to block out all political signs of the Children’s Hope PAC, the group trying to protect children and taxpayers from Conroe ISD’s $677.3 Million bond package. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports The Woodlands, October 29 – Rashmi Gupta, an ultraliberal democrat running for the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says he raised $4.5 million during the three-month period through September, outpacing his lackluster second-quarter total but still far less than he got at the whirlwind start of his 2020 campaign. The former Texas congressman’s campaign says it saw donations soar after the last Democratic presidential debate […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Beto O’Rourke’s “hell yes” moment at the democrats’ presidential debate is scrambling his party’s message on guns. The democrats have long contended their support of gun control laws does not mean they want to take away law-abiding citizens’ firearms. But on Friday, they struggled to square that message with their presidential contender’s […]
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP and The Golden Hammer) — Beto O’Rourke took a path somewhat less traveled on Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina as he strives to make connections with the black voters who will play a dominant role in next year’s Southern presidential primaries.O’Rourke has […]