83: Encore Presentation: Stand Up with Beto O’ Rourke
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🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This episode was originally released on July 22, 2021. In this encore presentation, host Reed Galen is joined by Beto O’Rourke, former United States Congressman, Founder of Powered By People, and as of this past Monday…Texas gubernatorial candidate. They discuss the political landscape that is Texas, the Texas Legislature's voter-suppression bill and the 50+ Texas Democrats who traveled to Washington, and Speaker Pelosi’s decision to reject the additions of Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the January 6th House Select Committee. Plus, Beto O’Rourke spotlights the work of his PAC, Powered By People.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Today we're going to replay an interview I did with Beto or |
| 0:03.1 | Rorke this past July. And just to give you a sense of how long ago that |
| 0:07.3 | feels like Texas Democratic representatives were in Washington, DC to |
| 0:11.6 | defend against the Texas voting rights bill and Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just |
| 0:15.6 | vetoed allowing Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to serve on the January 6th |
| 0:19.0 | committee. Want to do this because Beto has just announced his run for |
| 0:22.7 | governor of Texas against sitting governor Greg Abbott. I hope you all |
| 0:26.5 | enjoy the show and we'll see you next week. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today I'm joined |
| 0:41.6 | by former United States Congressman for the 16th District of Texas. A candidate |
| 0:45.7 | for the US Senate in Texas in 2018 and a Democratic primary aspirin in 2020. |
| 0:51.4 | When founder of the pack powered by people Beto or Rorke Beto thanks for joining me. |
| 0:56.1 | Reed it's good to be with you. Thanks for having me. Listen today I want to talk |
| 0:59.8 | about what's going on down in Texas. Obviously you're from El Paso so you know |
| 1:03.2 | the place well and how that's impacting voting rights. And I also want to talk |
| 1:07.7 | a little bit about what we're seeing going on with Speaker Pelosi and the |
| 1:11.4 | select committee on January 6th and then a little bit more about what powered by |
| 1:15.2 | people is doing. I know you've done a ton of voter registration in the last |
| 1:18.4 | couple years but let's start with what's going on in Texas. So just a little |
| 1:23.0 | bit of background. You know I went to high school and college down there and |
| 1:25.7 | worked for George W. Bush you know 9798 worked for Tony Garza David Doherst |
| 1:30.4 | people who are all sort of very out of step with the Republican Party of |
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