Beto O'Rourke, Kennedyesque: a dangerous drunk

[Delmar]

Fri Aug 31, 2018, 05:54 PM
oberliner (55,024 posts)

Beto O'Rourke DWI episode in 1998 included car crash and alleged attempt to flee


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Source: Washington Post

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.), who is mounting a spirited bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), was involved in a drunken driving episode 20 years ago in which he crashed into another vehicle and sought to flee, according to police reports from the time.

Though O’Rourke’s DWI arrest has long been publicly known — and seemed not to hinder his political career — the reports that surfaced this week suggest that the episode was more serious than detailed in previous media accounts.

The state and local police reports, published Thursday night by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, say that O’Rourke, who was 26 at the time, was driving drunk at what a witness called “a high rate of speed” in a 75 mph zone of an interstate when he lost control of his Volvo and hit a truck.

The reports say the impact sent O’Rourke’s car across the center median, where it came to a complete stop. Then, according to a witness, O’Rourke “attempted to leave the scene,” the reports say. The police officer who responded was dispatched at 3 a.m.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/beto-orourke-dwi-episode-in-1998-included-car-crash-and-alleged-attempt-to-flee/2018/08/31/6fff5bb8-ad3a-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10142148458

The primitives have been going on for months about what a dreamboat Beto is, about how he's just like the Kennedys, how he has a super cool haircut just like the Kennedys, how he was in a groovy punk band, and on and on. 

Now it turns out that there is some truth to what the shitgibbons over at democrat underground have been babbling about.  O'Rourke got loaded, crashed his car, and tried to flee the scene--just like Ted Kennedy.  And he managed to pull all this off without messing up his gorgeous hairdo, as his attractive mugshot proves.

Response to oberliner (Original post)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 05:59 PM
bettyellen (46,761 posts)
3. I don't care, do you?

Response to bettyellen (Reply #3)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 06:06 PM
Star Member Pachamama (11,389 posts)
7. Nope....

I have seen far far worse from elected members in Congress and the current occupant of the White House

He didn't leave a woman to die like Ted Kennedy did but it was still pretty bad.

Response to George II (Reply #35)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 07:33 PM
Star Member Eliot Rosewater (17,485 posts)
59. Democrats dont care about this story.

Liberals dont care.
Democrats dont care
etc

Response to oberliner (Original post)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 06:07 PM
Star Member spooky3 (21,427 posts)
8. How does a 20 year old incident qualify as "late breaking news"?

As the commenters at the WaPo site explained in a dozen different ways, this story has been out there a LONG time, Beto has addressed it repeatedly, and even with the worst interpretation, it is nowhere close to the many incidents involving Trump—or even the Bushes/Cheney.

I can remember a BS story that had the shitgibbons really wiggle waggling their armpits about how Mitt Romney had held a gay classmate down and given him a haircut back in his prep school days. 

Response to oberliner (Original post)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 09:44 PM
samir.g (571 posts)
91. I don't care if he has 1000 DWIs

[Mary Ann]

Response to oberliner (Original post)Fri Aug 31, 2018, 06:07 PM
Star Member spooky3 (21,427 posts)
8. How does a 20 year old incident qualify as "late breaking news"?

But in 2012 it was revealed (and considered TOTALLY relevant) that at age 17 Mitt Romney (may have) cut a (maybe gay) kid's hair. Thereby permanently rendering himself morally unfit to be president.

If it weren't for double standards the DUmp would have no standards.

[DLR Pyro]

oberliner (55,024 posts)

Beto O'Rourke DWI episode in 1998 included car crash and alleged attempt to flee

The only things missing are an Oldsmobile Delmont 88, a rickety wooden bridge, and an office gal in the passenger seat....

[zeitgeist]

B(M)ueller, B(M)ueller, please.

Let's not forget Laura Bush and the DUmp assault on her. Anyone with a bit of Google Foo can shirley find the references at the DUmp.   Here is one for starters:

 https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x731896 


Need I say more? Sauce for the gander as the saying goes.

