{"id":9191,"date":"2018-10-12T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:04:38","slug":"beto-orourke-willie-nelson-rally-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9191","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke, Willie Nelson Rally Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Country legend Willie Nelson and his band during a free concert in support of Beto O\u2019Rourke. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Beto O\u2019Rourke, a Democrat who is trying to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, talks to his supporters in Austin. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

Senatorial candidate Beto Rourke is getting support from legendary country icon Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Sept. 29, O\u2019Rourke addressed a crowd of thousands at Lakeshores Auditorium in Austin and was followed by Nelson and his band. The group played some of Nelson\u2019s oldest tunes such as \u201cOn The Road Again,\u201d \u201cMammas Don\u2019t Let You Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys,\u201d and, in his own words, the latest song he wrote, \u201cVote \u2018Em Out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpts from the tune goes like this, \u201cVote \u2018em Out! And when they\u2019re gone we will sing and dance and shout. If you don\u2019t who\u2019s in there, vote \u2018em out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you Beto,\u201d Nelson, who was wearing a T-shirt with the candidate first name on it, said at the end of the free concert attended by thousands of diehard supporters of O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n

The senatorial hopeful, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, used the occasion to attack the policies of the Trump administration and to ask for the people\u2019s support in his quest to join the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke said people should be defined by their ambitions and by their aspirations, not by building walls and by describing the press as enemy of the people.<\/p>\n

His message was based on populism, touching gay, lesbian and women rights, health care, teachers pay raises, climate change and the political establishment among other things.<\/p>\n

The three-hour long concert took place under threatening clouds as heavy showers fell over most of the city throughout the day.<\/p>\n

The stage\u2019s backdrop was Austin\u2019s skyscrapers. Facing the band was a crowd of thousands many of whom were holding and waving a \u201cBeto\u201d sign distributed while other bands played before O\u2019Rourke spoke.<\/p>\n

Some in the crowd said they were there because they wanted to show support for O\u2019Rourke while others said they wanted to enjoy the music and see the Red Headed Stranger as the smell of marijuana permeated throughout the night.<\/p>\n

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Supporters of Beto O\u2019Rourke holding signs of their candidate. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN Senatorial candidate Beto Rourke is getting support from legendary country icon Willie Nelson. On Saturday, Sept. 29, O\u2019Rourke addressed a crowd of thousands at Lakeshores Auditorium in Austin and was followed by Nelson and his band. The group played some of Nelson\u2019s oldest tunes such as \u201cOn The Road Again,\u201d \u201cMammas Don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}