Beto O'Rourke touts his oft-overlooked background -- small-business owner -- as Greg Abbott attacks

[TexasTowelie]

Beto O’Rourke touts his oft-overlooked background — small-business owner — as Greg Abbott attacks him as job-killer

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune


Facing Republican attacks that he is a threat to the Texas economy, Beto O’Rourke is playing up a part of his background that has gotten little attention since he burst on the statewide scene: small-business owner.

With GOP Gov. Greg Abbott attacking O’Rourke as a job-killing socialist, the former El Paso congressman has been increasingly discussing the experience on the campaign trail, and it is the subject of his campaign’s first significant paid media. O’Rourke co-founded Stanton Street Technology Group, an El Paso web-design company, in 1999, and owned it for over a decade.

“So Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke — only one of them has started a small business and met a payroll every single week for 15 years,” O’Rourke says in a new digital ad, part of an initial $50,000 buy that starts Wednesday.

The economy is a top issue for Abbott, and he has argued O’Rourke would be disastrous given his support for things like a $15 minimum wage.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/23/beto-abbott-jobs-experience/

[patphil]

1. The trouble with Beto O'Rourke is that he makes too much sense.

He knows what Texans need, and he knows how to get it...1 million new jobs!
But, he is going up against the illogical, nonsensical BS of the Republican party.

I love him, and I hope he wins, but I wonder if the average Texas voter is ready for truth.
I wonder if the voters of Texas have had enough of Republican generated fear, anger and hate. I am concerned that they still embrace the lies Abbott spews forth.

Come on Texas, get woke!

[catrose]

3. He visited all 250+ counties in his Senate run.

He delivered supplies during the freeze. I hope all that carries forward.

[patphil]

4. So do i, he'd make a great governor.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R for Beto! Thanks so much for posting!