Valley Playing Center Stage in Run-Off Election

The Valley is where all the action is at in the run-off election. There are a few races on the undercard like the judicials (yawn), and the constable race (bigger yawn) but the main event is the El Paso County Commissioner Precinct 3 race.

The judicial races are just plain not exciting. If you think they are boring in a general, just imagine how boring they are in a run-off.

The Constable race...let me see if there is a nice way to put it...Well there isn't so let me be blunt...NO ONE CARES!

Not even a little bit. Here's how most people remember the two candidates. One has the same name as the Dallas Cowpie's lame ass quarterback (Tony Romo) and the other sort of looks like El Paso's answer to Pit Bull (Javier Garcia).

Garcia and most of the judicial candidates are relying heavily on building an alliance with Chente Quintanilla's campaign. There's no nice way to put it, so I'll be frank. Trying to rely on another campaign for help is stupid. Not only are they not going to help, but you don't want their help. Focus on winning your own race and you'll be more successful.

Even El Paso Young Democrats are getting in to the mix. Earlier in the election cycle before I resigned after the regime change, we endorsed Pete Gallego for CD 23. Now the EPYD's new leadership has decided to have an "Enchanting" (yes, they really used that word to describe their meeting) in San Eli which just happens to fall on the same day that Gallego's opponent, Ciro Rodriguez, is going to have a rally in San Eli. What a coincidence.

Speaking of Rodriquez, he's upped his profile a little bit and there is much more signage in the valley for his campaign than I've seen in a while. Although, to be honest, his signs are fugly.

So about that main event...

I noticed a mailer that went out from Quintanilla's campaign that looks like a re-hash of Dora Oaxaca's campaign mailers. And we all saw how effective those were.

But more on that later...

However there was one thing in it that I thought was pretty interesting. They characterize Quintanilla as the front-runner. In fact, thats probably an accurate depiction. By all rights, Quintanilla should win. In fact, there's no excuse if he loses. He has every advantage in this race.

He's the name people know.

He's politically connected.

He's got a prominent political family.

He's the go-to guy for the lazy-ass judicial candidates that don't want to campaign in the valley on their own.

And he's raised more money.

He's Goliath. Vince Perez is David and David is not supposed to win.

But...

As we saw in the Congressional race, having more money doesn't necessarily mean you win. Reyes spent more money than O'Rourke.

And while Quintanilla is the front-runner, lets keep some things in perspective. Essentially Quintanilla is an incumbent, for all the reasons I stated above. On election night he didn't break 40% of the vote despite having all those advantages.

Going in to a run-off, thats not exactly the best news for the candidate with all those advantages.

Goliath better check David's pockets for rocks and a sling-shot...

(BTW, if I don't win next year, Pink and Atticus are going to be fired as Staff Writers for The LionStar Blog

Do you want those two to be unemployed?)