Former Texas Congressman and current Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke will bring his campaign tour to southwest Iowa and Atlantic this weekend. O’Rourke is expected to arrive at Sunnyside Park’s Camblin Addition Shelter at 1:30-p.m. Sunday, May 5th, for a “Town Hall with Beto O’Rourke in Atlantic”. The event venue will be open at 1-p.m.

Former TX Congressman Beto O’Rourke

O’Rourke began his political career volunteering for several campaigns in Texas, before serving as a city councilman in his home town of El Paso, from 2005 to 2011. He then served three terms in the US House of Representatives until 2017, when he decided to run for the US Senate. He gained national attention during that election, when he set a record for most votes cast for a Democrat in Texas history.

O’Rourke is also a businessman and entrepreneur, having started his own internet services and software company, still run by his family in El Paso. His campaign has four main themes: immigration reform, health care, climate change, and fixing the political system.

O’Rourke and his wife Amy have three children, and reside in his home town of El Paso, TX.