"There's so much confusion, I can't get no relief..." Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower
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Well, now we guess the wild rumors that we heard have turned out to be true.
Someone we thought was lying told us excitedly that there had been a campaign rally for Democratic Party candidates Lali Betancourt who's running against Sylvia Garza-Perez for Cameron County Clerk and Rigo Bocanegra running for County Commissioner for Precinct 2 in the March 6 primary.
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Apparently the event took place in Santa Rosa this Saturday and was plastered all over the Internet by numerous people.
The delicious rumor was that the two candidates and their supporters (which by the way includes Mario Saenz, the brother of Luis V. Saenz, Cameron County District Attorney) have pledged their support for former county judge Carlos Cascos, who is a Republican running unopposed in his party's primary.
(D.A. Saenz, by the way, supported his former Public Integrity Unit supervisor Victor Cortez for sheriff against Democrat Omar Lucio. He got trounced, of course, but this goes a bit deeper than it appears.)
Confused? So were we.
Now, we know that Mario has evolved into a politiquero par excellence and has had a hand in shaping several local elections. And the Betancourts have been yellow-dog Democrats since the late Adolfo Betancourt ran for office way back when. In fact, Mario s running for precinct chairman where he votes. What gives here?
David, for example, is the Cameron County Treasurer and ran as a Democrat. Laura, his sister, is also a candidate in this year's election, and is also running in the Democratic Party primary.
Are we to assume that "Team Saenz" has parted ways with the party at least on the general election, if not the primary? After all, there is only one other Republican race on the ballot with local candidates, and that is the Texas School Board Of Education race between Tad Hasse and Eric Garza.
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It appears that blood is thicker than mud, as Sly Stone used to sing. But it makes us wonder, as Costello used to ask: Who's on first?
Then someone reminded us that it was Saenz who swore in Cascos the last time he won the race for county judge before accepting Gov. Greg Abbott's appointment as Texas Secretary of State?
Democratic County Chair Amber Medina tell your secretary to comb through your files to see if the two candidates and the DA signed the loyalty pledge to support Democrat candidates. On the other hand, that shade of gray might make you look attractively mature.
And to think that this is the home county of the Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Cascos nemesis. We'd ask to see if his hair turned gray but it might be hard to get a sufficient sample to tell.
Well, now we guess the wild rumors that we heard have turned out to be true.
Someone we thought was lying told us excitedly that there had been a campaign rally for Democratic Party candidates Lali Betancourt who's running against Sylvia Garza-Perez for Cameron County Clerk and Rigo Bocanegra running for County Commissioner for Precinct 2 in the March 6 primary.
Apparently the event took place in Santa Rosa this Saturday and was plastered all over the Internet by numerous people.The delicious rumor was that the two candidates and their supporters (which by the way includes Mario Saenz, the brother of Luis V. Saenz, Cameron County District Attorney) have pledged their support for former county judge Carlos Cascos, who is a Republican running unopposed in his party's primary.
(D.A. Saenz, by the way, supported his former Public Integrity Unit supervisor Victor Cortez for sheriff against Democrat Omar Lucio. He got trounced, of course, but this goes a bit deeper than it appears.)
Confused? So were we.
Now, we know that Mario has evolved into a politiquero par excellence and has had a hand in shaping several local elections. And the Betancourts have been yellow-dog Democrats since the late Adolfo Betancourt ran for office way back when. In fact, Mario s running for precinct chairman where he votes. What gives here?
David, for example, is the Cameron County Treasurer and ran as a Democrat. Laura, his sister, is also a candidate in this year's election, and is also running in the Democratic Party primary.
Are we to assume that "Team Saenz" has parted ways with the party at least on the general election, if not the primary? After all, there is only one other Republican race on the ballot with local candidates, and that is the Texas School Board Of Education race between Tad Hasse and Eric Garza.
It appears that blood is thicker than mud, as Sly Stone used to sing. But it makes us wonder, as Costello used to ask: Who's on first?
Then someone reminded us that it was Saenz who swore in Cascos the last time he won the race for county judge before accepting Gov. Greg Abbott's appointment as Texas Secretary of State?
Democratic County Chair Amber Medina tell your secretary to comb through your files to see if the two candidates and the DA signed the loyalty pledge to support Democrat candidates. On the other hand, that shade of gray might make you look attractively mature.
And to think that this is the home county of the Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Cascos nemesis. We'd ask to see if his hair turned gray but it might be hard to get a sufficient sample to tell.