By Juan Montoya
It's Nov. 6, 2018, and there are 74 days left before the Nov. 6 general election.
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By now, in most other election years, the Democratic party candidate and the Republican challenger would already be at each other's throats through newspaper and television ads reminding the voters of their past sins and peccadilloes.
But in today's age of social media, candidates are finding that using it curtails their campaign costs and reaches a more diverse audience than they would with conventional media. And they hope that those social media consumers will turn out to vote come November.
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Meanwhile, the advent of social media has introduced the proxy candidate supporters who are ready and willing to diss their candidate's opponent, simply because it costs nothing to post something on their facebook accounts or on other blogs and websites.
Anyway, the cyber trash talk is on in earnest, and everything is fair game in the days leading up to the Great Encounter in November.
A Cascos supporter was reaching for this type of "trash talk" when he sent us a photo saying that Cascos' opponent, Eddie Treviño was getting "trashy" by placing his signs next to trash cans in Combes. You figure that one out.
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Such was the case recently when Edward Vincent Barron, the son of Cameron County County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez took on the Carlos and Hector Cascos tandem.
He was answered by Cameron County Republican Chair Morgan Graham and Carlos before his brother Hector chipped in. Both Sylvia and her son are avid supporters of Cameron County Eddie Treviño for his reelection.
The "dialogue" follows:
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It's Nov. 6, 2018, and there are 74 days left before the Nov. 6 general election.
But in today's age of social media, candidates are finding that using it curtails their campaign costs and reaches a more diverse audience than they would with conventional media. And they hope that those social media consumers will turn out to vote come November.
Meanwhile, the advent of social media has introduced the proxy candidate supporters who are ready and willing to diss their candidate's opponent, simply because it costs nothing to post something on their facebook accounts or on other blogs and websites.Anyway, the cyber trash talk is on in earnest, and everything is fair game in the days leading up to the Great Encounter in November.
A Cascos supporter was reaching for this type of "trash talk" when he sent us a photo saying that Cascos' opponent, Eddie Treviño was getting "trashy" by placing his signs next to trash cans in Combes. You figure that one out.
Such was the case recently when Edward Vincent Barron, the son of Cameron County County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez took on the Carlos and Hector Cascos tandem.He was answered by Cameron County Republican Chair Morgan Graham and Carlos before his brother Hector chipped in. Both Sylvia and her son are avid supporters of Cameron County Eddie Treviño for his reelection.
The "dialogue" follows:
