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Beto O’Rourke

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Beto has earned our respect with a high-energy, upbeat, people-powered campaign. He's out-hustling and out-fundraising Ted Cruz and inspiring Texas Democrats up and down the ballot, all without taking a dime from corporate PACs -- especially fossil fuel corporate PACs.

At Climate Hawks Vote, we pride ourselves on winning most of our races, because you donā€™t build political power for the climate movement by losing hopeless, longshot races. Early on, most pundits didnā€™t give Beto a chance. Heā€™s running against Ted Cruz?!? In deep-red Texas?!? But Beto has earned respect with a high-energy, upbeat, people-powered campaign, the latest polls show a very competitive race, and clearly Ted Cruz himself sounds nervous when he says that ā€œDemocrats will crawl over broken glass to vote this November.ā€ We wouldnā€™t issue this endorsement if we didnā€™t think Beto has a real chance to beat Ted Cruz.

And weā€™re picky about who we endorse — we donā€™t endorse unless weā€™re satisfied that the candidate is a climate hawk. (We wonā€™t pretend to you that any pro-coal opponent of the Clean Power Plan deserves support from the climate hawk community.)

Beto has been an outspoken advocate for wind and solar — two abundant resources in Texas. And, consistent with his vow not to take corporate PAC money, heā€™s signed the pledge not to take fossil fuel PAC money.Ā 

One last point — Ted Cruz is the dictionary definition of a fossil fueled politician. In the Senate, he writes bills called the ā€œAmerican Energy Renaissance Actā€ (S. 791, 115th Congress; S. 2170, 114th Congress) that really should be called ā€œDrill Baby Drill Act.ā€ Heā€™s trying to undermine the Endangered Species Act for the benefit of his donors (S. 2778, 115th Congress). And what donors they are — $2.7 million from the oil and gas industry over a five-year career. Cruz is simply a mouthpiece for the oil industry, pushing their agenda in the Senate.

Let’s show that people power can beat oil money.

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