Beto takes early Democratic straw poll

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Business career (1995–2005)
Following college, O'Rourke worked as a live-in nanny for a family in Manhattan, then at Hedley's Humpers as an art mover, before working with his uncle at a startup Internet service provider.[16][36] During this time, he fell into a depression, unsure of what to do with his life.[16] However, his friends Stevens and Klahr (along with his friend from Columbia University, David Guinn) joined him in New York, and they rented and renovated an inexpensive 2,000-square-foot factory loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[16] Interested in the publishing industry, he found a job as a proofreader at H. W. Wilson Company in the Bronx, and wrote short stories and songs in his free time.[18][16] He began to miss his family and lifestyle in El Paso,[16] and returned to the city in 1998.[37]

After coming home, O'Rourke wanted to tackle the "brain-drain" of El Paso, or the exodus of youth because of lack of opportunity.[16] The following year, he co-founded Stanton Street Technology, an Internet services and software company that develops websites and software.[36][38] His wife, Amy, operates the business as of March 2017.[39] For a few years, the company also published an online (and briefly print) newspaper, also called Stanton Street, that O'Rourke modeled on alternative periodicals like The Village Voice and New York Press.[16] O'Rourke was involved with civic organizations and nonprofit groups such as El Paso's Rotary Club chapter, United Way branch, and Center Against Sexual and Family Violence. He also sat on the boards of the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and of the Institute for Policy and Economic Development at UTEP.[40]

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Their ideas are absolutely terrible for the working class (or tax payers in general).

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He says nothing

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More like the whiter version of Obama.

He's an empty suit with nothing but platitudes.

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Not suprised. He’ll compete

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