Okay....”daddy a judge”....explains it.
Beta’s daddy, Pat O’Rouke, was the “County Judge” of El Paso County, aka the Presiding member of the “Commissioners’ court” (the county government) not a “Judge Judge”.
He was a liberal rat and was Texas Chairman for the Jesse Jackass campaign in 1984 but he later switched to the GOP and ran for Congress in 1992 (the seat Beta now holds), getting badly obliterated by 3-1 in the GOP primary runoff. He then lost a bid to return as County Judge as a Republican in 1998. He died in 2001, ironically because a (drunk?) driver rammed into him from behind while he was riding his bicycle.