What is Next for Forma Group?

Things have been a little rough for my friends over at Forma Group lately and it got me to thinking about what is next for them.

Things haven't been going so well for them over the last few election cycles and then they have been starting to get pushed aside from campaigns that normally would've been theirs.

That's a big problem for them because how it works for them is they are gate keepers to some big money people. You get the big money donations, but Forma has to get some of the business whether its consulting fees, web design, mail program, etc.

Others have done a great job of giving candidates another option. Now the varsity team just gives Forma busy work to keep them on the bench but they aren't getting the big dollar stuff they used to. Dee Margo is gone, so there's no big fat dollar-rich race to work with there.

Naomi Gonzalez lost and she ended up placing third in a group of three. But it didn't surprise me, when I was block walking in the valley I saw Naomi lit on doors with the wrong polling location information on it. Tisk, Tisk, major mistake.

They lost Steve Ortega's race. I'm sure there were a million things that went wrong there but I'll bet people that live in Socorro were wondering why they had mail in their mail box for an El Paso race. Sounds like someone's mail universe wasn't too tight.

Perhaps the saddest depth of their woes lately has been losing a municipal race to Lily Limon. I'm mean seriously, how they hell could they lose that one? Well, maybe it was that ridiculous Top Gun logo. Maybe people expected Tom Cruise in a flight suit instead of Tania Chozet in platforms to come knocking on the door. Or maybe it was GOTV mail that landed at my friend's house after the race was over.

At any rate, they've been on the down swing as of late. To say nothing of the fact that they got elbowed out of the judge's race, which they probably would've made a ton of money on or the Stout race which was even funnier. They wouldn't give the vato the time of day from what I'm told and once he was in a run-off, thats when they came a-callin'.

So what is next for them since they've lost a major account to people that are able to work off of a kitchen table or a garage, lost two big state lege seats, lost a mayoral race, and lost a winnable city council race?

I guess poach judicial candidates. They usually don't know any better. They usually haven't run for office before, they usually haven't analyzed mail before, they usually have money they can spend, and hell, they usually don't know any better. How would they know if any political consultant showed them a piece of mail that was basically like several other pieces of mail with just images and text swapped out here and there?

And since there are always a crop of them running, it seems that would be a safe source of revenue.

Or they could work for Dan Longoria when he decides to run for city council. That race is coming up.

At any rate, they need some wins because things have been looking gloomy for them.