By Juan MontoyaStuill riding her stroke of good furtune, Yolanda Teran Begum drew top spot on the ballot in her race against Erin Hernandez Garcia on the Democratic runoff ballot for JP 2-2.
Denise Saenz Blanchard drew top spot in her congressional District 34 race against top vote getter Fliemon Vela Jr.
Also drawing the top spot was Abel Gomez against Pete Avila in the Precinct 2 Constable's race.
Carlos Masso will have the top spot over that of Luis Saenz for the Cameron County District Attorney's office. And Ruben Cortez's name will appear over that of Celeste Zarate Sanchez in the runoff for State Board of Education District 2 race.
Vice chair Jarod Hockema conducted the drawing at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall Thursday morning.
Since the runoff races consisted of only two places, Hockema had only two pieces of folded paper for the candidate or the representative to draw. After the draw for the Demo senate race, Blanchard, sitting at the same table, picked up the number one slot and as Hockema folded the paper, Cortez was approaching the table. When Hockema dropped the No. 1 pot on the table, Cortez snatched it and he got the first spot over Sanchez.
Apparently, no one noticed that Cortez had seen that Hockema had just taken the No. 1 folded paper from Blanchard and was in the process of dropping it on the table when Cortez grabbed the same paper and he got the top spot.
Many say that the top spot on a ballot automatically gets one about 10 percent of the vote, but in a runoff, when people have already voted for their candidates already, this may not hold. But such obvious handing of a top place to Cortez begs belief.
When Begum drew her place from the bowl, she had not seen which was which. But to draw the same top place twice in a row left some thinking that someone was watching over her.
"Alguien te esta cuidando," said a supporter afterward. "Either that or you have the best of luck."
5 comments:
Good luck Yolanda!!!!
BTW it's Celeste Zepeda Sanchez not Zar
Juan,
It was good to see you. You hit the nail on the head when you said "still jousting windmills". I should and do know better, but sometimes the bs is just too much to not comment on.
Your observation on the drawing event just further indicates the indemic corruption and dishonesty of the people who have gavitated or clawed their way to the top of our political system.
Thanks for your dogged involvement and oversight. Regards, Cheo
Montoya, rumor is that Abel Gomez may have paid a visit to the Federal Courthouse? Does it have to do with Armando Villalobos' indictment? Abel Gomez is assigned to Armando's special operations unit. Abel is supposedly responsible for shutting down the other 8 liner locations or competition within the county? Armando Villalobos trusted Abel to speak for him when certain 8 liners had been raided once or more. Maybe Abel Gomez knows more than he is supposed to and has something on Armando Villalobos? Maybe he is singing to keep his ass from being violated if indicted and convicted? Only time will tell like everything else?
Word is Abel Gomez is part of the alphabet soup. They say he won't make it out of the year before he's indicted. This guy is as arrogant and crooked as they come. His family owns 8 liners and he was out to eliminate competition or those who wouldn't pay protection quotas. The other DA investigators are not any better. They would shake people down and lie on affidavits all the time. Common practice for these crooked investigators. Lord only knows what else they were in to. How could Villalobos not know this was going on?
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