GOP slaps down Beto on St. Patrick’s day with this past embarrassment, and it is BRUTAL

by SooperMexican

The GOP twitter account went after Beto O’Rourke with this hilarious brutal tweet sent out for St. Patrick’s Day:

Wow. That’s… gonna leave a mark.

They are of course referring to a little event where Beto O’Rourke had a car accident under the influence of booze, and then ran off from the scene of the crime, but only received a slap on the wrist because his father was politically connected.

From Politifact:

The Chronicle, in an Aug. 30, 2018, news story, said a police report shows that the incident was a more serious threat to public safety than previously reported.

The newspaper, citing the report, said that O’Rourke was driving drunk at what a witness called “a high rate of speed” in a 75 mph zone on Interstate 10 about a mile east of the New Mexico border. He lost control and hit a truck, sending his car careening across the center median. The story said that the witness, described as stopping at the scene, later told police that O’Rourke had tried to leave the scene.

The report, the story says, refers to an unnamed “motorist’s description of O’Rourke’s dark-colored Volvo passing him quickly about 3 a.m. on I-10.” The story says that O’Rourke reportedly struck a truck going in the same direction and crossed a grassy median into the opposite lanes.

The story says that according to the police report, “O’Rourke then attempted to leave the scene but was stopped by the same motorist he had just passed. The unidentified motorist ‘then turned on his overhead lights to warn oncoming traffic and to try to get the defendant (O’Rourke) to stop,’ the report says.”

The story says that O’Rourke recorded a 0.136 and 0.134 on police breathalyzers, above a blood-alcohol level of 0.10, the state legal limit at the time. He was arrested at the scene, the story said, and charged with DWI, but completed a court-approved diversion program and had the charges dismissed, post-arrest developments we confirmed for a previous fact-check confirming the September 1998 arrest and a previous one, when O’Rourke was a college student, for getting past a fence to enter the University of Texas at El Paso campus in the wee hours.

And…

The court eventually dismissed the DWI charges, for reasons hard to fathom. The influence of his politically connected family (his father is an El Paso judge) could have been a factor.

Yup.

Beto didn’t like his past being thrown in his face:

Boo hoo. You wanna run for president you better be prepared to answer some questions – especially when you lied about it already.

Meanwhile Ted Lieu thinks he’s gonna get far with this:

Sorry buddy, had too many green beers to care about your silly criticism.


Comment Policy: Please read our comment policy before making a comment. In short, please be respectful of others and do not engage in personal attacks. Otherwise we will revoke your comment privileges.