In the 1990s, O’Rourke was a bassist in the punk rock band Foss, alongside Cedric Bixler-Zavala who is the vocalist for At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta. The group toured the U.S. and Canada in 1993 and 1994.
O’Rourke endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in June 2016. As a member of Congress, he was a superdelegate during the Democratic National Convention.
In 2017, he livestreamed a road trip that he took with Republican Rep. Will Hurt of San Antonio. They answered questions about health care and other issues, punctuated with rounds of karaoke.
O’Rourke is the son of Melissa Martha and Judge Pat Francis O’Rourke. He adopted the name “Beto,” which is short for Roberto. He’s fluent in Spanish and a fourth-generation Irish American. His father was the El Paso County Commissioner and then County Judge in the 1980s. Pat was killed in July 2001, at the age of 58, when he was riding his bicycle over the New Mexico state line and was hit by a car. O’Rourke’s mom, Melissa, owns Charlotte’s Furniture, a business his grandmother started in 1950.
O’Rourke attended Columbia University and was captain of the rowing crew. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in English literature. After college, he worked for Internet service providers in New York before returning to El Paso in 1998. In 1999 he co-founded Stanton Street Technology, an Internet services company that develops websites and software. His wife Amy was still running the business in March 2017.
O’Rourke and Amy Hoover Sanders were married in September 2005. Amy is the daughter of Louann and William Sanders of El Paso. She’s the director of education development for La Fe Community Development Corporation. She’s also the executive director of the La Fe Preparatory charter school. They have three children.
Our government spent decades illegally spying on the civil rights movement in an effort to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and neutralize” people who were working to expand the exercise of rights in this country. In this century, our government has imposed a massive spying program on all Americans, as well as creating lists of people who are accused of being terrorists without taking the trouble to verify the claim.
Our government felt entitled to remove the elected leader of Iran in 1953, putting its faith in a dictatorial monarch, an act that resulted in a quarter-century of repression and ultimately brought us a regime that has killed thousands, including many Americans, around the world. And the meddling perpetrated by our government for over a hundred years in Central America has destabilized many countries, installed petty tyrants, and produced the immigration crisis that is our national attempt at dodging responsibility. And lest the enormity of the deed makes us forget, our government committed genocide against the peoples who lived here first.
Our government lied about an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to get us fully into a war that cost us almost 60,000 lives and lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and about that country's supposed involvement in the 9/11 attacks, resulting in over 8,000 deaths of U.S. military and contractor personnel.
And if all these offenses are not enough, note that buyback is not the appropriate term here, since as readers of this site will understand, we gun owners didn't buy our guns from the government—purchasers of surplus weapons excepted. The usage of “buyback” appears to be to create the impression that what is happening is a safety recall, not a mandate for confiscation. A buyback would be a return of the firearm to the original seller, and if the government receives a gun from me in a buyback without delivering it to the actual source, that would make the government a straw purchaser if we take the legal language literally.
The bottom line here is that the government cannot pass my background check. As a result, I am unable to sell any guns to the government. Please pound salt.
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