Cabrera (Arellano) Solicits Demo Support; Quotes Reagan
District 5 challenger Rosa Cabrera (Arellano) has had a rough 24 hours. Fresh off her scene at the parks meeting last night (see below), Arellano sent out an email about an hour ago to members of the El Paso Democratic Party soliciting their support.
The email went to several prominent Democrats including Iliana Holguin (Secretary of the County Executive Commitee), Rebeca Bustamante (head of the PDN Tejano Democrats), and Precinct Chairs Michael Apodaca and Othon Medina among others.
I tried to block that actual email addresses in this screen shot of the email.
But the most interesting part of the email is the end where after asking for their support and laying out her platform, she closes the email with a quote from a Republican.
I'm not making that up. See for yourself:
The email was replied to by one of the recipients, Rebeca Bustamante, who made her point pretty clear, "As an Eastsider and a Democrat I feel it’s important to enlighten you on our rules. Texas Democratic Party rules prohibit supporting Republican candidates. Voting records indicate you voted Republican in the last primary election cycle. The fact that you closed your email with a quote from a Republican further underscores that point."
Michael Apodaca had some practical advice for Cabrera (Arellano). Here's what he said: Just want to give you two tips from one former candidate to another:
Mike
The email went to several prominent Democrats including Iliana Holguin (Secretary of the County Executive Commitee), Rebeca Bustamante (head of the PDN Tejano Democrats), and Precinct Chairs Michael Apodaca and Othon Medina among others.
I tried to block that actual email addresses in this screen shot of the email.
But the most interesting part of the email is the end where after asking for their support and laying out her platform, she closes the email with a quote from a Republican.
I'm not making that up. See for yourself:
The email was replied to by one of the recipients, Rebeca Bustamante, who made her point pretty clear, "As an Eastsider and a Democrat I feel it’s important to enlighten you on our rules. Texas Democratic Party rules prohibit supporting Republican candidates. Voting records indicate you voted Republican in the last primary election cycle. The fact that you closed your email with a quote from a Republican further underscores that point."
Michael Apodaca had some practical advice for Cabrera (Arellano). Here's what he said: Just want to give you two tips from one former candidate to another:
1) BBC (blind carbon copy) your emails. Folks can see who you email and then have a tendency to reply all in either positive or negative comments and then it becomes an email chain mess as I'm doing right now.
2) know your audience: I thank you for emailing us to ask for support which you should do, however, ending your email with a quote from a republican president that most democrats don't like isn't going to win you friends.
Good luck!
Mike
Hey, at least our team is nice enough to wish her luck! dvice. Here's a quote from his replay.
But the face-palming doesn't stop there folks!
Cabrera actually responded to Bustamante with the following email that has the same quote and denotes her position as Area Director of a conservative Christian organization that stands opposed to almost every core tenant of the Democratic Party. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Cabrera voted in far more than one Republican Primary. That's not very, oh what's the word I'm looking for here...uh..oh I know...TRANSPARENT!
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