El Paso Politics

No, I'm serious. That really happened. State Rep 76 candidate and occasional resident of El Paso, Elisa Tamayo backed State Rep Mary Gonzalez for Speaker at a forum last night. I know, that makes things awkward when you review finance reports. Oh don't get me wrong, Tamayo's biggest financial contributors are the delegation, so its no surprise that when asked who she would nominate for Speaker at the We Fill-in the Blank debate last night that Tamayo would pick someone she's beholden to. Its just weird that Joe Moody dropped 5 large on her campaign and she picked backing Mary Gonzalez over Moody. I'm gonna guess that there is a healthy amount of laughter going on in Austin today when they read this. No one in Austin, or in the entire Lone Star State for that matter, really thinks Gonzalez is a legitimate candidate for Speaker of anything. Hell, I don't think she'd be elected Speaker of the Cotton Eye'd Joe if you want me to be real about it. But if you h...

If you ever need to recalibrate your political compass - just find Norma Chavez, see who she supports and execute an about-face. The disgraced former State Rep for House District 76 that ruined her political career by going on an anti-LGBTQ rant against her then-challenger Naomi Gonzalez had a notorious reputation throughout El Paso and Austin as a result of the controversial outburst. Well she's endorsed Elisa Tamayo for her old seat. The funny thing about Norma endorsing Tamayo is how much it must hurt her that Tamayo doesn't advertise the fact that she's endorsed by Norma. Tamayo never met an endorsement she didn't like. She rolls out every "Endorsement alert!" she can. But the one she never talks about is the endorsement of former State Representative Norma Chavez who famously held the same seat until her career self-destructed on the aforementioned attack on an LGBTQ opponent. If you all have forgotten about that, lets walk down memory lane shall we? Its ...

The very day that District 76 candidate Elisa Tamayo, the hand-picked choice of the local delegation, was designated a "certified progressive" by Progress Texas , she showed up at an all-Republican event for an extremist Trump supporter that was just elected to city council in El Paso. The Trump supporter, Claudia Rodriguez, won a seat to represent some of the bluest precincts in El Paso County on El Paso's city council. Tamayo showed up to her election night celebration to show her support for the Republican. Here's a picture she took, literally in the arms of some of El Paso's most extremist Republicans and Trump supporters. The guy in the middle who is a grown man that still likes to play dress up and in this picture is cosplaying as Inspector Gadget is Max Grossman. Big time Democrat hater. I'll get to him in a minute. The woman off to the right is Representative-elect Claudia Rodriguez who ironically was elected largely on the name ID of Tamayo's oppo...