Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) will begin his 12 day, more than 2,100 mile Keeping the Lights On road trip on Friday.
O’Rourke will start in El Paso before going to Odessa, Abilene, Wichita Falls, Denton, Tyler, Waco, Austin and more than a dozen other communities.
O’Rourke is scheduled to be in Odessa at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Woodson Park Community Building Park.
The press release detailed the O’Rourke’s statewide drive marks the one-year anniversary of the preventable grid collapse and the deadly crisis that followed as hundreds of Texans tragically lost their lives and millions more were stranded for days without electricity, heat, and running water.
O’Rourke in 12 days will travel more than 2,100 miles across Texas that will take him to more than 20 cities and towns.
The Democratic gubernatorial challenger to Gov. Greg Abbott will hold a dozen public events, the press release stated. O’Rourke will spotlight how Abbott failed to prevent this crisis despite repeated warnings, highlight how the Governor has used the year since to saddle ratepayers with higher monthly utility costs and take million-dollar campaign checks from the energy executives who got rich as loved ones froze to death, and outline the Beto for Texas campaign’s brighter vision for fixing the grid, bringing utility costs down, and keeping the lights on.
