After the blowback Democrats received for the Schumer Shutdown, you’d think they’d keep their distance from the scheme’s architect, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. But not Beto O’Rourke!
O’Rourke will be in Houston tomorrow morning for a big dollar fundraiser with Schumer and other Democrat candidates for Senate. While O’Rourke clearly needs all the help he can get in his long-shot 2018 Senate campaign, tying himself to Schumer so soon after the Schumer Shutdown will not go over well with folks in Texas.
“Beto O’Rourke raising campaign cash with Chuck Schumer will only serve to remind Texans that O’Rourke voted to shut down the federal government and deny health insurance to 8.9 million children as part of Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s partisan games,” said NRSC Communications Director Katie Martin. “O’Rourke’s blind loyalty to Washington Democrats like Schumer, who has been stalling disaster aid to Houston, shows that he will always put partisanship ahead of doing what’s best for Texas.”
Background:
“Democrats want to make sure that we have equal bargaining, and we are not going to allow things like disaster relief [to] go forward without discussing some of the other issues we care about,” said Minority Leader Schumer. (Floor Speech, 12/21/17)