When Did Beto Stop Taking Pac Money
Beto O'Rourke creates his own PAC
Quondam U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, speaks to supporters during a entrada terminate in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat on Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Houston. ( Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle )
Brett Coomer, Staff / Houston RelateWhen Democrat Beto O'Rourke was a candidate for role, he swore off political action committees and warned of their corrupting influence in politics.
But now, just over a month after ending his campaign for the White House, the sometime congressman from El Paso is creating his very own federal PAC, which he said will be used to "organize grassroots volunteers to practise the tough, necessary work that wins elections."
Federal Election Committee records show that O'Rourke created Powered by People on Dec. 13 with the same treasurer and same El Paso Postal service Office box as an address he used for Beto for America — his campaign for the White House.
"Powered past People helps Texans volunteer in critical races," O'Rourke wrote on Twitter in promoting the new PAC. "Organizing grassroots volunteers is how we win the land house, overcome racist gerrymandering, defeat (U.S. Sen.) John Cornyn & help our Presidential nominee win Texas' 38 electoral higher votes."
During his campaigns for U.S. Senate and president, O'Rourke took no PAC coin.
"I don't have a dime of PAC coin — no corporations, no special interests," O'Rourke said during an interview on HBO's "Real Time with Neb Maher."
O'Rourke explained in the interview that PACs correspond corporations and special interests with business earlier Congress and that their donations requite them access to Congress.
"They're likewise ownership outcomes, actual legislative language that appears in the bills and in the bills that become laws," O'Rourke said. "When you wonder why Congress is so dysfunctional, why it doesn't stand for the interests of the people it purports to serve, it's because it'south so tied to the sources of money that are coming in."
Since dropping out of the presidential race, O'Rourke has thrown himself into campaigns for the Legislature. He's trying to help Democrats win plenty seats to flip the Republican-controlled Business firm to Democrats. Final month, he urged his supporters to donate to another group called Flip the Texas Firm, which has targeted 17 House Districts in which Republican candidates won by fewer than 10 per centum points final year. More than half are districts in which O'Rourke won the bulk of votes when he ran for the Senate.
Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-creates-his-own-PAC-14922743.php
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