Weird Stuff 'Round Social Media

Here's a collection of things on the internet involving local politics that amuse me today.

Lets start with HD75 and the race between incumbent State Representative Mary Gonzalez and her opponent from the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Mary Sue Femath.

Or as I call it, Mary Edna V. Mary Sue.

Mary Sue has a Facebook sponsored ad that is a little creepy. Okay its creepy after you watched a scary movie earlier on Netflix, you're up at 3:30am and scrolling through Facebook and see a political ad with no faces.

Its just really weird. You'd think with all that money in her campaign she could've gotten release forms signed or Forma could have actually purchased an image that had faces. But hey, thats what happens when all your money goes to consultant fees and doesn't end up in the field.

I warn you people every election cycle but you no one listens.

Speaking of warning people...I told you old Norma would be back and I wasn't wrong.

Okay, so to be fair to her, she hasn't yelled at a staffer in public or called anyone a lesbian gay woman yet (I emphasize yet), but she is already going back to some of her old habits.

Namely, blogging and temper tantrums.

Why on earth she thinks blogging as a candidate is good idea is beyond me. But one thing Norma isn't good at is listening to people around her that try to protect her from herself. Back in the old days she used to call talk radio and fight with the hosts in the middle of a campaign, even when they were generally supportive of her. I even told her staff, when I was on the air, to take her cell phone from her, duct tape is closed, put it in a box, wrap that up in more duct tape, climb the bigger tower at Asarco, and drop that damn thing in there so she can't get it until after election day.

So Norma is blogging and its about as smart for a candidate like Norma to do as you think it is. She mostly whines about not getting endorsements from the Democratic Party clubs, complains about how people have already pledged their support to someone else because she got in the race literally at the 11th hour, and then whines some more about entering the race within the statutory limit (no shit Norma, you wouldn't be on the ballot if you hadn't).

And apparently menudo fundraisers have now replaced pachangas. Now Norma is doing a menudo fundraiser, which is kinda hilarious that Norma is following Fenenbock on that.

Speaking of hilarious, I've been catching candidates commercials. There's a judicial candidate running in this cycle and he has a commercial in which he's wearing a short sleeve shirt that looks like a Ducks Unlimited shirt.

I usually see him in a suit so I didn't recognize him at first and assumed it was a Republican running for something until I realized he's running as a Democrat for a judicial seat.

A couple weeks ago John Chatman sent me a friend request on FB. Well, actually I doubt it was John Chatman himself. But most of you know what this is hilarious to me. For those of you that don't know, John Chatman is the Justice of the Peace for Precinct 5 in the lower valley. He's the guy who apparently now thinks his first name is "judge" and has like 5 pictures of himself in his court.

I'm not exaggerating. The guy loves pictures of himself.

He also likes carrying a gun. There was an issue with that, but I'll write about that another day. Anywho, I doubt it was him that sent me the friend request for his new Facebook page because a) he sent me a friend request and b) whoever runs it can't spell his name correctly.

I declined the request at first, but then said "what the hell, why not?" and sent a request back after initially declining it.

Anywho, the person running his page can't even spell his name correctly. Its since been fixed, but its still funny.