Congressional Debate - EPCC Valle Verde
This is footage of the debate on Monday between the Congressional candidates at the Valle Verde campus. It includes two of the Republican candidates as well as a new face you probably haven't seen, Paul Johnson.
Mr. Johnson is running as a Democrat. He has voted Republican for most of his recent past and is from The Valley. He previously ran as a Republican against Chente Quintanilla for his state rep seat.
I spoke with him yesterday after the Congressional debate at the Transmountain Campus and since I've interviewed all the other Democrats on the ballot I am going to interview him soon.
Absent from this debate were Jerome Tilghman and Ben Mendoza.
Highlights of the debate:
Luis Torres (Congressman Reyes' surrogate) unveiled a new opening and a new line of attack on O'Rourke having to do with voting against bringing some jobs to El Paso. Turns out that had something to do with Boeing. Torres isn't the candidate, but as a wonk, I rather enjoy the debates between O'Rourke and Torres.
O'Rourke had another strong and steady performance. He prosecutes well. Since he was on a college campus, he actually made it through an entire debate without getting beat-up over the legalization issue.
The inclusion of the Republicans is tiresome. I understand why they are included, but really they should have their own debate. They aren't going to win any support and they aren't very impressive. Carrasco, who was previously pretty good has steadily declined. She seems distracted at times and struggles to make her point unless its something from her standard playbook of Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare, Freedom of Religion, Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare.
Roen, the other Republican is hurt by being in a field with a bunch of Democrats. If he had her in a one-on-one debate he could start to draw more of a contrast with his opponent. What ends up happening is that they both speak like they are running against the Congressman.
They aren't. They are running against each other. But neither of them seem to have figured that out yet.
But I totally understand why they want to be included in these debates...its the only way a group of people will listen to them. Otherwise they are speaking to small crowds that can fit in a living room.
One of them has to actually win, that way we Democrats have someone to trounce in November. They haven't realized that the high-water mark for Republican performance was 2 years ago. They aren't going to do as well as they did back then, which is why I think they will get less votes than Tim Besco did.
Mr. Johnson is running as a Democrat. He has voted Republican for most of his recent past and is from The Valley. He previously ran as a Republican against Chente Quintanilla for his state rep seat.
I spoke with him yesterday after the Congressional debate at the Transmountain Campus and since I've interviewed all the other Democrats on the ballot I am going to interview him soon.
Absent from this debate were Jerome Tilghman and Ben Mendoza.
Highlights of the debate:
Luis Torres (Congressman Reyes' surrogate) unveiled a new opening and a new line of attack on O'Rourke having to do with voting against bringing some jobs to El Paso. Turns out that had something to do with Boeing. Torres isn't the candidate, but as a wonk, I rather enjoy the debates between O'Rourke and Torres.
O'Rourke had another strong and steady performance. He prosecutes well. Since he was on a college campus, he actually made it through an entire debate without getting beat-up over the legalization issue.
The inclusion of the Republicans is tiresome. I understand why they are included, but really they should have their own debate. They aren't going to win any support and they aren't very impressive. Carrasco, who was previously pretty good has steadily declined. She seems distracted at times and struggles to make her point unless its something from her standard playbook of Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare, Freedom of Religion, Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare.
Roen, the other Republican is hurt by being in a field with a bunch of Democrats. If he had her in a one-on-one debate he could start to draw more of a contrast with his opponent. What ends up happening is that they both speak like they are running against the Congressman.
They aren't. They are running against each other. But neither of them seem to have figured that out yet.
But I totally understand why they want to be included in these debates...its the only way a group of people will listen to them. Otherwise they are speaking to small crowds that can fit in a living room.
One of them has to actually win, that way we Democrats have someone to trounce in November. They haven't realized that the high-water mark for Republican performance was 2 years ago. They aren't going to do as well as they did back then, which is why I think they will get less votes than Tim Besco did.
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