Beto O’Rourke on Texas: ‘I don’t know that we’re a conservative state’
To Beto O’Rourke, voting rights represent the silver bullet for progress in Texas.
If more of the over 7 million Texans who were eligible to vote but didn’t last election could actually make it to the ballot box, the former Democratic presidential hopeful thinks state lawmakers would soon stop going after transgender student athletes and abortion access.
Instead, legislators would spend their time fixing Texas’s electric grid, which left millions shivering in the dark and hundreds dead when it failed during a devastating winter storm last February. They would be compelled to expand healthcare coverage in a state with the most uninsured, and they would actually address the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed
