Flashback: Hispanic Caucus Refuses Bobby ‘Beto’ O’Rourke Membership Because He Lacks Hispanic Heritage

Amazing.

Back in July 2013 Rep. Bobby “Beto” O’Rourke tried to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the House of Representatives.

But the Hispanic Caucus refused to let him join saying he lacked Hispanic heritage.


Bobby “Beto” O’Rourke

Fast forward to 2018 — And Beto O’Rourke is still a pretender and now is running for the US Senate.

The Texas Tribune reported:

When El Paso voters elected Robert “Beto” O’Rourke to Congress last year, his supporters said they chose a fresh and progressive voice to champion issues critical to the border community.

But what they lost was a seat on an influential caucus whose members have recently met with President Obama on issues like immigration reform, border security and health care.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a 26-member group established in 1976 and currently chaired by U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Edinburg, includes as its goals “voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,” according to the organization’s mission statement. It also includes task forces on civil rights, education and labor, and diversity and inclusion.

O’Rourke, whose nickname is popular among Latinos, is not a member because he lacks Hispanic heritage.

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