Here's who's running Beto O'Rourke's South Carolina campaign

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is forming his South Carolina campaign team, choosing veterans with ties to local elected officials whose endorsements would be considered coups in the Palmetto State.

The former U.S. congressman from Texas has selected Lauren Harper and Tyler Jones to serve as state director and senior adviser, respectively, according to an official announcement shared first with McClatchy.

Harper is a former policy and communications adviser to Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, the city’s first black chief executive and current president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The CEO of her own public affairs firm and a former aide to S.C. Sen. Mia McLeod, D-Richland, Harper is also African American, an advantage for the O’Rourke campaign in a state where black women make up a powerful primary voting bloc.

Read more: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article229523014.html

[dalton99a]

1. They are well aware of what happened in Houston

Beto's coattails in Harris County: Democrats swept every judicial seat in the state’s most populous county. Of the newly appointed Democrats, an unprecedented 17 are black women, significantly changing the face of a judiciary that had been primarily white.

[IndyOp]

3. I LOVE those judges!!

We had a local AA woman judge who recently retired and who was respected by everyone and beloved by most in our county. Small county. She saved so many individual lives and families by directing people to all available diversion resources when she could. She read the cases and brought in case workers, etcetera to get the real story. Repeat offenders who returned to her court knew they were in for a tough, grandmotherly dressing down for showing up a second or third time. A good judge I can do powerful good.

[Indygram]

4. Beto helped elect so many black women as judges in Texas

And that is going to go a long way in fighting racial injustice in the legal system there.

[artislife]

2. That is cool! nt