Dori Demo Diss

Things appear to be really falling apart in the Fenenbock campaign.

Last night at the candidate forum for the Eastside Democrats, which ended up with a crowd similar to that of the Westside Democrats, Dori Fenenbock was a no-show.

Frankly, it was a bit of a surprise because Fenenbock has prided herself on having good relationships with a few party leaders and I think they all took it for granted that she would clean-up with all the party endorsements.

Except she hasn't.

The one Party endorsement she has so far is the NE Democrats endorsement which had a tainted process because her field guy Chris Hernandez let it slip that they were supplied with the questions in advance when he was more or less complaining that the questions for Dori were too hard.

The Westside Democrats endorsement didn't go the way she wanted and Escobar won that endorsement. That turned out to be a bit of a surprise to the Fenenbock camp, but I'll get into the ironic reason why shortly.

I'm pretty sure she is not going to show up to another one until Tejano's because she probably thinks she has that one in the bag.

So last night when she was a no-show, Chairwoman Ybarra-Williams received a text message and email, and Democratic Party Chairwoman Holguin was cc'd, from the Fenenbock campaign after the debate had already started, but before the congressional candidates spoke.

Thankfully I was able to acquire a copy of the email and attachments.

The letter says they felt that the process wasn't fair to Fenenbock because one member of the panel had donated to Escobar, which is true. They didn't specify in the letter who it was, so as you can imagine all the panel members appeared insulted and embarrassed that a candidate would insinuate that they would not be fair in the endorsement process.

The panel included El Paso County Democratic Party Chair Illiana Holguin.

But worse for Fenenbock, the entire membership was insulted and didn't react well when moderator and Vice President of Eastside Democrats Don Williams read the letter to the membership explaining why Fenenbock was not in attendance.

Here's the letter sent from the Fenenbock campaign:

And this is why Dori's campaign has so many problems. No one in that camp appears to have any sense about optics. They pretty much dissed the Party Chair at a club event that was well attended, even if it was unintentional. Ruh-roh, she's married to the Chair of the Tejano Democrats...(y'all might want to get on the phone with Chairwoman Holguin and start apologizing...)

But more importantly, they insulted an entire club by implying that the process wasn't going to be fair.

Which is why Dori looks like such a hypocrite all the time.

Let me explain to you why.

As I said previously, she participated in the Westside and Northeast Democratic candidate forums. At no point did any of the candidates refuse to participate because they felt that the process wasn't going to be fair. The candidates showed up and competed for the endorsement.

Why is that such a big deal? Well because Fenenbock's little foot-stomping tantrum about the Eastside Democrats looks really bad on her when you consider that the Chair of both the Westside Democrats and the Northeast Democrats came out to publicly support Fenenbock well before their endorsement processes.

But hey, don't take my word for it, ROLL THE TAPE!



This guy was Team Dori from the gate. This was recorded at her campaign kick-off event. He would later moderate the NE Democrats Forum. Where was Dori's sense of fair play then? Where was her desire to "participate in a truly neutral, non-biased forum" as she stated above?

Sounds a lot like Dori wants to have a set of rules for her - and a different set of rules for everyone else.

Now, thats a pretty high level of hypocrisy wouldn't you say?

Well it gets worse because its not the only example.

Here's my friend Ken Sutherland endorsing Fenenbock when she went down to officially file on the ballot.



Last week he moderated the Westside Democrats endorsement meeting.

I complained about he berated people that didn't attend, but you know who didn't complain about the Westside Democrats not having "a truly neutral, non-biased form"?

Dori Fenenbock.

Apparently having forums in which the chair of the organization is the moderator is completely "neutral" and "non-biased" so long as you think you're gonna win in the wonderful world of Dori.

To say that Party members were infuriated at the insult is an understatement. I think Fenenbock has finally realized she doesn't have the monopoly on the Party she thought she had.

I should be clear here - the Westside Dems event wasn't anything like the NE event. No one appears to have questions in advance, the candidates were sequestered, and Ken didn't seem biased at all to the candidates that were in attendance. He was rough on the ones that weren't, but if you were there, he was fair to you.

I interviewed Don Williams, Vice Chair of the Eastside Democrats about the email from Fenenbock's campaign, which wasn't sent to the organization until after the event had started.



Gotta love how this campaign is morphing into the Reyes / Saucedo campaigns...

Actually, more like Trump. Refusing to attend events, calling things Fake News, and having an explanation for things that is completely divorced from reality...