[SVPete]

Cruz' campaign pointed out Robert's criminal record - well not exactly a criminal record, as Robert went into a diversion program in lieu of being prosecuted. Vox and similar ProgMedia tried to deny it, and the Houston Chronicle spilled the rest of the beans (That's a metaphor, son, that's a metaphor!). And now the WashPost has published the story as well. I wonder if they sense Robert is not doing well and are publishing some late-in-the-day CYA.

Did I mention that O'Rourke's name is "Robert"? Just in case I forgot, O'Rourke's name is "Robert". If an R tried Robert's phony nickname shtick they'd get called out for cultural appropriation.

[Ralph Wiggum]

B(M)ueller, B(M)ueller, please.

Let's not forget Laura Bush and the DUmp assault on her. Anyone with a bit of Google Foo can shirley find the references at the DUmp.   Here is one for starters:

 https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x731896 


Need I say more? Sauce for the gander as the saying goes.

My first thought too.  Screw Robert O'Rourke.  His given name, and he has no Hispanic heritage.  Cultural appropriation.

[BlueStateSaint]

My first thought too.  Screw Robert O'Rourke.  His given name, and he has no Hispanic heritage.  Cultural appropriation.

Cruz needs to call him out in a debate, or ASAP, so 'Beto' will have to defend his cultural appropriation for the rest of the campaign.

[Mary Ann]

Cruz needs to call him out in a debate, or ASAP, so 'Beto' will have to defend his cultural appropriation for the rest of the campaign.

I think I read that Beto turned down a debate with Cruz. Cruz would have mopped the floor with Beto.

[DumbAss Tanker]

1998, eh?  Just two years later they were all over W as unacceptable because of an old DWI incident.  The worm turns.

[USA4ME]

B(M)ueller, B(M)ueller, please.

Let's not forget Laura Bush and the DUmp assault on her. Anyone with a bit of Google Foo can shirley find the references at the DUmp.   Here is one for starters:

 https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x731896 


Need I say more? Sauce for the gander as the saying goes.

Gotta love this!!

John1956PA

33. In 1994, A&E's "Investigative Reports" offered an alternative version of the events.
The following narrative was prepared by L. James Hammond, a viewer of the "Investigative Reports" episode to which I refer. Mr. Hammond's narrative can be found at http://www.ljhammond.com/phlit/2004-12c.htm .

According to "Investigative Reports'" version of the events, Mary Jo Kopechne was driving the car at the time of the accident. She was alone in the car, as Kennedy was then walking back to the cottage. After arriving back at the cottage, Kennedy's clothing was dry and he did not recruit fellow-party goers to take him to the accident scene. Rather, he was not even aware of the accident until many hours later - after he returned to his lodging, slept, awoke, dressed, and prepared to go sailing.

My purpose in posting this is not to defend Kennedy or to take sides in the debate of what he did or did not do on the night of the accident. My purpose is simply to mention a version which, in A&E's eyes, has evidentiary support.

Narrative prepared by L. James Hammond:

Mary Jo Kopechne was driving the car when it went off the bridge; she was alone in the car. The car was unfamiliar to her (it belonged to Kennedy), and the area was unfamiliar to her. It was late at night, she had been at a party, perhaps she had been drinking. She was driving fast, trying to get away from a sheriff. Kennedy had been in the car with Mary Jo; they were on Dike Road, which was known as a “lovers lane”.

When a sheriff approached them, they drove off fast, Kennedy at the wheel. Then Kennedy got out of the car, because he didn’t want to be caught with Mary Jo, caught speeding, caught driving drunk. Mary Jo, alone in the car, sped off to escape the sheriff, and skidded on the bridge. The bridge was narrow, and had no railings. The car skidded off the bridge, and landed in the tidal pond upside down. Once the car was in the pond, it probably filled with water (since it was July, windows were probably open in the car). Mary Jo may have been unable to open the car doors because of the pressure of the water. Or she may have been jolted by the accident, and unable even to attempt to open the car doors.

Kennedy returned to his guest house, and assumed that Mary Jo was okay; he didn’t know that the car had skidded off the bridge. People at the guest house found Kennedy normal and composed late that night, and early the next morning. Kennedy phoned no one — neither his friends nor the police — until morning. Once he learned of Mary Jo’s death, he conferred with his advisers, and they decided that since it was his car, since people knew that he was with Mary Jo, and since he couldn’t admit to leaving the car when the sheriff was in pursuit, he had to pretend that he was driving the car when it rolled into the water. He invented a string of lies to save his career; he even appeared in public with a neck brace, as if he had been injured in the accident.

