As part of his campaign tour across Texas, El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke stopped in Lubbock on Sunday evening for a town hall meeting. The U.S. Senatorial candidate for the democratic party in Texas, hit on many topics making headlines right now including healthcare, immigration, and education.
The beginning of the town hall involved O’Rourke’s stance on immigration and border security.
“It can mean that we lead the way as the most diverse state in the union. Not just protect our dreamers from deportation, but make sure they are contributing to their full potential as U.S. citizens and not at the price of their parents deportation or a two thousand mile wall or militarizing the border or ending family migration as we know it in this country. We can do that,” said O’Rourke at the town hall at Texas Tech University.
When addressing universal quality healthcare, O’Rourke spoke on making it more affordable and guaranteed for everyone.
“That’s going to be very expensive, but its going to be a lot less expensive than the way we are delivering care now.”
O’Rourke also spoke on education reform, saying every young individual in the West Texas region should have the opportunity for a “world class education.”
Ultimately, O’Rourke says the town hall was an opportunity to hear the voices of West Texas.
“We were listening to farmers, to public school teachers, to folks who were trying to make it work in a smaller community, who sometimes don’t get the resources, the attention, the focus that it deserves,” he said.
His opponent Senator Ted Cruz, just finished his “Tough as Texas” tour, as he seeks re-election. He made 12 stops in three days including visits to Midland, Amarillo, and Wichita Falls.
