A man masquerading as a Beto O’Rourke campaign worker was arrested for breaking into a home in Austin and stealing a popsicle.
According to the Austin-American Statesman, James Bradford Gibbon II was clad in Beto merch and slurping his frozen confection when a woman walked in on him lounging in her kitchen. Her son called 911.
While making the rounds and clutching the melting treat, Gibbon allegedly riffled through a wallet and briefcase and tried to break into an iPad.
He has been charged with burglary of a residence, a second-degree felony. The O’Rourke campaign confirmed that Gibbon was never in its employ.
I wonder if this guy will get his burglary charge dropped the way Beto got his burglary charge dropped?
I think it’s more important to know if he did this to defame Beto purposely.
Back in the day, I worked a farmer’s market downtown Minneapolis. Late summer, 1992 I think, a dude came up asking for campaign contributions, he looked homeless and had campaign buttons pinned all over his jacket. I looked a little closer and they were all different parties and not even current candidates. It looked like he’d put a lot of work into it so I gave him a couple bucks, I would have given him a Popsicle if I had one.
O’Rourke released an ambitious and detailed proposal for overhauling our entire immigration system yesterday. Maybe TPM could do a piece on that?
The plan touches on everything from asylum laws to Dreamers to a path to status and citizenship for the 11 million living the shadows to family unification to relations with our southern neighbors to raising the caps for visas to dealing with the backlog of 800,000 applicants waiting for their green cards.
Was this Ted Cruz, by any chance?