Williams Targeted by Sierra's Pro-Fenenbock PAC

Don Williams became the latest casualty in an ever-growing offensive by Carlos Sierra's pro-Fenenbock PAC over the weekend.

At the Paso Del Norte Tejano Democrats endorsement meeting this weekend, members were sent a text message and email that specifically mentions Don Williams.

Mr. Williams has done an exhaustive search for any mention he allegedly made of Dori Fenenbock's husband and wasn't able to find a single instance of mentioning Mark Fenenbock, who has voted Republican in nearly every Republican primary for the last decade and contributed to several extremist Republicans.

The email contained a link to a video on the YouTube channel run by Keep El Paso Honest, the PAC run by Carlos Sierra who has failed to comply with finance regulations.

The videos that have been played on local television were arranged by a firm on behalf of Keep El Paso Honest that places ads for many GOP causes and campaigns.

For whatever reason the Keep El Paso Honest ads seem to be pretty poor quality. They have one ad of Escobar on a donkey (makes sense since she's actually a Democrat) through town but the video was so terrible it looked like a really poorly done episode of South Park.

Carlos Sierra, who sources indicate was beat up in a fight at a Journey concert last year, must still be feeling the blows to the head because part of the video doesn't even make sense. It appears to have a spelling or grammar error depending on what he was actually trying to say.

So far, Dori Fenenbock has not disavowed the content of the ads nor the personal attacks on people in the race that aren't the candidate.

For his part, Don Williams has indicated that he is reviewing what his legal options are at this point, which if he filed suit against Keep El Paso Honest could be problematic for them because it might tie up a lot of their money in litigation, even if the suit went nowhere.

Williams typically does a good job of being friendly with people on all sides of a race and usually isn't one to want to burn bridges with political factions. If you know Don Williams, you know he likes to be liked.

Here is a picture of him the very night that the text message was sent out. That is Fenenbock campaign manager Veronica Cintron.

Another thing that hasn't been disavowed by Fenenbock has been how the Reyes clan have been berating supporters of other candidates. Former Congressman Silvestre Reyes, who has some sort of title with the Fenenbock campaign sent Facebook messages directly to a supporter of another campaign, carrying on a disagreement the two had in a Facebook exchange.

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The Endorsement

I was there, I witnessed most of the process first-hand as an eye witness. Everything at the Tejano endorsement was on the up and up. Chairman Holguin runs a tight ship and there was no funny business going on with who was allowed to vote, who wasn't, who voted, who didn't, etc.

The process was clean and Dori Fenenbock won the endorsement fair and square.

How the email addresses and phone numbers ended up with a Republican PAC is unknown but the Chairman did not authorize that information to be shared with anyone so there is no indication where Carlos Sierra was able to obtain the information.

Nor did the emails/text messages influence the outcome. Most members didn't see the email (there's a lot of seniors) until after the endorsement process.

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Immigration & Spouses

So the really troubling part of the debates as of late has been the fact that all of a sudden all of these candidates seem to care about comprehensive immigration reform. Now that is a cause I have been working on with folks for years. Having worked for Border Network for Human Rights, I have had a front-row seat to who has, and who has not been committed to this issue.

Yes, Escobar's husband is an immigration judge and the fact that he is an immigration judge is something that is relevant to the campaign. But people like Dori Fenenbock should not be so willing to make spouses fair game in the debate process.

Why?

Well because Dori Fenenbock's husband is a major liability for her and since Dori Fenenbock can't keep her story straight about her voting record, she can't escape her husband's voting record, his support for Trump, and the record of his contributions.

So why she would want to make spouses fair game is beyond me, but she apparently has, so I'm sure she is now going to have to figure out more artful ways of dodging questions not only about her own voting record, but also his because there's no doubt that Mark Fenenbock will now be under scrutiny.

Actually the same people from the Reyes click that get excited about the anti-Escobar ads would be losing their minds if the ads were done in the same way, but featuring Fenenbock.

But hey, back to immigration because I have an observation to make about that. Having been around the CIR movement for the last decade, I can tell you that I have only seen two of the congressional candidates ever show up to an immigration reform event.

Escobar has been going to them for years, she goes when there aren't cameras, she helps with grunt work, etc. She's actually the only candidate running that has actually been recognized for her work with comprehensive immigration reform.

Not one of the other candidates has.

The other candidate that has shown up to CIR events is Norma Chavez. She showed up to one that I can recall, but I bugged her office to make sure she went, it wasn't because she was excited to go.

Now, here is the list of people that I have never, not once, seen at an immigration reform event:

Enrique Garcia. The vato is an immigration attorney and I've never once seen him at an immigration reform event. Now he usually has the harshest tone about Pleters, so I don't know if the two have a past but if they don't, it sure looks like it. Garcia is also the one most likely to lose his cool if someone went after his spouse. With good reason too, she's a very nice woman and doesn't appear to be political involved at all except for her husband's run, so she should be treated as a non-combatant. My point is, Garcia would lose it if she was suddenly the focus of a rival's attacks.

Dori Fenenbock. Never seen her at anything remotely related to policy or a cause before she ran for school board. Much less have I ever seen her at an immigration reform event. She has no record of supporting CIR before using it as a punchline in her campaign. And since Don Williams and I have taken photos or videos of damn near every Democratic Party event for the last decade, there's also no record of Dori Fenenbock ever supporting the Democratic Party.

John Carrillo. I don't know if it was because of his job or what, but he's never been involved in comprehensive immigration reform or any social justice issue that I can recall. But he's kinda new to the political scene in general.

Jerome Tilghman. Jerome talks a lot about DACA and immigration now that he is a candidate. He may have spoken about it other times he's run for congress, but not to the extent that he does now. But I've never seen him anywhere near an immigration reform event. The only event I have ever seen him at that was a public political event was the Tea Party Rally where he was trying to play to that crowd of crazies.