Veronica Escobar's file

In a tweet critical of Perry, O’Rourke charged the governor with falsely saying car bombs are going off in El Paso, which O'Rourke called the safest U.S. city.

O’Rourke was time traveling.

El Paso's county judge said the city is the safest burg of its size in the country. That sounded familiar--and flawed.