Hector Enriquez & Mary Gonzalez Dueling Interviews on ABC-7

Wow, I was pretty blown away by an interview I saw on ABC-7 conducted Maria Garcia. She interviewed both Mary Gonzalez and Hector Enriquez and I think it might have been a story Enriquez might have been trying to pitch.

The story was basically Enriquez going after Gonzalez because she just moved back to the district (which I wrote about earlier today) and because of her contributions from Annie's List. I thought the answer about returning to El Paso that she gave ABC 7 was much better than how she answered it at the Westside Dems Candidate Endorsement meeting.

This story is the reason why people have a hard time trusting people that run for office. Enriquez said he's been serving El Paso for x number of years. If you count his term on SISD school board, then okay, that is certainly serving the community.

But how has he served the community outside of that time? Coaching Tee Ball isn't serving the community. Its coaching tee ball.

Apparently he has a new slogan, 100% El Paso. Which I guess is new because it was previously something like No Job Too Small, which sounded like he was a handy man.

Frankly I thought he actually might be considering dropping out of the race because no one has seen him anywhere over the last few weeks. He hasn't been at any of the major party events.

But the real reason I thought he was dropping out was because HE HASN'T FILED A CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT, at least electronically. He's certainly had expenditures.

In fact, his reports are now online and get a load of this:

Totals From Report For Hector Enriquez
Filed on: January 13 2012
Covering the Period September 14, 2011 Through January 15, 2012

Total Unitemized Contributions:	$ 0.00
Total Political Contributions:	$ 166.73
Total Unitemized Expenditures:	$ 0.00
Total Expenditures:	$ 166.73
Total Unitemized Pledges (Schedule B1 or B2)	$ 0.00
Total Contributions Maintained As Of The Last Day Of The Reporting Period	$ 0.00
Total Principal Amount Of All Outstanding Loans As Of The Last Day of the Reporting Period	$ 0.00
Total Unitemized Loans:	$ 0.00

The requirement to report Total Contributions Maintained (Cash on Hand) applies to reports due on or after September 1, 2003.
This requirement does not apply to special session reports or telegram reports.

Total contributions and expenditures match. Drive on the Eastside and you will see his bench ads all over the place. That costs more than 166 bucks. What about design fee for his logo? What about printing?

Something isn't adding up here.

So we know now that he's still in the race. That's good to know. But what is really interesting to me is the fact that Enriquez pretends to have an issue with her receiving funding from an Austin group.

Here's the TRUTH: Enriquez made several trips to Austin to get money from Austin groups. He met with TLR and other groups. They were receptive to him at first. Hell I wrote about this a long time ago.

He sought their financial support and then when he didn't get it he has a problem with someone else getting the money? Are you freakin' serious? Give me a break!

And as far as questioning her motives for coming back to El Paso from Austin, how does a former school board trustee have an issue with that? I thought we wanted to encourage higher education for our children? Now we have an issue with it when they come back?

I agree that its something Gonzalez has to address, but from the position Enriquez is taking I find the whole thing suspect.

This is the kind of thing that drives people nuts about politics.