Hicks' Campaign Money & Saucedo's Douchedom

Tom Hicks, one of the Carlos Sierra candidates FINALLY filed his campaign finance report. I've written about how how Carlos Sierra candidates always seem to have issues with reporting campaign expenses.

Hicks was only about two weeks late!

Anywho, he filed his report. Nothing earth shattering on it, other than the guy talking about integrity and honesty decided that the rules didn't apply to him so he didn't have to file a campaign finance report in his mind.

But what is MORE interesting about the fact that he took so long to file a report was how former mayoral candidate David Saucedo decided to interject himself into the conversation.

As you can see from this picture that I affectionately refer to as the Legion of Douche (its missing two guys that should be in it), Saucedo is a big supporter of Hicks.

I recently wrote about the fact that Hicks hand't filed a campaign finance report. The fact that Hicks was the only candidate in EPISD that hadn't filed a campaign finance report is a big deal. Especially when you consider a couple things - 1) that EPISD has a tremendous deficit of trust with the community and 2) the fact that candidates who were not obligated to file a finance report, still did.

When people who spent NO MONEY - that don't have to file a report - do and you don't, it says a lot.

The thing that people like Carlos Sierra and David Saucedo don't understand is that there are campaign finance rules for a reason. The public corruption scandal started at the ISD's. That is why it was so important to get state legislation to require reporting of campaign finances.

In districts like EPISD, it is especially important for candidates to report their finances.

But because Saucedo is a supporter of Hicks, he had some interesting - and revealing - comments about my post regarding the fact that Hicks didn't file.

I'm posting the screenshots of the conversation on Twitter because if I didn't, you probably wouldn't believe the depths that Saucedo would stoop to.

Saucedo took issue with me writing last week that Hicks hadn't filed a campaign finance report. His issue was that I called out Hicks for not filing a finance report because Hicks (along with myself and Saucedo) is a Knight of Columbus. For those of you that don't know, Knights of Columbus is an order of Catholic Gentlemen.

I've been a Knight since I was a teenager. In that entire time I've never heard of any edict from the Knights that says you have to not file a campaign finance report.

Saucedo was upset that I called out Hicks. He used the fact that its Lent as some sort of extra reason I shouldn't have said anything. I'm not making that up. Look at his reply to my tweet.

Seriously, this guy was upset that I called him out because he was a Knight and its Lent. Funny how he didn't have a problem - at all - with Hicks not being transparent and filing the report...somehow that wasn't the sin. The sin was me writing about Hicks because he's a fellow Knight and its Lent.

Obviously I wasn't going to let that statement go unchallenged so I replied. It gets sooooo much more interesting...

I replied and pretty much said that it sounds like Saucedo is saying that as long as you purport to be religious that he's willing to look the other way on important matters.

Seriously, I've never been so happy that I called people to undervote in my life. He justified my undervote pretty fucking quickly.

Who knows the damage that would have been done? Who knows if there would've been search warrants and investigations?

The point is he very clearly indicates that he would've looked the other way on finance reporting for someone he's close with or fits his religious demeanor.

Now as you can see, when I called him out on his pendejada - he very clearly sticks to his story and tries a terrible attempt at pivoting.

Basically if he was mayor, he appears to be saying that as long as you are a Knight of Columbus or someone he likes, he's willing to look the other way. That tells you a lot about his character as a man, as a candidate, as a politico, as a leader (had anyone actually voted for him) and as a Catholic.

Especially in a community like El Paso that has had to deal with a range of issues like a public corruption scandal, this type of rhetoric is telling and worrisome.

Now the reason that Saucedo even responds to what I tweet or post, is because he's emotionally immature. Hell, if you go back and look at our interaction, its usually filled with him responding by emojis.

All the emotional maturity of a middle school kid.

That is the guy that wanted to be mayor of our town - and he just demonstrated how willing he is to overlook the rules.

Can you imagine what he'd do as your mayor?