Beto O'Rourke Handles Fastballs and One Curveball in San Diego Town Hall (Lorena Bobbitt question)

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Beto O’Rourke recalls knocking on 16,000 doors in his first run for Congress in 2012. He’s tackled nearly every issue imaginable.

Then he came to San Diego.

“You have a lot on your plate,” said a native Californian named Raven at his town-hall meeting Tuesday. “I’d like to take a look at the things that we can do ourselves to free you up to do the things that are really important.”

But Raven, who said she lives in San Diego, cut to a wholly different chase. Talking about men taking advantage of women, she suggested “something like maybe Lorena Bobbitt … and free yourself forever.”

That 1993 reference to the Virginian who took a carving knife to her abusive husband left men in the 250-member Jacobs Center audience cringing and women giggling.

O’Rourke replied: “I gotta tell you — I didn’t see that coming. But I don’t think there’s much I should add to that. But thank you for your comments.”

Empathetic and charismatic, the former El Paso congressman who rocketed to national fame in his close loss to Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 was better prepared for nine other questions in the final public event of his first California swing as a Democratic presidential candidate.

He talked climate change — the subject of his $5 trillion proposal Monday — and homelessness, the Equal Rights Amendment and immigration, education and “structural racism,” health care and gun control.

https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/04/30/beto-orourke-handles-fastballs-and-one-curveball-in-san-diego-town-hall/

[Skittles]

1. I thought his response to the Bobbitt one was excellent

honesty, to the point, and dismissive......perfect

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2. I couldn't hear her question clearly so this article helped out with that, lol

I knew I heard "Lorena Bobbitt" and I saw the expressions on the faces of the audience. His response cracked me up, too. I highly recommend people watch it.

[dalton99a]

3. That was perfect

[Cha]

4. Good god.. yeah, Beto's reply to Raven's switching

to Lorena infamous Bobbit was brilliant.

Thank her for her comment and get the hell outta there.. fast!

[Indygram]

5. lol...did you see the video? The looks on peoples' faces was hilarious

I laughed so hard.

[NYMinute]

6. K&R nt