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Fact Check: Beto O’Rourke ‘Absolutely Wrong’ on Ambulance Shortage After Texas Shootings
Breitbart ^ | 09/13/2019 | Joel B Pollak

Posted on 09/13/2019 12:18:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CLAIM: There were not enough ambulances available to save the victims of a recent mass shooting in Odessa, Texas.

VERDICT: FALSE. The City of Odessa said that its ambulances responded to the shooting quickly.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) received praised from his rivals onstage at the third Democrat debate at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, on Thursday evening. But he is being criticized by local West Texas CBS affiliate KOSA-7, which says that his claim that there were not enough ambulances available is “absolutely wrong.”

O’Rourke said during the debate (transcript via ABC News):

When we see that being used against children, and in Odessa, I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15, and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa and Midland, there weren’t enough ambulances to get to them in time, hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambulance; beetle; beto; bobblehead; fakehispanic; irish; shootings; texas

1 posted on 09/13/2019 12:18:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How did this idiot even get elected to congress? His is district moon-bat heaven or something?


2 posted on 09/13/2019 12:18:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, we all know he’s full of $hit to begin with, so this is not surprising.


3 posted on 09/13/2019 12:20:01 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
His name is Irish Bob. Not Beto. He’s 100% Irish.
He is however a Beta Male. Definitely not alpha.


4 posted on 09/13/2019 12:27:17 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Republican!”
“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answers the balloonist, “everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.”
The man smiles and responds, “You must be a Democrat.”
“I am, replies the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.”


5 posted on 09/13/2019 12:37:03 PM PDT by mplc51
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is there anything Democrat candidates don’t know? They even know exactly how many ambulances every town should have. They are the smartest people that God ever made.


6 posted on 09/13/2019 12:40:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No matter, truth over facts.


7 posted on 09/13/2019 12:40:39 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Beno and his equally misinformed co-nut cases have weaponized that horrid black day in Odessa, TX.....to where people are hard put to know what he is talking about. This feeble minded piece of milquetoast is an embarrassment to any political party.


8 posted on 09/13/2019 12:52:13 PM PDT by yoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s a little “wrong” when everyone else is a racist? It’s still a superior moral pedestal upon which to hoist oneself.


9 posted on 09/13/2019 12:52:31 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[ Fact Check: Beto O’Rourke ‘Absolutely Wrong’ on Ambulance Shortage After Texas Shootings ]

Unfortunately, all the fact-checking, truth, proof, etc. will not do a thing to a liberal once he or she or it has heard the lie. They will repeat that lie for years.

They are completely impervious to the truth in any form.

Because, Russian Collusion ‘n’ stuff, ya know.


10 posted on 09/13/2019 12:53:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joto won his election by default.All his opponents were under Federal indictment or likely to be.


11 posted on 09/13/2019 12:56:43 PM PDT by SanchoP
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Beta Boy is absolutely wrong about everything.


12 posted on 09/13/2019 1:00:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
She ought to be apologizing for is exploiting that enormous rack she was bestowed.

It's the only thing that makes her even moderately received and the majority of moderately breasted women of the world should be outraged at her “privilege”.

13 posted on 09/13/2019 1:12:56 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Wrong thread my FRiend.


14 posted on 09/13/2019 1:17:11 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: traderrob6

They’re not even real. First boob job around 1998 or so.


15 posted on 09/13/2019 1:20:03 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Menehune56
LOL, just realized that.....
16 posted on 09/13/2019 1:22:24 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How did this idiot even get elected to congress? His is district moon-bat heaven or something?

His father was a county judge on the take, his mother was running a business that was a front for money laundering, and his father-in-law was running a secretive real estate enterprise with members on both sides of the America-Mexico border. Somebody wanted an insider in Congress.

Various sites on the internets connect dots across the O'Rourke family that are not favorable to a Presidential run. Many of the sites are of dubious pedigree, but even a review of Snopes contains the major threads that the dots are connected through. There are even newspaper clippings that prove that the basic factual incidents occurred, if not the imputed motives or dot connections.

The allegations are that:

  1. His father, a county judge in El Paso, was on the take. He was pulled over one night and drugs were found in his car. Police destroyed the evidence, claiming it was planted (see the newspaper clip linked above). Violent crime increased dramatically during his tenure as a county judge, as evidenced by this local TV station report. Finally, his was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident, where he was run over by a pickup truck while bicycling.
  2. His now father-in-law William Sanders was involved in the Paso Del Norte Group, which also held properties on the other side of the border in he Ciudad Juarez area of Mexico. Beto/Robert was a councilman in El Paso at the time that the Paso Del Norte Group was forming, and refused to recuse himself from city council proceedings.
  3. His mother ran a furniture store suspected of laundering cartel drug money. From Snopes, "In 2010, Charlotte’s Inc., an El Paso furniture store company started by O’Rourke’s grandmother in 1951, was convicted of “structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements, a tax-related felony. The company was charged as a corporate entity, but the Congressman’s mother, Melissa O’Rourke, acted as its authorized representative... In total, Charlotte’s and its employees illegally restructured $630,000 in payments, all from one customer, in this way between May 2005 and October 2006. The identity of that customer is not known."

-PJ

17 posted on 09/13/2019 1:33:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47...”

My AR-15’s ready for you, punk ass boy.


18 posted on 09/13/2019 1:49:36 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like Biden and most other Pols he reads whatever his handlers put in front of him. If he does it correctly he gets another doggie treat or a shot of booze.


19 posted on 09/13/2019 2:16:43 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It was not a mistake what he said. He deliberately lied in an attempt to make his story sound better. The City of Odessa said that its ambulances responded to the shooting quickly.


20 posted on 09/13/2019 2:23:59 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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