El Paso Politics

I haven't seen a story handled this poorly by a campaign staff since David Saucedo's campaign team asked for a time-out in the middle of an interview when it wasn't going well. KVIA decided to follow-up on a story broken by the El Paso Times about Loweree's education and experience, or rather lack thereof in terms of what she stated to have on her bio on the EPISD website. From a public relations and campaign perspective, this is an example of a very easy story to deal with and kill immediately. First, if the facts are on your side, be first. Be first to release the information. Had they actually had documentation of the degree, teaching certification, and work experience, they should've released it right away. That would've undermined the union and prevented them from framing her has dishonest. If they had it and they didn't release it, then that is just simply a failure on the part of her campaign team. Frankly, unless Loweree for some reason didn't wa...

Well, talk about a surprising development. Carlos Sierra's candidate Mickey Loweree had some peculiar answers to the El Paso Times' questions about her experience and education . She was also at a candidate forum last night where she added another layer of intrigue to the questions surrounding her education. The Westside Dems asked the candidates to send in a bio so that it could be printed and the attendees could read about the candidate before they spoke so that the candidates didn't have to waste time giving biographical information. I'm gonna assume that Trustee Loweree's bio was submitted before the news story came out about the allegations from the El Paso American Federation of Teachers regarding Loweree's education and experience hit the news. Now keep up because Loweree's description of her education twists and turns quite a bit over time. So on her bio on the EPISD website it says that she has worked in EPISD as a teacher for 10 years and that she ...

Sorry everyone, been busy and haven't had time to write much. Don't worry, the loser post is coming. But I wanted to take a short minute to write about something we shouldn't forget about just because the election is over. Carlos Sierra, who is behind the PAC "Keep El Paso Honest" and is President of Sierra Public Affairs and a partner in Renegade Public Affairs missed another filing deadline. How the hell the guy still gets work in politics when he has such a terrible reputation for playing dirty and not complying with campaign laws is beyond me. But you can't miss the irony of someone having the audacity to have the word Honest appear anywhere in something he is connected to - especially when said PAC hasn't made one single reporting deadline. Seriously, the guy has become a political punchline. The main point of all of this, and he's featured prominently in the upcoming election losers post, is that we have campaign finance laws for a reason. He ap...