Times Endorsements - A Big Effin' Deal

Apologies to Uncle Joe for jacking his catchphrase but the fact that the El Paso Times endorsed Rick Bonart is a big freakin' deal.

It will likely be the most influential thing that has happened to Bonart's campaign and may be what drags Svarzbein - who until now - seemed to have well in-hand.

The Times endorsement is a real shot in the arm for Bonart, though I think that had the endorsement got another way many of his supporters would have been talking about how the paper is biased and no one reads it and blah blah blaaaaah.

Its not often that the Times endorses challengers over incumbents in municipal races, so when they do, people take notice.

Bonart will likely get a lot of mileage out of this.

But to compound Svarzbein's really, really bad day...he ends up with yet ANOTHER self-inflicted wound. He voted against the applicant that ultimately was selected as the city attorney. Ms. Neiman was selected as the city attorney. Other than trying to appease the doo-ruhn-gui-tow crowd, it makes no sense for him to have voted against her.

She's a qualified Latina attorney. Pastor Neiman is her suegro.

Beto's stickers are the second-most common sticker you see on cars in El Paso.

Abundant Living is the most common sticker. They live on the westside. They have a he congregation on the westside.

Incumbents have a pretty big advantage in this election cycle, but the door just opened to a run-off.

Svarzbein is toast if he ends up in a run-off. Sure, he can raise a lot of money but he would also need the advantage of a flawed opponent. All the challengers in his race are solid.

He's done if he ends up in a run-off.