HD 75: Enriquez Hires Austin Firm

Fresh off of an interview with KVIA in which he criticized one of his opponents, Mary Gonzalez, for taking a contribution from an Austin-based women's empowerment PAC, Hector Enriquez has hired an Austin-based firm to help with his campaign.

Its a bit of a strange development considering his previous stance about the contribution to Gonzalez. In a press release, Enriquez says, 

“We are going to run a top notch professional campaign. This team has years and years of experience running and winning campaigns in Texas. They are some of the most respected campaign professionals in the business,” Enriquez said.
The team consists of Doug Dodson of Fletcher Rowley Media, James Alderete ofMessage, Media & Presentation, J.D. Angle of AMM Political, and Jason Stanford of Stanford Campaigns and Campaign Manager Moises Bujanda.

The firm her hired, according to sources in Austin, has a bit of a reputation for going negative in campaigns, so its possible that the original story from KVIA was pitched to the station as part of Enriquez's and the firm's effort to go negative.

Typically negative campaigns are geared at the perceived front-runner in the campaign, so it is curious that Enriquez chose Gonzalez for a negative piece when she clearly isn't a front-runner in that race.

But it was a shot in the arm for the Enriquez firm because he has been pretty absent from the campaign over the last few months, except for adding holiday decorations to his bus-stop campaign signs and then changing the image again by adding not one, but two images of himself to the signs.

Later Enriquez discusses "a long list of local supporters that includes business, political, and community leaders..." that will be released in the near future.

Look for Enriquez's profile to be increased over the next few weeks now. The firm also does mailers if my information is correct, so he will likely start sending those out soon as well.