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Beto O'Rourke officially responds to oil pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren's defamation lawsuit
Beto has filed an answer to Kelcy Warren's bogus lawsuit https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/politics/beto-o-rourke-officially-responds-to-oil-pipeline-billionaire-kelcy-warren-s-defamation-lawsuit/article_53b217ad-bb07-5cea-86f6-db3fcd30360b.html
Democratic nominee for governor Beto O’Rourke on Monday reaffirmed that he wouldn’t let a defamation lawsuit brought by billionaire energy executive Kelcy Warrant “silence” him from telling Texans how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s allowed energy companies to “profit off last year’s power grid failure.”
In a legal filing in San Saba County, O’Rourke said he welcomed the chance to have the case against him unfold in view of Texas residents and voters. His filing did not seek a dismissal of the lawsuit, but denied all of the allegations against him.
“Defendant denies each and every, all and singular, the allegations asserted by Plaintiff in his Original Petition and demand strict proof thereof by a preponderance of the evidence as required by the laws and Constitution of the State of Texas,” lawyers for O’Rourke said in the filing that was due at midnight Tuesday.
O’Rourke also requested a trial by jury, with a venue moved from San Saba County to El Paso County, where O’Rourke lives. He said that Warren is registered to vote in Dallas County, not San Saba where the suit was filed. He said the change of venue would help him publicize his crusade against Abbott and energy industry officials.
In a legal filing in San Saba County, O’Rourke said he welcomed the chance to have the case against him unfold in view of Texas residents and voters. His filing did not seek a dismissal of the lawsuit, but denied all of the allegations against him.
“Defendant denies each and every, all and singular, the allegations asserted by Plaintiff in his Original Petition and demand strict proof thereof by a preponderance of the evidence as required by the laws and Constitution of the State of Texas,” lawyers for O’Rourke said in the filing that was due at midnight Tuesday.
O’Rourke also requested a trial by jury, with a venue moved from San Saba County to El Paso County, where O’Rourke lives. He said that Warren is registered to vote in Dallas County, not San Saba where the suit was filed. He said the change of venue would help him publicize his crusade against Abbott and energy industry officials.
Warren may have committed voter fraud by not filing the lawsuit in Dallas where he is registered to vote
Chad Dunn is evidently defending Beto. Chad was one of the lead counsel in the lawsuit that gutted the Texas voter id law.
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