Baseball Stadium: Why November Doesn't Matter

On my previous post I mentioned how most of the people making a fuss for or against the new stadium don't really care about baseball all that much. I made a mistake.

I should have also said that they don't really care about the City Hall Building all that much either. Again, this is more about opposition to the Shapleighites, The Progressives, or whatever you wanna call them more so than it is about baseball or city hall.

Lets be honest most people on both sides of the issue don't follow baseball that closely and rarely visit city hall.

So now that the opposition has lost, they move to their next step, the November bond stuff and a recall threat.

There are two reasons why that doesn't matter:

1. A recall is the emptiest threat in this town next to sub-zero temperatures. Yep, they've happened exactly the same amount of times in El Paso County in recent history and they were both pretty expensive. Actually, its never happened in El Paso. The only successful recall was that of former Socorro Mayor Willie Gandara, Sr. and he had to be arrested in order for that to have even been a possibility. Niland will be fine. A lot of stuff has to go write for the recall people in order to make it happen and she recently took office with a pretty strong showing of votes. IF they even collect enough signatures for a recall all she has to do is some campaigning and drop some mail reminding the district of her utility win. Problem solved.

2. And more importantly, the Progressives are undefeated. They've never lost an election. And you can't count former Mayor Caballero's loss against them. The vato had a fake family in campaign material, no one can save someone who does that, I don't care how good of a campaigner you are. Bottom line is The Progressives have never lost an election. Not only do they not lose, they usually win by big margins. Face it, they can raise money and they work harder than almost anyone else. They are behind the stadium. There is already pro-ballot initiative material printed.

You might not like them, but you ain't gonna beat'em. I know that might get under your skin, but you can't argue with the facts. They don't lose.

They are in the drivers seat because they know how to organize, mobilize, and capitalize. The opposition will need a whole lot of help and a lot of stuff to go their way to have any hope of stopping the inevitable.

The stadium and the El Paso Padres are going to be a reality. And eventually, even members of the opposition will be at the stadium, buying tickets to the games, and cheering on the home team.

Hell, I'm willing to bet that some of the people who voted against the stadium issues on Monday will be at the ground-breaking ceremony with their Padres hats and golden shovels for the photo-op.