Quick Wrap-Up of Last Nights SOTU Watch Party
By Jaime Abeytia
My two favorite chants last night..."Farley, Farley, Farley" and "Fredo, Fredo, Fredo".
Last nights State of the Union watch party at the McCall center was a packed house and there were a few notables in the room. Representative Eddie Holguin (he was lost, he thought it was a Republican event. Just kidding.), Joe Moody, Eliot Shapleigh were the current or former electeds in the room.
Shapleigh sporting his trademark denim and UTEP hat had a somewhat awkward reunion with his former communications director, Claudia Ordaz, who is now the deputy press secretary for Congressman Reyes' office. If you don't understand why its awkward allow me to explain. Leaving Team Shapleigh to work for Team Reyes is like leaving the Yankees to play for the Red Sox. (I know, that things happens all the time now, don't even get me started on free agency, but you get the point.)
Jerome Tighlman, one of my colleagues at Talk Radio 1150am, who once considered running as an independent against the Congressman was in attendance, along with Victor Houston. I was surprised to see Houston there considering he talks more shit about the President than my Republican Co-host Greg Fryermuth and Hector H. Lopez combined.
Also in attendance were the El Paso County Democratic Party Chair Danny Anchondo and State Democratic Executive Committeeman Don Williams.
Surprise moment of the night: El Paso State Democratic Executive Committee Woman Yolanda Clay and Blanche Darley were not in attendance. Okay, I'm joking, its not a surprise, they never go to Obama events.
Other notables include Alfredo Longoria, President of the El Paso Young Democrats, Rebecca Robles of the West El Paso Tejano Democrats. I think her Vice Chair is planning on running against Ann Morgan Lily, but I didn't get her name. Doctor something or other. Jeannette Walker of Organizing for America and every other Democratic group in El Paso was there along with Xavier Miranda of El Paso Grassroots.
There was also a Republican who decided he was going to crash the event. Republicans seem to like the confrontational style, which is cool, but we don't crash their events. Anyway, it was the guy that's always bitching at city council because he hasn't received enough attention in life, Sal "Poor Man Walking" Gomez.
We played a fun game of coming up with alternate nicknames for him, I think I'll share them at a later date. The reason I mention it is because I thought it was funny that he sat in the front row, closest to the cameras in order to feed his need for attention and then went around begging the reporters to be interviewed. I was asked to be interviewed and he watched my entire interview so that he could go beg for an interview as some sort of rebuttal.
The point is, when the story ran it gave the impression that people at the event were divided about the President's message.
We weren't.
He's a Republican and didn't tell anyone, though I made sure I did.
My two favorite chants last night..."Farley, Farley, Farley" and "Fredo, Fredo, Fredo".
Last nights State of the Union watch party at the McCall center was a packed house and there were a few notables in the room. Representative Eddie Holguin (he was lost, he thought it was a Republican event. Just kidding.), Joe Moody, Eliot Shapleigh were the current or former electeds in the room.
Shapleigh sporting his trademark denim and UTEP hat had a somewhat awkward reunion with his former communications director, Claudia Ordaz, who is now the deputy press secretary for Congressman Reyes' office. If you don't understand why its awkward allow me to explain. Leaving Team Shapleigh to work for Team Reyes is like leaving the Yankees to play for the Red Sox. (I know, that things happens all the time now, don't even get me started on free agency, but you get the point.)
Jerome Tighlman, one of my colleagues at Talk Radio 1150am, who once considered running as an independent against the Congressman was in attendance, along with Victor Houston. I was surprised to see Houston there considering he talks more shit about the President than my Republican Co-host Greg Fryermuth and Hector H. Lopez combined.
Also in attendance were the El Paso County Democratic Party Chair Danny Anchondo and State Democratic Executive Committeeman Don Williams.
Surprise moment of the night: El Paso State Democratic Executive Committee Woman Yolanda Clay and Blanche Darley were not in attendance. Okay, I'm joking, its not a surprise, they never go to Obama events.
Other notables include Alfredo Longoria, President of the El Paso Young Democrats, Rebecca Robles of the West El Paso Tejano Democrats. I think her Vice Chair is planning on running against Ann Morgan Lily, but I didn't get her name. Doctor something or other. Jeannette Walker of Organizing for America and every other Democratic group in El Paso was there along with Xavier Miranda of El Paso Grassroots.
There was also a Republican who decided he was going to crash the event. Republicans seem to like the confrontational style, which is cool, but we don't crash their events. Anyway, it was the guy that's always bitching at city council because he hasn't received enough attention in life, Sal "Poor Man Walking" Gomez.
We played a fun game of coming up with alternate nicknames for him, I think I'll share them at a later date. The reason I mention it is because I thought it was funny that he sat in the front row, closest to the cameras in order to feed his need for attention and then went around begging the reporters to be interviewed. I was asked to be interviewed and he watched my entire interview so that he could go beg for an interview as some sort of rebuttal.
The point is, when the story ran it gave the impression that people at the event were divided about the President's message.
We weren't.
He's a Republican and didn't tell anyone, though I made sure I did.
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