The El Paso Pussycats.
Via Free Beacon:
Democratic Congressman Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, an Irish-American who adopted the Mexican nickname during his childhood in Texas, officially announced on Friday that he will run for U.S. Senate in 2018 against Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas).
O’Rourke, 44 years old, is the son of Patrick Francis “Pat” O’Rourke, an El Paso judge whose family immigrated to the United States from Ireland three generations earlier. It was in El Paso that the young Robert began going by “Beto,” a common nickname in Mexico for people named Roberto.
The Mexican nickname came in handy in 2012 when O’Rourke decided to challenge eight-term incumbent Democrat Silvestre Reyes in a congressional district that is 75 percent Mexican and just 2 percent Irish.
O’Rourke won and has since legislated under the belief that he is the representative for both the people of El Paso and neighbor across the U.S. border, Juarez, arguing that it is his responsibility to look after the interests of the Mexican city.
“In my role as a representative for El Paso, I’ve got to take into account what’s going on in Juarez,” O’Rourke told Buzzfeed in 2014.
A year earlier, O’Rourke told Reason that he thinks the United States should “open up the border” with Mexico between El Paso and Juarez. He has stated that there is no border crisis.[…]
Although Bill Clinton actively campaigned against him in 2012, O’Rourke also fell in line as a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in 2016.
“I am supporting Hillary Clinton because she represents the best opportunity for experienced leadership in the world’s most important job,” O’Rourke said last summer.