Beto O'Rourke

2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate, former US Representative from Texas

A Representative from Texas; born in El Paso, El Paso County, Tex., September 26, 1972; graduated from El Paso High School; B.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1995; business owner; member of the El Paso, Tex., city council, 2005-2011; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress (January 3, 2013-present).

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Positions

Powered By People Texas-based grassoots group to help Democrats get elected; founded by Beto O'Rourke

• Founder/organizer (Dec '19→?)

Texas Organizing Project

• Canvasser / Endorsement

Donors

Open Society Foundations International grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros

• Donation/Grant · 100,000,000 USD (past)

Bobby Tudor Chairman and CEO, Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. LLC, Chairman of Greater Houston Partnership

• Political Donation · 250 USD (Jan 19 '18)*

Jeffrey A Bluestone A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor, UC San Francisco

• Donation/Grant · 100 USD (Oct 7 '18)

Risa J Lavizzo-Mourey Former President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 100 USD (Aug 28 '18→Nov 4 '18)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

• 6 contributions · 2,100 USD (Dec 12 '07→Oct 7 '08)

Beto O'Rourke 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate, former US Representative from Texas

• 2 contributions · 2,005 USD (Mar 21 '12→May 14 '12)

Pete Gallego US Representative from Texas

• 3 contributions · 2,000 USD (Sep 30 '12→Sep 30 '13)

Bill McCamley

• 1 contribution · 250 USD (Sep 28 '07)

Campaign Donors

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Joshua Bekenstein Managing director at Bain Capital

• 9 contributions · 24,300 USD (Mar 30 '18→Jun 30 '18)

Anita Bekenstein

• 7 contributions · 18,900 USD (Mar 31 '18→Jun 30 '18)

Bill Appleton CEO, Deseret International Forwarding - El Paso Texas

• 6 contributions · 15,600 USD (Feb 28 '12→May 1 '15)

Peter Frey Retired, NYC

• 7 contributions · 13,800 USD (Sep 30 '15→May 11 '18)

Phillip Harvey DKT International; Raytheon

• 5 contributions · 12,900 USD (Mar 22 '12→Aug 3 '15)

J Robert Brown Former president and CEO, Desert Eagle Distributing of El Paso

• 5 contributions · 12,700 USD (Aug 7 '12→May 27 '15)

Constance Britton Actor

• 3 contributions · 10,800 USD (Feb 13 '18)

David L desJardins Software engineer; one of the first 20 employees of Google

• 3 contributions · 10,800 USD (Dec 5 '17)

Joseph J Plumeri II Chairman and CEO of Willis Group

• 3 contributions · 10,800 USD (Sep 28 '17)

Woody L Hunt Hunt Building Co. - El Paso Texas

• 4 contributions · 10,600 USD (Mar 28 '13→Apr 20 '15)

Memberships

US House of Representatives lower house of the United States Congress

• Representative (Jan 3 '13→Jan 3 '19)

Democratic Party The U.S. Democratic Party

• Member

Family

Amy Sanders O'Rourke Wife of Texas congressman Beto O'Rouke; daughter of El Paso real estate investor William Sanders

• wife

Miscellaneous Relationships

Kelcy Warren Chairman, Energy Transfer Equity

• defamation lawsuit plaintiff