Mayoral Candidates Cancel San Eli Debate

Mayor Araujo, San Elizario

San Elizario Mayor and challenger Isela Reyes withdrew from a scheduled debate at San Elizario High School. 

The debate was being organized by the students at San Elizario High School and the two candidates withdrew from the debate without explanation, leaving only one candidate. Since it was only going to be one candidate in attendance, the decision was made to cancel the debate. 

That was the only debate scheduled for San Elizario voters to hear from the candidates. 

Again no reason was given as to why they didn't want to participate in the debate but both of the candidates that withdrew had some unflattering information come to light recently and likely don't want to address the issues publicly.

I've done some more homework and there is even more information about the Mayor and Reyes that will likely be of interest to the voters. 

The municipal elections in San Elizario are important to the community because they recently incorporated after fighting off a proposed annexation from the City of Socorro, so residents are rightfully concerned about the direction of the City, especially coming off the fact that San Elizario lost their voting rights on the MPO because of a lack of attendance by the current Mayor of San Elizario.