Winners & Losers (The Series)

I normally do a winners and losers post after an election.

Since this one had so many things going on, I decided to do a series of posts.

We'll start with some broad strokes in the municipal election.

By far the biggest loser in this election cycle is Max Grossman. Grossman had a stable of candidates and they all had the same message.

And they all got their asses handed to them. Seriously Max Grossman should stick to whatever the hell it is he's good at and leave politics alone because he got a serious ass-whoopin' last night. None of his candidates that he funneled thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to from the Houston Billionaire sugar daddy performed well.

Stoltz took a major beating - and he didn't even get hit. I can't imagine how much worse it would've been had a negative campaign message been leveraged against him.

Wright is in a run-off, but that is because he's Rich Wright. Its not because of Grossman. He's smart and dynamic, that has nothing to do with Grossman. But he barely made it in. The run-off was almost Cissy and a guy in a cabbie and sunglasses who has a hard time putting a sentence together who had no campaign money. And even then, that kid had Grossman's message more than anyone else in the field!

And the biggest loss -BONART!

This is where Grossman and David Saucedo should split the title for the biggest loser. Seriously there are a lot of people that fancy themselves as consultants. I think things really got crazy when Josh Dagda lost and decided he wanted to start consulting.

All of a sudden all these people that never won a race decided they wanted to be consultants. And the most ridiculous caricature of a candidate that lost that suddenly decided to be a consultant is David Saucedo. Saucedo came out the gate with a wet-dream of a client in Rick Bonart. Bonart is well-liked, smart, a known quantity and has some decent name ID. But more importantly he had a boatload of cash and was ready to spend it.

In short, Saucedo had every advantage that most consultants would kill to have. Cash was certainly not a problem for Saucedo's first campaign venture.

And he somehow managed to lose it. He lost to a candidate that they all wrote off. Saucedo lost Bonart's race to the LEAST FUNDED candidate in the field. She had no money. She had no base. She had no field. She had no mail. She designed her own stuff and her team was essentially her and her spouse. That was Team Frescas.

And Saucedo - who has paid a TON of money - lost the race for Bonart.

Seriously, the fact that Grossman and Bonart couldn't even get Bonart into a run-off - who was their best hope at getting one of their candidates on council - is an embarrassment and proof positive that if you've never won a race, you have no business telling people how they should run their race.

Let this be a lesson. Don't hire people that can't win. You think Saucedo would be in business as a locksmith if he never opened a lock or made a key that worked? Of course not, no one would give him any business.

So why the hell do you people hire people that have never won an election? Grossman and Saucedo are by far the biggest losers this election cycle.

Honorable mentions:

The Duranguito issue. I said all along voters didn't care about it this is now the second election that they showed they don't give a damn about that so-called issue. How many times do you have to be told by the voters before you get it? Maybe now we can start working on that damn arena so we tax-payers can at least start getting our money's worth.

The El Paso Times Editorial Board - in the city races they only had one of their endorsees win. Bonart was their endorsee in D1 and he didn't make a runoff. There was no endorsee in D5 and in D8 their endorsee also failed to make the run-off. Sorry Carlos Sierra, you still suck too.

The voters. I don't know who the dumbass was that thought putting municipal races on the same cycle as a general election was a good idea but they are an idiot. Maybe they had the best of intentions but all you did was make those races more expensive and therefore campaign donations a bigger part of the equation. We are stuck with it, but its terrible.

Up next winners and losers in each of the municipal races...