With a background playlist featuring Mexican-American Texas legend Selena and Bad Bunny, the #1 artist in the country, 574 people piled onto a Zoom call a week before Labor Day to mark the statewide launch of Latinos con Beto, Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s Latino organizing effort.
The call, which featured actor Eva Longoria riling up the troops and labor icon Dolores Huerta pledging to join O’Rourke in south Texas cities in September, was watched by an additional 40,000 people across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
O’Rourke, making one of his first appearances since a bacterial infection had sidelined him, spoke passionately on a wide range of issues including abortion, immigration, and ending “the schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline” for Latino students who are disproportionately suspended and expelled — all issues that his campaign believes he can win on in November…
