Beto O’Rourke is defending the F-bomb he dropped Wednesday night time whereas confronting a heckler who he stated was laughing throughout his remarks in regards to the Uvalde mass taking pictures that killed 19 elementary faculty college students and two lecturers.

The incident occurred throughout a rally in Mineral Wells as O’Rourke started speaking about the necessity to curb mass shootings just like the one which occurred Could 24 at Robb Elementary College. A person within the crowd may very well be seen and heard laughing as O’Rourke talked about Uvalde, prompting the Democratic nominee for governor to reply with an expletive.

“It could be humorous to you, motherf—–, nevertheless it’s not humorous to me,” O’Rourke stated to the heckler.

The second induced a stir on social media, and the Democrat’s marketing campaign addressed it.

“There’s nothing humorous about 19 youngsters being shot to dying of their school rooms, and there’s nothing okay about refusing to behave so it doesn’t occur once more,” stated Chris Evans, O’Rourke’s chief spokesman.

In a tweet after the Mineral Wells rally, O’Rourke defended his stance.

“Nothing extra critical to me than getting justice for the households in Uvalde and stopping this from ever taking place once more,” he tweeted.

Mark Miner, the chief spokesman for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, stated Thursday that the Mineral Wells heckler was “not affiliated in any manner” with the governor’s reelection marketing campaign.

Although O’Rourke was criticized for utilizing expletives on the marketing campaign path throughout his race in opposition to Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018, the Mineral Wells crowd applauded wildly after the second Wednesday night time.

It wasn’t the primary time he had an change with a heckler over Uvalde, both. He addressed somebody laughing at an occasion in Snyder final month when Uvalde got here up.

O’Rourke, a former El Paso congressman, is operating for governor in opposition to incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The Uvalde bloodbath has been a flashpoint within the marketing campaign, with feelings excessive over mass shootings in El Paso and elsewhere in Texas. Throughout a information convention after the taking pictures, O’Rourke confronted Abbott and was escorted out of the room.

The complete video of the city corridor on this tweet contains the express language that will offend some.