{"id":3606,"date":"2025-08-13T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:29:54","slug":"texas-court-blocks-beto-bribes-supporting-runaway-house-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court Blocks \u2018Beto Bribes\u2019 Supporting Runaway House Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en33.usnews.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MixCollage-08-Aug-2025-08-26-PM-1363-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23602\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A Texas district court judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order against Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke to stop what Attorney General Ken Paxton described as a \u201cmisleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201d The order stops O\u2019Rourke and his political group, Powered By People, from fundraising and expending funds to support Democrat House Representatives who fled the state to prevent the passage of congressional redistricting in the special session called by Governor Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Court finds that harm is imminent to the State, and if the Court does not issue the Temporary Restraining Order, the State will be irreparably injured,\u201d 348th Judicial District Court Judge Megan Fahey wrote in the court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cSpecifically, Defendants\u2019 fundraising conduct constitutes false, misleading, or deceptive acts under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Tex. Bus. &amp; Com. Code \u00a7\u00a7 17.46(a), (b)(2), (b)(5), (b)(7), and (b)(24) because Defendants are raising and utilizing political contributions from Texas consumers to pay for the personal expenses of Texas legislators, in violation of Texas law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Attorney General Paxton claimed victory following the issuance of the restraining order mere hours after filing. \u201cThe Beto Bribe buyouts that were bankrolling the runaway Democrats have been officially stopped,\u201d Paxton said in a written statement Friday evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople like Robert (O\u2019Rourke) believe Texas can be bought. Today, I stopped his deceptive financial influence scheme that attempted to deceive donors and subvert our constitutional process. They told me to \u2018come and take it,\u2019 so I did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas district court judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order against Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke to stop what Attorney General Ken Paxton described as a \u201cmisleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum. \u201d The order stops O\u2019Rourke and his political group, Powered By People, from fundraising and expending funds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}