[POLITI] Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a Texas district court judge to jail former Rep. Beto O'Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
over his fundraising pitches connected to the state's intensifying redistricting battle.
Paxton's request accused the Texas Democrat of violating a court order that the judge, Tarrant County's Megan Fahey, issued last week that barred fundraising by O'Rourke and his nonprofit Powered by People intended to bankroll the efforts by Texas Democratic politicians to derail the redistricting effort.
In support of his claim, he highlighted a remark O'Rourke made at a Saturday rally — a day after Fahey's order — saying ''there are no refs in this game. Fuck the rules.''
But an attorney for O'Rourke says Paxton's characterization of O'Rourke's remark was an ''outright lie.'' O'Rourke's comment, she noted, was a reference to the broader nationwide fight over redistricting — a call for Democratic states to counteract Texas' redistricting push by undertaking their own partisan redrawing of political boundaries.
''In their zeal I guess to intimidate a political rival, they are actually lying to the court,'' said O'Rourke's attorney, Mimi Marziani, who said she would quickly alert the court to the context of O'Rourke's comments and her intention to seek sanctions against Paxton. 
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