Did Beto O’Rourke’s Staff Use Campaign Money to Help Migrants in El Paso?

We sent the O’Rourke campaign a set of questions related to the footage. In response, Chris Evans, a spokesperson for the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 16th District, directed us to remarks he offered to the Texas Tribune, in which he acknowledged that some campaign staffers had ‘taken it upon themselves’ to donate around $300 worth of supplies to a local charity helping migrants:

“Staff members took it upon themselves to use prepaid cards from one of our more than 700 field offices to buy baby wipes, diapers, water, fruit and granola bars, and donate them to a local humanitarian nonprofit (Annunciation House) that helps mothers and children in the community,” O’Rourke spokesman Chris Evans said in a statement. “The value was under $300 and it will be appropriately reported to the FEC [Federal Election Commission].”

How dare he... donate to charities that support desperate migrant mothers and their children.

The GOP is the party of evangelical Christians... I'm an atheist, but I don't seem to remember Jesus saying "Blessed is he who builds the wall, and withholds charity from 'illegals.'" Then again, I've never known evangelicals to be particularly "Christ-like."

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