More on NE Demos Endorsement

I was at Demo HQ yesterday for the parade and several of us had a good laugh at the expense of David K. They all found it funny that the candidate that is trying really hard to get people to think she's a Democrat is so fervently being defended by the Republican blogger that doesn't even live here.

I explained to them that DK's family money is maxed out behind Fenenbock, so he's obligated to support her. Think of him as her version of The Mooch.

But I found out a few more things I wasn't aware of - one of which was the fact that NE Democrats accepted new members, and therefore the ability to vote, on the actual day of the endorsement. Every other Democratic club in El Paso has a membership deadline that prevents campaigns from essentially showing up en masse on the day of an endorsement to "buy" an endorsement.

So as if leaking questions to Fenenbock in advance wasn't bad enough, and the fact that prominent members of the NE Democrats including the president and Rep Sam Morgan have already come out publicly to support Fenenbock months in advance, leave it to the Northeast Democrats to make an endorsement for the congressional race before the filing window has even closed.

It'll be interesting to hear them justify basically any of that.

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Speaking of the filing window, Democrats, and the parade...anybody else notice who led the parade and did so on foot?

Thats right, former Mayor Oscar Leeser. And remember I said he had done the football draft last Sunday?

Despite the Texas Rangers' investigation being turned over to the District Attorney, it looks like Mayor Leeser is going to go forward with a congressional bid.

The minute he does, the campaigns that are left standing are going to be geared against him. They've seen this movie before. They probably all know that in order to stop a juggernaut of a campaign like Leeser's who has more than 25 years of name ID built up, they are going to have to leverage a negative message against him right away. That might have been part of Leeser's strategy in waiting until the last minute. If you think about it, waiting until the last minute to file gives the opposition less time to define him, sorta like killing the clock.

So the irony of all of this is going to be the association with Carlos Sierra. He was working for Leeser at one point but was disavowed. Now he is part of a PAC that doesn't want his association to be known publicly that is geared to beat Escobar and for the mean time, is going to be pro-Fenenbock. The question will be if that PAC turns on Fenenbock in favor of Leeser, and does Leeser even want to be associated with anything having to do with Sierra now.

Fenenbock has got to be losing her mind right now. Of the candidates most hurt by Leeser jumping in, its Fenenbock. He can raise money, or just self-finance if he wants it badly enough. Hell, Leeser might be able to just start hiring away her staff, especially field people.

Leeser would immediately become the face of the anti-Escobar crowd and undercut Fenenbock. She was pushing for him to become County Judge a while back in order to try to take him out of the picture.

Or, Leeser could just be screwing with people for the hell of it.