By Juan Montoya
What on earth was the right-wing fringe of the Republican party in the Congressional District 34 runoff thinking when its adherents were persuaded to vote for Jessica Bradshaw from Austin over Texas Southmost College trustee Adela Garza?
Was it the fact that Bradshaw will never be able to raise enough funds to fight Filemon Vela, whose campaign fund grows even more now that he has clinched the Demo nod?
Or was it the fact that Bradshaw's community involvement in Cameron County boards and entities are nonexistent?
In her literature, her supporters blamed Adela for "losing" 600 jobs at UTB as a result of the separation between the UT System and the community college. The fact that it was the UT system which first voted to separate just got in the way of a good blame issue in her campaign, apparently.
As the man used to ask the dog who ran after car tires after he caught one: "Now aht are you going to do with it?"
The Tea Party candidate can count on the die-hard right fringe to return to the ballots on November and cast their votes on her behalf. As it stands now, she and her supporters only have to attract some of the 22,574 votes cast for the Democratic candidates in their runoff to try make up the nearly 13,000 difference between the 9,591 cast for both candidates in the Republican runoff.
For the most part, the only aggressive plank in the Demo runoff between Vela and Denise Blanchard was that Vela wasn't a "true" Democrat," benign fodder compared to the venom spewed by the Bradshaw campaign against Adela.
At a 53 to 47 percent split between them, it'll be difficult for Adela's supporters to reconcile themselves with their candidate and get themselves to vote for Jessica. Besides, remember that the mainstream GOP lined up behind Adela. Bradshaw must have those 4,248 votes cast against her to close ranks against Vela.
Therein lies the rub. Vela, before he saw the light on the road to Washington D.C., was a solid GOP contributor and supporters. In fact, Blanchard's supporters distributed flyers documenting this fact.
Her supporters are hoping that the hard-core right-wing national PACs who would like to nail this seat for the GOP will pump millions into her campaign to see Bradshaw win. To us, that's an unlikely scenarion given Vela's former GOP roots.
If Republican voters and moderate Democrats unite as they have in the past, the scorched-earth policy followed by the Bradshaw campaign will come back to haunt them in November.
For the most part, the only aggressive plank in the Demo runoff between Vela and Denise Blanchard was that Vela wasn't a "true" Democrat," benign fodder compared to the venom spewed by the Bradshaw campaign against Adela.
At a 53 to 47 percent split between them, it'll be difficult for Adela's supporters to reconcile themselves with their candidate and get themselves to vote for Jessica. Besides, remember that the mainstream GOP lined up behind Adela. Bradshaw must have those 4,248 votes cast against her to close ranks against Vela.
Therein lies the rub. Vela, before he saw the light on the road to Washington D.C., was a solid GOP contributor and supporters. In fact, Blanchard's supporters distributed flyers documenting this fact.
Her supporters are hoping that the hard-core right-wing national PACs who would like to nail this seat for the GOP will pump millions into her campaign to see Bradshaw win. To us, that's an unlikely scenarion given Vela's former GOP roots.
If Republican voters and moderate Democrats unite as they have in the past, the scorched-earth policy followed by the Bradshaw campaign will come back to haunt them in November.
21 comments:
Come on Juanito you well know that it was Kiko Rendon not signing the agreement that cause UTB to separate from TSC. DO NOT BLAME UTB!!!!!!!! Te pagan Juanito y a mentir!!!!!!!!! Ya Basta con tu B.S. Juanio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Que pena.
Bradshaw, Puente, whatever she calls herself these days, is an arrogant idiot. So sad she got the nomination. Conservatives are dead in the water with her in the lead. Vela is no prize either. He is stupid.
I wish Jessica Puente Bradshaw all the best, but I wonder how many Adela supporters will jump party lines and vote for Vela?
Give it a rest Juan. Neither Bradshaw nor Adela will be elected to Congress. Take a look at the numbers, the Democrat loser got thousand more votes than the Republican winner.
Vela is going to Washington and that is that. I would have prefered either of the ladies, but that doesn't matter much here in Cameron County. The locals are knee jerk Democrats. The chubby little Gringo only beat Ortiz because of the Corpus vote and enough folks defected from Ortiz because of his vote for Obamacare.
