GARZA BIGGEST INVESTOR IN JUDICIAL RACES, ADOBBATI 0(?)

The rest of the candidates fall in between these two. Gabby Garcia, in the 138th District race has reported spending the least with $19,327.67 in expenditures and $22,215.00 in contributions.

Unbelievably, of all the candidates, Sorola's opponent Ricardo Adobbati, municipal judge of Rancho Viejo, is reporting that he has spent noting, nada, zilch on his campaign during that period.

How can that be?

On signage alone, he has had to have spent $10,000s. The TEC takes these reports very seriously and has fined some candidates for not reporting their expenditures correctly. There is also another red flag in Adobbati's report. He lists a Carlos Flores from Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico as making a $500 cash donation August 26, 2019.

If by any chance Flores is a foreign national, this may raise the interest of TEC investigators. And given some of the deficiencies in his signs out of compliance with TEC rules, the suspicion arises
that the signs may have been purchased in Mexico.

This candidate also held a $500 per couple campaign fundraiser where the supporters were asked to bring their own empanadas. There is no mention of that fundraiser in report. Oh, well, we're sure he can pay any fine given the fact that
on his earliest signs - since replaced - that featured a very obvious $15,000 Rolex watch on his left wrist. Later signs Photoshopped the watch to black.

According to the Texas Judicial Commission website, the five candidates for the two district courts (138th and the 404th) have reported that have raised and spent the following amounts.