{"id":132765,"date":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:00:09","slug":"texas-judge-halts-beto-orourkes-fundraising-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132765\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas judge halts Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s fundraising for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, halting Beto O\u2019Rourke&#8217;s fundraising efforts for Democratic lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p>The decision came after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the former Democratic congressman and his political action committee, accusing them of misleading donors to cover expenses for lawmakers who fled Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED |<a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/judge-blocks-beto-orourke-from-funding-texas-democrats-fleeing-state-over-redistricting-san-antonio-tarrant-county-powered-by-people-paxton-gerrymandering-abbott\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/judge-blocks-beto-orourke-from-funding-texas-democrats-fleeing-state-over-redistricting-san-antonio-tarrant-county-powered-by-people-paxton-gerrymandering-abbott\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Judge blocks Beto O\u2019Rourke from funding Texas Democrats fleeing state over redistricting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke had been raising funds for Texas Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a redistricting map. The judge&#8217;s order prevents him from raising money intended for these lawmakers for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/texas-files-complaints-arrest-of-absent-lawmakers-in-california-gerrymandering-ken-paxston-dustin-burrows-legislature-quorum-break#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/texas-files-complaints-arrest-of-absent-lawmakers-in-california-gerrymandering-ken-paxston-dustin-burrows-legislature-quorum-break#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas files complaints to arrest absent Democratic lawmakers in California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her ruling, the judge stated that the block is &#8220;in the public interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, halting Beto O\u2019Rourke&#8217;s fundraising efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,23231,7033,12735,18880,80433,22204,7202,7203,37962,358,80432,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-132765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-beto-orourke","tag-democrats","tag-fundraising","tag-ken-paxton","tag-political-action-committee","tag-redistricting","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-temporary-restraining-order","tag-texas","tag-texas-judge","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115001060583691403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}