How Beto O'Rourke went from punk drummer and nanny to 2020 presidential candidate via CNBCMakeIt
On Thursday, Beto O'Rourke finally made his 2020 plans official, potentially setting him on a path to become America's first punk-rock president.
But his grassroots campaign that inspired a strong turnout among Texas Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections and his ability to connect younger voters spurred many of his supporters to call for O'Rourke to make a run at the White House — a call he finally answered this week with a cover story in Vanity Fair announcing his presidential ambitions.
Born and raised in upper middle-class family in El Paso, O'Rourke went to college in New York City at Columbia University, where he majored in English and graduated in 1995. In 1993, Foss self-released an album called"The El Paso Pussycats." Rolling Stone even put a track from the album online last year and the Texas GOP tweeted a copy of the album's cover, seemingly to mock O'Rourke, though the move backfired.One of O'Rourke's Foss bandmates, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, later won a Grammy in 2008 with the band Mars Volta and told the Dallas Observer in 2017 that O'Rourke was a mentor:"The way I make art, I learned it from Beto.
O'Rourke worked a handful of different jobs, including working as an art mover and he took a part-time job at his uncle's internet-service provider business. At one point, though, during a particularly crowded subway commute from Brooklyn to a job as a proofreader at a publishing house in the Bronx,"I just had this vision of being in my truck with the windows down," he told The New York Times, referring to his upbringing in Texas.
Today, O'Rourke has three children between the ages of 8 and 12, and his family still lives in El Paso, where he has a music room, not necessarily to play punk music, but where he and his children can jam on drums, guitars and a keyboard.
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