Sierra Tries to Regain Credibility through Samaniego

Richard Samaniego won a razor thin victory in the County Judge race on Tuesday night.

Apparently Carlos Sierra was running his campaign from the shadows, which is a bit of a surprise that Samaniego would be so willing to risk affiliation with Sierra coming to light during his campaign.

You don't have to take my word for it, read Sierra's own words for yourself.

That must be why Sierra is not on his campaign finance report. So either Sierra worked for free, or there's a big problem for Samaniego on his finance report.

Had the public gotten wind of the fact that Sierra was running his campaign, he would have lost. Which again goes to the whole problem Sierra has with running campaigns in El Paso. He's got such a bad reputation for dirty pool that the minute he's tied to a campaign, its the kiss of death.

By Sierra's own admission, he's been running the campaign for two months, so at the very least there should have been an in-kind contribution reported by Samaniego.

I doubt that Samaniego is going to be happy about this information coming out, but Sierra has to do something to try to salvage his reputation after his string of humiliating loses. Sierra was behind a few other races and they all lost but he has to spike the ball in hopes that someone will want to hire him.

Its now a political problem for Samaniego to be tied to Sierra and he will likely have to spend a long time fixing that now that Sierra publicly declared he was behind the win.

Interestingly Mayor Cook asked why Samaniego suddenly went negative.

Well, there's your answer.