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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is a first: Willie Nelson onstage with Sen. candidate BETO O'ROURKE singing pro-pot songs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/beto-orourke-suicide-mission-ted-cruz-time-life-might-even-come-alive-090027508.html
It was shortly after noon on a recent Saturday, and ORourke, or simply Beto as voters here have come to know him, had been going since around dawn in what Republicans and even some Democrats here once described as a suicide mission to unseat the states junior senator, Ted Cruz.
He had just wrapped up his fourth stop of the day a town hall in this small suburb south of Dallas, where he had addressed about 150 people, including an African-American woman who had stood and invoked Nelson Mandela to describe his unlikely quest as an unabashedly liberal Democrat to replace a Tea Party Republican in Texas. They always said it was impossible until it got done, the woman said, paraphrasing the legendary South African leader. Addressing the congressman, she said, Youre about to do it.
It was the kind of thing that people have been saying to ORourke, a lanky 6-foot-4 lawmaker whose undeniable charisma on the stump has invoked steady comparisons to a young Barack Obama by Democrats in search of their next great hope. A year ago, most people here had never heard of the 45-year-old, three-term congressman. But now, he was famous enough that a few days earlier, ORourke had found himself onstage strumming a guitar next to Willie Nelson THE Willie Nelson, he said incredulously at the singers annual Fourth of July picnic in Austin.
It was a turn of events that ORourke, who once toured the country playing bass in a punk band, still seemed a little stunned by. Showing a reporter a photo of him onstage with Nelson, he almost seemed to be reminding himself that it had really happened. ORourke, along with the singer Margo Price and Ray Benson, the legendary frontman from Asleep at the Wheel who had worn a Beto shirt onstage, joined Nelson for a medley of hits, including his pro-pot anthem, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die. And afterward, he had been given the stage to make his pitch to several thousand fans.
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This is a first: Willie Nelson onstage with Sen. candidate BETO O'ROURKE singing pro-pot songs. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Aug 2018
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Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)1. Awesome ...
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)2. Love it!!!
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)3. Beto is the real deal!
He's a rockstar here in Texas!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)4. Just stay OFF the bus!
That's so awesome!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)5. Willie and Ray Benson carry serious cred in Texas.
If Beto can carry some of that Outlaw Country vibe it will make a difference.
And off topic. Margo Price and her band are the best thing out of Nashville in 2 decades. Even if you think you do not like Country Music listen to her. She will make you a fan. Midwest Farmers Daughter is the best album in 20 years.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)6. Thanks for the tip about Margo Price!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)7. Please let me know what you think. Serious singer and song writer
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)8. It will give me something to talk to my niece about!
She recently went to a music festival in TX.
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)9. Go Beto!
Do it, Texas!