By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...About this time a year ago, Hispanic Republican candidate Mayra Flores was giddily yapping away about a coming Red Wave of her party faithful that would overwhelm voting booths from here to the Heavens.
God did not answer.
The dream-weaver Flores lost by more than 11,000 votes. There is no such colorful talk this time around as South Texas voters ready their minds ahead of the November General Election.
Also in the water is Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz, she of the homeless dog fetish. The District 15 representative is not making any waves, setting her campaign skiff's motor on automatic and apparently believing she has already beaten up & coming Democrat Michelle Vallejo.
What to think of all this?
Are Democrats now poised to sail on to victory at every level? They're not talking about any sort of Blue Wave, although their constituents are doing it online and during conversations in bars and restaurants.
It's what we're hearing, and our ears are on the ground. Daily, we take the measure of the discussion. There is NO WAY District 34 candidate Mayra Flores will make up her 11,000 vote defeat and NO WAY she will defeat incumbent Democrat Vicente Gonzalez.
Take it to the beach and to the bank.
The sentiment comes from what we're hearing about the national campaign in play for both of our major political parties. Republicans continue to cry themselves to sleep nightly over flawed, convicted felon candidate Donald J. Trump and the recent polls have shown it is in a freefall.
Down-ballot candidates such as De La Cruz, shown in photo above, at right, and Flores, shown below, will pay the price.
The 50-year-old De La Cruz, a former insurance agent and single mom, has decided hanging out at women's boutiques and splashing talk about saving area small businesses is the ticket to a nice swim all the way to the election.
The peripatetic Flores, meanwhile, has centered her campaign on a sort of similar bent, choosing to visit eateries across the Lower Valley as a way to spotlight her own support of small businesses. It is a weird strategy for both Hispanic Republicans.
Democrats Gonzalez and Vallejo are taking another route. Gonzalez has kept announcing federal dollars coming to the area, while 33-year-old Vallejo has spotlighted her local roots - a winner for hometown- proud RGV voters, we would say.
Yes, it's still a long five months before the election.
Waves are a natural at sea. Giant ones rise and crest when they want to, washing in to cleanse and cool.
This time, it is a big, Blue wave that's coming...
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The Republicans are attacking our entire system of justice and the rule of law because they don’t like the way that one case came out, whereas the son of the president of the United States is prosecuted and I don’t hear a single Democrat crying foul.
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Everyone has the right to appeal.
Trump tells probation officer he has a gun at home. Oh, oh. But, you know, I can't even imagine this silver spooned doofus shooting a gun.
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Arrest him. Having that gun is a felony. There was no drug test for his probation interview, his attorney was by his side, and he didn’t have to go in. He gets special treatment constantly and I am sick of it.
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ReplyDeleteMayra is definitely losing. Monica is 50-50 at this point.
Agree on Mayra losing. No way she can make up 11,000 votes, the total by which she lost last time. That's reality.
DeleteI don't hear anything that tells me who's ahead. We need a polling outfit down here.
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ReplyDeleteRepublicans aren’t speaking up against Trump because they are in service to themselves. Self-protect, self-promote is their goal, not service to us. Just themselves. Not even to the Constitution. Mayra Flores and Monica De La Cruz are not for our RGV people; they are for TRUMP!!!
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DeleteMayra Flores has the wrong motivation. She wants to be a celebrity politician. Too bad she's running against a force known as Democrat Vicente Gonzalez. Monica is a divorcee. She's just looking for a life.........
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