ABBOTT WHEELS IN HIS CAMPAIGN TO KINNEY'S COBBLEHEADS

By Juan Montoya
If you passed by Joe Kinney's Cobbleheads this morning and saw all the security and commotion, you probably wondered what the fuss was all about.
Well, Texas gubernatorial politics has reached out to our little corner of the world in the form of Republican candidate Greg Abbott, who if we are to believe the polls, is leading Democrat Wendy Davis by a double-digit lead.
While most Texans beyond Sarita are worried about the Ebola virus outbreak, the mid-term elections, and the like, down here on the order we're concerned with the immediate problems confronting our neighbors to the south and the social and economic effects of "The Troubles."
When asked about whether he was concerned about the problems facing Mexico and the border, Abbott conceded that a crisis, indeed, did exist.
He suggested that only a strong economic surge in the Mexican economy could assuage the cycle of violence an poverty that fed off each other into a deadly spiral that affects every facet of that society and spills over to the north.
Like Gov. Rick Perry, he said that one of his first acts if elected to office would be to invite Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to see the problems facing border residents on either side first hand.
Among those present were the usual GOP suspects like Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos and former Herald reporter Bill Young and the Republican faithful.