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Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign. "I like the guy. He's entertaining, and he has some magic in him," O'Rourke explained a few years later. "Jesse brought more people into the voting booth, and I don't care who you are -- the more people that vote, the better off this country
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throwing him 70 feet (21 m) causing severe head injuries; he was pronounced dead at the scene. No charges were filed against the driver in connection with O'Rourke's death, but he was arrested for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court for a suspended license citation. O'Rourke's
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Trustees in 1972 and for a seat on the El Paso Community College Board of Trustees in 1976. A friend described him as unmistakably Irish American and he suspected it would be used against him in the mostly Mexican American electorate so he embraced it by campaigning on March 17, 1978, Saint
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February 1983 while O'Rourke was out of state on vacation, El Paso County Sheriff's deputies, who were installing a two-way radio in O'Rourke's vehicle, discovered a tied condom containing an off-white powder they believed to be either cocaine or heroin. A sheriff's captain ordered the substance
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From 1978 to 1982, he served as El Paso County commissioner and then from 1982 to 1986 served as El Paso County judge. O'Rourke and El Paso Mayor
Jonathan Rogers worked to consolidate some of the governments' services to try to save taxpayer money. O'Rourke did not seek re-election saying publicly
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Jasper), and John
Francis "Frank" O'Rourke, a former baseball player and then manager of the public relations department at Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECO). He had a half-sister from his mother's previous marriage. His great-grandfather, Bernard O'Rourke, was an
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Democratic to Republican citing his belief that the Democratic Party had lost touch with financial responsibility, he campaigned to for the Republican nomination for the
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destroyed. The incident did not come to light to either O'Rourke or the public until months later. In
October 1983, the captain was indicted by a grand jury on charges of official misconduct and tampering with evidence.
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