Other D1 Finance Notes

In all this talk about over-blown finance reports and over-blown checks to someone who has never won a race - which should be a lesson to you would-be candidates about not falling for a sales pitch - I forgot to talk about the other two candidates. 

The one thing holding back Veronica Frescas was gonna be money. Hard for her to catch a spark without money and it appears that is what bit her. She’s raised the least of her field of candidates. 

Incumbent City Rep Peter Svarzbein however, is raking it in again. If he’s shown anything, he’s a prolific fundraiser. Who knew a gimmick (Pizza with Peter) he stole from Claudia Ordaz (Coffee with Claudia) would rake in the cash.

Hell I think every candidate should start doing that. 

Applesauce and undermining with Annello 

Hot Dogs with Hernandez

Malts with Morgan

Spaghetti with Cissy

Ribs with Rivera

Noodles with Noe 

or Mierda con Margo.

Hell why stop there? Every level of government can get in on the fun! 

Carne Asada con Carlos

Haggas with Haggerty

White Bread with Stout

or Birria con Bínce.

I kid, that isn’t likely where he was raising all that cash. But the point is, he has real money. Not inflated monopoly money figure, but real campaign cash that he can dump into the race. I guess that begs the question of what the hell is he doing with it. 

See the problem with fundraising is how much of it is actually leveraged into the field? A lot of money gets soaked up by consultants, like in the case of Bonart or anyone who’s ever hired Forma. 

The successful campaigns get that money into the field. I don’t live on the westside and haven’t really checked around to see who’s been hitting doors or who has been making an impact with visibility. 

Normally things like billboards are a complete waste of campaign cash because they are basically the worlds largest yard sign and for what it cost to put a billboard you can get a ton of people hitting doors. 

Bu this is a unique election, so we’ll see how much more visibility will factor into this cycle. 

At any rate, as I said before - this race is Peter’s to lose. Incumbents have a BIG advantage this election cycle and it would take a ton of money and strong name ID to unseat an incumbent. 

Had Bonart blown that money on David Saucedo I think he would’ve been much better positioned to take out Svarzbein. 

I’m not saying Svarzbein can’t lose, but I’m saying he’d have to screw up pretty badly to lose. 

He’d have to pull a Jimmy Suerkin.

For those of you that don’t get the reference, you haven’t been following El Paso politics long enough. The poor guy has become an adjective for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Like the Seahawks in the Super Bowl that one year. 

Or Dallas every weekend.