In Houston, Beto focuses on Abbott's CPS trafficking scandal

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke visited Houston on Saturday for a town hall in Spring Branch.

Speaking to attendees at the Lazy Oaks Beer Garden, O’Rourke talked about his desire to raise teacher pay, connect the Texas electrical grid to the rest of the nation, stop the governor’s attacks on transgender children, and eliminate the student debt of nurses and pay them more to address a statewide staffing shortage.

The latter elicited an angry response from one hidden protestor in the audience who shouted at O’Rourke and accused him of liking beer (?). They were promptly ejected from the bar, but not before another attendee splashed a glass of beer on them.

The former El Paso congressman especially focused on the issue-plagued Texas Department of Family Services, where a federal judge has lost confidence in Texas authorities to investigate a Bastrop foster care facility for sexual abuse and child tracking.

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