Beto O’Rourke’s Campaign Owes $20,000 to El Paso Police Officers

Over the weekend it was reported that Beto O’Rourke’s campaign has still not paid the El Paso Police Department for the overtime hours officers put in working Beto’s campaign launch. El Paso Police officers are currently owed nearly $21,000 for 675 overtime hours that the officers worked for Beto’s March 30th event.

Until the campaign pays for the hours, the taxpayers are footing the bill. If the campaign does not pay by May 24th, they will incur an additional penalty.

Watch the local TV report from NBC KTSM 9 in El Paso: HERE.

O’Rourke Campaign Has Not Paid El Paso Police Officers for Campaign Launch

Washington Free Beacon

Former Congressman Robert Francis O’Rourke‘s presidential campaign has yet to pay El Paso police officers nearly $21,000 for the 675 hours of overtime they put in during his campaign launch on March 30, local TV station KTSM reports.

So far, taxpayers have been footing the bill, and the city of El Paso warns that the O’Rourke campaign could owe more if it does not pay by the May 24 deadline.

“They have to come and pay the bill. There is a fee assessed if they don’t pay by a certain amount of time, but that’s regulated by the state. So we will email and make phone calls to remind them that,” Laura Cruz-Acosta, an El Paso city official told KTSM.

According to Cruz-Acosta, the city has already been in communication with the O’Rourke campaign. KTSM has also reached out to the O’Rourke campaign, but has not received a response.

Read the full article here.