Beto compares his job in Congress to charitable giving

Democratic former darling for presidential candidate Robert F. "Beto" O'Rourke compared his job in Congress to a charitable contribution, like actually giving money to charity without having to give actual money. He said this on Tuesday in response to a critic of his paltry charitable giving.

O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman has been the receptacle of ire over his 2017 tax return. He and his heiress wife Amy donated $1,166 from their $366,455 adjusted gross income that year to charity, totaling just 0.3 percent of their income.

A town hall attendee at the University of Virginia asked Beto why her sister, a recent college graduate, made far less than he and his wife did, but gave more to charity.

His answer really sucked:

"I've served in public office since 2005. I do my best to contribute to the success of my community, my state and now, of my country. There are ways that I do this that are measurable. And there are ways that I do this that are immeasurable."

Except when it comes to actually contributing to charity.

O'Rourke added there were some charities they donated to which they hadn't recorded and itemized to write off on their taxes, such as a homeless man to whom they provided a warm and friendly cup of Starbucks grande vento latte cappoconchino sapporino. "At six buck a cup, that's darned generous," he told the questioner as he muttered an expletive under his breath that starts with the letter "b."

He went on to say he was sacrificing at that moment by being out on the campaign trail rather than home with his family and having his wife have all the fun taking care of the kids and eating what looks like green avocado that Beto gave her.

"I will tell you, I'm doing everything that I can right now, spending this time with you—not with our kiddos, not back home in El Paso—because I want to sacrifice everything to make sure that we meet this moment of truth with everything that we've got," O'Rourke said, being the schmuck he will never see himself as.

While O'Rourke's continued to fundraise above his pay grade and qualifications, he's been criticized for having a lack of substance, lack of ideas, and also been hit from the left for taking more centrist and corporatist positions in the past and eating dirt.

Beto O'Rourke is the idos of "empty suit" and will probably be nothing more than an asterisk in this campaign.


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