GOP Faction Battle
They certainly aren't at the point where they can have a good ol' fashioned El Paso Faction War between various groups within the El Paso Republican Party, but my friends from across the aisle seem to be in the midst of a little scuffle over factions.
Apparently the campaign manager for their nominee, I forget her name, was a guy that left her campaign on the day of the primary election. Word on the street is that Dan Chavez is running the congressional campaign and apparently that is bothering another faction of the local GOP.
Dan Chavez previously ran for State Senate in the last election against State Senator Jose Rodriguez.
I should mention that the Ron Paul supporters are somewhat of a pivot point for the local GOP. Lets face it, they are the actual worker bees the GOP needs in order to make any of the elections they are about to lose in November look respectable. A good portion of the El Paso Liberty Group are supporters of the Democratic Nominee Beto O'Rourke. Some prefer the Republican nominee.
Apparently there was a bit of a hub-bub about some of the postings of the El Paso Liberty Group's Facebook page being interpreted as "pro-O'Rourke" and they were contacted by the establishment of the GOP and called to the carpet for it. Which is interesting because pulling the loyalty card with the Liberty Group isn't going to fly because the Liberty Group quickly pointed out the fact that its difficult to ask for Party loyalty when the GOP's nominee was seen recently courting the support of the El Paso Young Democrats at a meeting in San Elizario.
Interestingly at that meeting, the El Paso Young Democrats were featuring a Democratic congressional candidate that would've taken on Congressional Republican Quico Canseco in the General Election.
One more note, the El Paso Liberty Group is the most vocal and visible political group in town in terms of social media. The El Paso Democratic Party had a rather vigorous social media campaign in place but Danny Anchondo pulled the plug on it. The GOP has basically no social media presence and very few of the Democratic Party clubs have an active social media presence to the degree that the Liberty Group does.
Maybe the new Democratic Party Chair Rick Melendrez will take note and let some of the young guns in the El Paso Democratic Party start leveraging the FB page again...
Apparently the campaign manager for their nominee, I forget her name, was a guy that left her campaign on the day of the primary election. Word on the street is that Dan Chavez is running the congressional campaign and apparently that is bothering another faction of the local GOP.
Dan Chavez previously ran for State Senate in the last election against State Senator Jose Rodriguez.
I should mention that the Ron Paul supporters are somewhat of a pivot point for the local GOP. Lets face it, they are the actual worker bees the GOP needs in order to make any of the elections they are about to lose in November look respectable. A good portion of the El Paso Liberty Group are supporters of the Democratic Nominee Beto O'Rourke. Some prefer the Republican nominee.
Apparently there was a bit of a hub-bub about some of the postings of the El Paso Liberty Group's Facebook page being interpreted as "pro-O'Rourke" and they were contacted by the establishment of the GOP and called to the carpet for it. Which is interesting because pulling the loyalty card with the Liberty Group isn't going to fly because the Liberty Group quickly pointed out the fact that its difficult to ask for Party loyalty when the GOP's nominee was seen recently courting the support of the El Paso Young Democrats at a meeting in San Elizario.
Interestingly at that meeting, the El Paso Young Democrats were featuring a Democratic congressional candidate that would've taken on Congressional Republican Quico Canseco in the General Election.
One more note, the El Paso Liberty Group is the most vocal and visible political group in town in terms of social media. The El Paso Democratic Party had a rather vigorous social media campaign in place but Danny Anchondo pulled the plug on it. The GOP has basically no social media presence and very few of the Democratic Party clubs have an active social media presence to the degree that the Liberty Group does.
Maybe the new Democratic Party Chair Rick Melendrez will take note and let some of the young guns in the El Paso Democratic Party start leveraging the FB page again...
A fair point Victoria. I should point out though that 3 of the 4 candidates you mentioned are in fact...Republicans...
ReplyDeleteSorry, I didn't know Johnson was a Libertarian. Neither does anyone else...But I see your point.
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