Annello Allied to Ordaz Opponent

City Representative Alexsandra Annello swears she's not helping City Rep Claudia Ordaz-Perez's opponent Eric Stoltz's campaign.

Cross her heart and hope to die, stick a needle in her eye.

Honest.

Scouts honor.

Seriously, you gotta believe her.

The reality is Annello acknowledged that she helped Stoltz with his campaign logo a long time ago. Why a sitting city rep would have anything to do with a colleague's opponent is beyond me. Its just asking for a strained relationship, or at the very least, a pretty healthy dose of awkward turtle.

Its kind of an unwritten rule on council that they don't get involved in each other's races. Its bad ju-ju because at some point they all have to run for reelection. The last thing you want is to support someone against a colleague that loses and then look over your shoulder come time for you own reelection and wonder if your colleague has decided to help someone against you.

But Annello has been throwing little chingaqueditos to Ordaz-Perez for a while now, in addition to helping the guy out with his logo.

Annello appointed Stoltz to a city commission for animals. If you don't know Ordaz-Perez, then you don't know that she's a huge animal lover, so she's taken the lead on a lot of animal issues. Annello could've put anyone else under the sun on that commission. She could have put the vato on any other commission in the city.

But she put him on a commission Ordaz-Perez feels strongly about. Annello putting her Ordaz-Perez's opponent on that commission was a pretty obviously middle finger.

Stoltz immediately politicized the commission in order to try to kill the TIRZ on the westside. Why a Lower Valley candidate wants to campaign on the premise of making the Lower Valley residents pay for rich Westsiders' infrastructure is beyond me, but that is a post for another day.

But we are talking about using a commission on ANIMALS to try to kill the TIRZ.

Yes, you read that correctly, he tried to use his spot on the commission for animals to kill that policy.

Its strange, I know.

I'm sure he'll have some convoluted reason as to why he did it, but Annello is opposed to the TIRZ. He did her bidding from that seat on the commission.

See where this is going?

But even more interesting is the fact that according to a former City Representative that represented the area, Annello apparently approached him a couple weeks ago asking for his support of Stoltz. The former City Representative doesn't like Stoltz at all and allegedly told Annello that not only would he not support Stoltz, he would urge people to vote against Stoltz.

I bumped into Annello at the Democratic Party Headquarters last week (I think she was lost, I've never seen her there before), and we had a fun little exchange about her assistance to Stoltz campaign.

Oops, I mean her non-assistance to the Stoltz campaign. When I asked her about the alleged conversation with the former City Rep, she denied it.

Which was awkward because he was literally standing around the corner. I guess she's calling him a liar.

But honest to God, cross her heart, she's not helping Stoltz.

I can't think of a sitting city rep that tried to take out one of her colleagues other than Cortney Niland. Typically they stay out of one another's races.

Its surprising that a freshman city rep would roll the dice against a colleague like that in an era when recall petitions are all the rage.

But seriously, other than helping with his logo, appointing him to a commission - the specific commission her colleague feels strong about, and allegedly soliciting support from former city rep - she's not helping Stoltz.

Promise.