By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
BROWNSVILLE, Texas | If ever a local candidate looked like he just walked back from the movie set of the latest Pancho Villa biopic...it is Ricardo "Richard" Alejandro, no relation to Prince Harry.
The 24-year-old inexperienced politico wants the Cameron County Precinct 1 Commissioner post held currently by respected Sofia Benavides.
Greenhorn Alejandro, shown in photo above wearing a cowboy hat for some unknown reason, is the proverbial raw onion. He'll bring tears to your eyes just listening to his heavy-as-nopales Mexican accent. Poor guy. He has no chance.
The precinct encompasses a weird geographic area that includes the poor and ever-needy Southmost neighborhood of Brownsville all the way to richer South Padre Island.
Appearing on a hopelessly obscure local podcast on Thursday, the thin ineloquent Alejandro claimed to be a Republican before moaning and groaning about the gross lack of bus shelters, streetlighting, trash pickup and bad streets in Southmost, his old neighborhood. That he blamed on Mrs. Benavides (shown at left in photo at right), Alejandro perhaps not knowing that most of that falls under City of Brownsville responsibilities. I tell you: He's just the worst candidate out there for any position right now, and would still be the worst one even if a bold undocumented immigrant new to the northern banks of the Rio Grande shook the water off his wet pants and declared his immediate candidacy for a county position.
Pushed on to talk by the podcast's garrulous host, Alejandro agreed that he would look into the possibility of a second causeway from the Texas mainland to SPI. On the island, he would look into building what the host described as "rinse stations" where island tourists could wash away sand and whatever else off their bodies when leaving. He also agreed that more trash cans are needed on SPI.
Really, without the constant prodding by the sunglasses-wearing host, Alejandro would have simply just been there like a bump on a resaca log.
He's weak.
There is literally a world of knowledge and experience separating his nowheresville candidacy with that of incumbent Benavides.
The guy just looks like he should be running for governance of some poverty-stricken ejido on the rough boundaries of Matamoros, Mexico across the Rio Grande.
As we always say about our politics in this country: "It's about how you look, not about how you feel."
Ricardo Alejandro has nothing to offer but the imagery of a dreamer wasting his time...
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