Cough, Bullshit!
Bradshaw is a spoiled, selfish and arrogant opportunist, whose roots are definitely not Republican. After losing in the 2010 Republican primary, she could not even bring herself to support Mr. Farenthold, but instead turned to the Libertarian Party. She has the chance of a snowball in Hell of defeating Mr. Vela. Hopefully, after Nov. 6, she will return to Austin, and her hopefully repentant supporters will apologize to Adela Garza for all the hatefulness they directed toward her during this destructive and nasty campaign.
YA DEJEN A MI VIEJA JESSICA CULEROS!!! ES LA PROXIMA SENORA O'MALLEY UUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
MACLOVIO O'MALLEY
Did Denise concede? Sore loser.
What is especially revealing about this failed effort on Denise's part to define herself and her odd group of leftist wackos and corrupt politicos as "true" Democrats - is the fact that the overwhelming majority of real life, voting Democrats want nothing to do with them.
I am a Democrat and I voted for Vela. Why? Because I trust a former Republican more than Denise's groupies, look at them, the Hernandez and Limas crowd. They are the reason valley people refer to Democrats as DemocRATAS. undermining the Democrat party's image and reputation far more destructively than the Republicans ever managed
Jessica Robinson Puente Bradshaw, is as unethical as they come. What Adela had to endure from these idiots will give her a place in heaven for sure. Roman, Adrian Babozo, Elizabeth Dierlam, Rebecca Bawsbaboza.
Adela herself should vote for Vela she is very close to the Penas'.
One board member cannot decide shit by themselves, stop missleading the general public - putos
CAVA where are you?
Juan get over it and accept ur girl (adela) lost the election. Every board she has served on has always turned up messy when she joined them
Adela and bradshaw wouldnt have won and wont win against vela. So accept adela lost juan and move on. If she lost its because voters didnt believe all her b s. Thats politics.
MACLOVIO BRADFORD-PUENTE, SE OYE BIEN CULERO EL NOMBRECITO.
CON ESE NOMBRE DE GRINGO EUROPEO SI TE DEJAN JUGAR GOLFO EN EL DIABLO GOLF COURSE DEL RANCHO VIEJO.
YA DIJE!
A MI ME DEJAN JUGAR GOLF EN DONDE QUIERA HASTA EN BEVERLY HILLS CULEROOOOOO UUUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Y AHI TE VEO PA' JUGAR, APOSTAMOS A TU VIEJA Y YO AL ORCA...
MACLOVIO O'MALLEY
Congratulations Filemon Fucking Vela!!! You will be the new King of deep south texas. Cuando chingados le va ganar al primo esta pendeja mamona digo mormona
The chubby little Gringo.....
Racist comment....
Farenthold ran a good campaign, Solomon was complacent.
Part of the reason Adela lost was because she could barely string a couple of words together to form a coherent sentence let alone woo anybody out of the Brownsville Raza pool to vote for her. Bradshaw does not stand a chance against Vela, but at least the bitch can speak the language well enough to not be some laughabke farce of a candidate.
You guys are vicious, but I love the shit flung all over the place. A lot of that shit is true and as long as everyone is wearing a mask over the name, the truth will fly.
With respect to comments made about Denise Blanchard's campaign, she deserves to lose! How can she claim to relate to the needs of the Hispanic community, when she has spent the majority of her adult life concealing her Hispanic surname! What I resent more, is the belief by many that because we are Hispanic, we're going to vote for a democrat. As an older Hispanic my values have changed with the years and many of you can't accept that I can vote for a man or a woman with my values, regardless of party affiliation! You legends in your own minds need to accept and promote that Hispanics have brains and are very capable of voting for a person that has the true welfare of their community in mind, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or race!
if Adela has connections with the Republican higher ups why hasn't she gotten Greg Abbott to come down to Clean Up Election Fraud
Republicans want proof of voter fraud well HERE IT IS!!! just ask BEGUM, CELESTE SANCHEZ
Hispanic Republican intervention on this issue would be a huge surprise to the complacent Dems. heard Jared Hockema is worried Begum's election challenge will hurt his stepmamma's chances in the general election, pobrecito. Don't want the details of South Texas voter fraud hitting the papers right before Nora's race ayy Jared
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