Botched Ad

Leave it to that clown car of a campaign that is the Dori Fenenbock congressional effort to do a negative ad against Escobar that features Escobar debating policy against Willie Gandara and Anthony Cobos.

There are a lot of reasons that this ad is hilarious to me. One - who was the genius that thought having Fenenbock align with Gandara and Cobos was a good idea, Norma Chavez? Seriously, was there a conversation in her little committee and someone had the balls to stand up and say, "Hey, I know...what if we had a commercial featuring Escobar fighting with Willie Gandara and Anthony Cobos!"

Whoever came up with that should never be allowed near a campaign again because they aren't helping.

Other reasons this commercial is hilarious - very few items are ever taken to the voters, even fewer from the County. Not because they don't care, but because there is no legal mechanism to do so. Its mostly just bonds that go to the public. And guess what, part of the commercial talks about the children's hospital...which went to the voters.

Take a civics class people. You elect representatives to make decisions for you. If you don't like their decisions, you get to vote them out.

But for me, its the timing of the ad that cracks me up the most. Escobar had to actually fight corruption when she was a commissioner and eventually as county judge. Now Fenenbock has said she cleaned up corruption at EPISD - which is 100% bullshit - but at the very time her campaign releases this ad, it turns out that Fenenbock was receiving campaign contributions from EPISD contractors while she was still a board member.

Gotta love it.

But what I love as much as this ad is Fenenbock's duplicity. Maybe its the whole entitled wealthy westside thing, but the fact that Fenenbock has two sets of rules cracks me up. First, she accuses Susie Byrd of doing what vendors have denied her doing, but what she was guilty herself of doing - taking money from contractors while she was a board member.

What is Fenenbock's excuse? Oh, they are personal friends of mine.

Oh okay, well as long as they are personal friends of yours that are also vendors that are bidding on the largest bond ever passed in El Paso County then I guess there's nothing to see here right?

Or her comment defending the guy that was allegedly involved in a dirty deal characterized as a bid-rigging scheme saying that Escobar has to stop demonizing good people. This is the guy that was making $1,500 per day from tax payers and was apparently providing Fenenbock with campaign advice while she was a trustee.

Meanwhile notice how when she goes after Escobar and Byrd (accusing them of what she was actually guilty of herself) she demonizes two donors of Escobar's that are Chicano and weren't actually vendors at the time. The same lady who bragged about defeating Latino opponents.

The same lady that demonizes Escobar's spouse, while her own spouse is a right-wing extremist.

The same lady that says Escobar isn't pro-immigrant but has no record on immigration herself except for the stance of wanting to further militarize the border and has a former border patrol chief as her campaign chair.

Gotta love her duplicity.

But mark my words, she'll do it AT LEAST one more time before election day. Mark my words.