AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke will travel to 20 cities and towns across Texas over 12 days to mark the anniversary of the deadly February winter storms and power outages, his campaign announced Monday.
The trip — dubbed the "Keeping the Lights On" tour — will start in El Paso on Friday and end in Houston Feb. 15, the anniversary of the first day of the deadly freeze. O'Rourke will stop in Abilene, Wichita Falls, Austin, Corpus Christi and at least six other cities to speak about the outages and his plan for improving the reliability of the state's power grid.
Since launching his campaign for governor, O'Rourke has been a vocal critic of the state's response to the near catastrophic failure of the state's power grid, arguing that Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders have failed to take steps to secure the grid and prevent future widespread outages.
