9/29/2019, 1:51 pm
[h1]‘Miss Whiskers will be fine': Beto O'Rourke jokes about threatening to kill a kitten[/h1]
Beto O'Rourke made fun of urgent, sky-is-falling, end-of-quarter fundraising pitches from his fellow 2020 Democrats by joking about threatening the life of a kitten.
"I am starting to run out of ways to show how important this deadline is," the former Texas congressman wrote in an email to supporters on Saturday with the subject line "Miss Whiskers." "Maybe I could do a Facebook live stream with a kitten in hand and say, 'You know, we wouldn't want anything to happen to this kitten now would we… Send your $5 now and Miss Whiskers will be fine.'
"To be clear, we're not planning on harming any kittens," O'Rourke clarified. "But we do need your help."
O'Rourke bought up the same joke hypothetical at the Texas Tribune's TribFest in Austin on Saturday, referencing fundraising pitches from his presidential primary rivals New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro. Booker has warned that he will drop out of the race if he does not meet his $1.7 million goal, and Castro said that he could drop out if he does not meet the qualification standards for the November Democratic presidential primary debate.
"Saying, 'Hey, if you do not give me $1.7 million, I'm leaving the race.' Or, 'If I don't qualify for this next debate stage, I'm gone.'
You know, it's kind of raising the ante, or the bar, for how we compete for these dollars," O'Rourke said. "I could maybe do a Facebook live stream with a kitten and say, you know, 'Now, we don't want anything to happen to the kitten.'"
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Beto O'Rourke made fun of urgent, sky-is-falling, end-of-quarter fundraising pitches from his fellow 2020 Democrats by joking about threatening the life of a kitten.
"I am starting to run out of ways to show how important this deadline is," the former Texas congressman wrote in an email to supporters on Saturday with the subject line "Miss Whiskers." "Maybe I could do a Facebook live stream with a kitten in hand and say, 'You know, we wouldn't want anything to happen to this kitten now would we… Send your $5 now and Miss Whiskers will be fine.'
"To be clear, we're not planning on harming any kittens," O'Rourke clarified. "But we do need your help."
O'Rourke bought up the same joke hypothetical at the Texas Tribune's TribFest in Austin on Saturday, referencing fundraising pitches from his presidential primary rivals New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro. Booker has warned that he will drop out of the race if he does not meet his $1.7 million goal, and Castro said that he could drop out if he does not meet the qualification standards for the November Democratic presidential primary debate.
"Saying, 'Hey, if you do not give me $1.7 million, I'm leaving the race.' Or, 'If I don't qualify for this next debate stage, I'm gone.'
You know, it's kind of raising the ante, or the bar, for how we compete for these dollars," O'Rourke said. "I could maybe do a Facebook live stream with a kitten and say, you know, 'Now, we don't want anything to happen to the kitten.'"
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