El Paso Politics

Sorry, been a little busy and haven't had a chance to blog much, but if you haven't seen it yet - go to Javier Aaron Paz's Facebook page and watch him go full-on late-40's-suburban-white-Soccer-mom-swing-bob-bleach-blonde-Karen at the Carolina Center the other day when I was putting up a couple of signs.  Seriously, it is some funny shit. He is huffing and puffing, stomping and pretty close to crying. He was so angry his hands were shaking.  He pulls his phone out to record everything and everyone. He think it intimidates people. Its the classic weapon of choice for Karen's across the land when they are bothered by even the most basic things.  Its even a meme.  So to give you the thumbnail of it all, I was putting up a couple of signs at Carolina the other day and Iliana Holguin has rented a mobile advertising truck with a big picture of her face and logo on it and parked it there.  The signs I have are ridiculously heavy because of El Paso winds. I was just of...

There's a video floating around on Facebook right now about showing Judge Laura Strathmann removing a sign of her opponent from a property.  Maybe its because I'm used to far worse things happening with signs in the Lower Valley in basically every campaign, even more so in this campaign season, that it is just not a big deal to me.  Except for one thing... It was totally a set up. I mean how dumb do you have to be to not see that.  Turns out there's a couple versions of that video floating around - one that actually turned down the audio and swapped it out for more dramatic audio.  I have the original video that was posted and my own question is - how much of this clearly planned set-up did Marlene Gonzalez know about? Is the guy following her around getting paid to do that, or is it just some weird obsession? Seriously, that campaign is crazy town so its a legit question - is he being paid or just following around a judge for the weird fun of it? Also...uh...what th...