D5 Winners & Losers

District 5 winners and losers is gonna be short and sweet.

Isabel Salcido won with a big margin despite a crowded field of candidates. Pretty easy to see that Saucedo had really strong support on the eastside. If it wasn't for D6, Saucedo would probably be the big splash story of the municipal elections this cycle.

Latina candidates all did well election night and Salcido was no exception. She trampled her opponents in early voting and maintained her lead throughout the night on election night.

The other winner in this race - Forma Group. The team at Forma have been on an epic losing streak. Seriously they make the Cowboys look like actual Super Bowl contenders. They are sort of the Raiders of political consulting but they FINALLY got a win on the board. I mean as usual all the campaign money appears to be sucked up by consulting fees, but hey in this game wins and loses matter and they finally got a win.

Salcido is another example of how voters have shown that Duranguito "issue" just doesn't matter to the electorate. Her motto was literally "continuing the vision". She was pretty clear about where she wanted things to go on council and she won by an overwhelming majority.

Losers

Shocker, its Max Grossman again. Another example of his candidate losing. Another conservative white guy who was supposed to be some defender of the barrio. I genuinely think that none of the candidates really cared too deeply about Duranguito, it was just a matter of convenience for them to take up the issue so they could access Grossman's sugar daddy money.

Kizito Ekechukwu is also a loser in this race. He placed a distant third and it proved that all the money in the world isn't going to make a recent arrest on domestic violence charges go away. But hey, he finally has a voting record now - assuming he voted for himself. Not that it matters, he's got no future in elective office.

Truth be told, the field of candidates running never had a shot. They just weren't very good candidates and Salvido didn't even lose a single precinct. If you win without even losing one precinct, its a pretty solid victory.