O'Rourke reverses course, rejects big fossil fuel donations
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is pledging not to take large donations from the fossil fuel industry ” an about-face from his star-making run for Senate in oil-rich Texas last year when he was one of the top candidates backed by the sector.O’Rourke announced late Wednesday that he’d signed a no-donation-over-$200 pledge from oil-and-gas and coal company executives and outside political groups. Environmental activists had long pressured the former […]