You've got to be a special level of whacko to believe this junk. But the primitives believe anything that protects their ideology, and will expand beyond reason anything that might damage those to whom they are opposed.

IOW 

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[docstew]

Cruz needs to call him out in a debate, or ASAP, so 'Beto' will have to defend his cultural appropriation for the rest of the campaign.

They had seven debates scheduled, but Robert has already tapped out on the first one.

[freedumb2003b]

Beto is as Latino as Sheriff Bart is Dutch.

His name is Robert Francis O'Rourke.

He should go by Falso not Beto.

[FiddyBeowulf]

I think I read that Beto turned down a debate with Cruz. Cruz would have mopped the floor with Beto.

Ellen and her viewers were more important to Robert than the voters in Texas.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Cruz needs to call him out in a debate, or ASAP, so 'Beto' will have to defend his cultural appropriation for the rest of the campaign.

Based on the apparent close poll #'s, I'm certain Senator Cruz will.  Have a difficult time believing that TX would vote in Robbie.

[Gwitness]

My son was very nearly killed Saturday morning while on his way home from work, he was stopped at a stop light and the bastard drunk hit the rear of his car at over 60 mph, my sons car burst into flames, it was only due to the quick thinking and actions of a witness that my son made it out of that car.......he had just completed his first shift at work after spending a month fighting wild fires here in Washington.  All drunk drivers should hang.

[Texacon]

My son was very nearly killed Saturday morning while on his way home from work, he was stopped at a stop light and the bastard drunk hit the rear of his car at over 60 mph, my sons car burst into flames, it was only due to the quick thinking and actions of a witness that my son made it out of that car.......he had just completed his first shift at work after spending a month fighting wild fires here in Washington.  All drunk drivers should hang.

Holy cow!  I'm glad you're son survived.  Hopefully his injuries are not too serious and will heal quickly.

KC

[Tess Anderson]

bitch has a history of running away - he went on the Ellen Degenerate show instead of debating Cruz.

oh this fake Hispanic. He talks about his "roots" Here:

https://youtu.be/Hz-1fevQq40

but he manages to leave out:

https://ghost.report/2018/06/04/beto-orourke-clean-cut-man-with-a-dirty-family-file-pt-1/

In way over his head with Ted Cruz.

[franksolich]

[Tess Anderson]

what is the matter with this guy? I realize he's a libtard but he has to know he's running for the Senate in Texas, not in Kalifornia:

http://m.navasotaexaminer.com/news/article_8116f2c2-b090-11e8-b002-43b453a4b6fa.html?mode=jqm

“I do not normally attend rental events, but I attended Saturday to make sure things ran smoothly,” said Dry, who noted there were only two requests he could not allow at the VFW Post. “They wanted to open the doors (to the Flight Deck Lounge) and I couldn’t allow that and they wanted to take the flags down, I didn’t only say no, I said hell no, you don’t take the flags off the wall. I can’t believe any American would ask us to do that and I don’t know why he wanted them down or what he was going to put up instead.”

probably the Mexican flag. Fraud.

[67 Rover]

“I do not normally attend rental events, but I attended Saturday to make sure things ran smoothly,” said Dry, who noted there were only two requests he could not allow at the VFW Post. “They wanted to open the doors (to the Flight Deck Lounge) and I couldn’t allow that and they wanted to take the flags down, I didn’t only say no, I said hell no, you don’t take the flags off the wall. I can’t believe any American would ask us to do that and I don’t know why he wanted them down or what he was going to put up instead.”

[/color]

Che Guevara or Antifa flag would be my guess.

[Ralph Wiggum]

what is the matter with this guy? I realize he's a libtard but he has to know he's running for the Senate in Texas, not in Kalifornia:

http://m.navasotaexaminer.com/news/article_8116f2c2-b090-11e8-b002-43b453a4b6fa.html?mode=jqm

probably the Mexican flag. Fraud.

Robbie probably wears pig socks ala his hero Colin Zero.