Ever since he swore in then-Cameron County Judge election winner Carlos Cascos before the latter took off to become Texas Secretary of State, local Democrats have suspected District Attorney Luis V. Saenz was a DINO (Democrat In Name Only.)
In photos posted in social and mass media sites, Saenz was featured prominently administering the oath to Cascos and then looking over his shoulder as he signed the oath of office. (See graphic below.)
The curious thing about Saenz's appearance as a "friend" in the local Republican page is that chairperson Morgan Graham is explicit in what the site is for. It is for "our Republican candidates to post information about upcoming events such as meet-and-greets, socials and fundraisers.' (See graphic below)
The cozy relationship grew even closer during the last Democratic Party primary when candidates linked to Luis' Team Saenz invited Cascos to a rally in La Feria held for Democratic Party candidates.
At the time people wondered why the Democrats were hosting Cascos when their two candidates in the primary – former Brownsville mayor Eddie Trevino and Robert Sanchez –were not.
In fact, the candidates – including Lali Betancourt for county clerk and her supporter Mari Saenz, Luis' brother – posed with Carlos.
Now, county Democrats have been flirting with the GOP back to the days when Tony Garza ran for office against Ray Ramon and beat him with the endorsement of four of the five sitting county commissioners. Garza then went on to win another term and – like Cascos after him –went on to become the Republican governor's SOS.
In one of Cascos' later races for reelection, he beat Gilberto Hinojosa for court judge, a county political player who is now the chairman of the Texas Democratic party. This is a humiliation that Hinojosa has never forgotten.
But this is the first time in recent memory that a faction of the local Democrats has openly courted a staunch Republican like Cascos. Unfortunately for Team Saenz, most of the candidates they supported in the races in this year's primary went down to ignominious defeat.
Now Team Saenz is pegging its hopes on 197th District Court candidate Adolfo Cordova to beat Saenz nemesis Carlos Masso, who twice lost to Luis in previous races for DA in the upcoming runoff, and in the county court judge's race in the November general election between Cascos and Treviño.
Will Saenz's splinter Democratic faction carry the day against Treviño? Or will the yellow-dog Democrats find a way to unite to fight off the GOP candidate and the renegade Democrats?
18 comments:
It really should not matter whether or not the candidate is republican or democrat, what should matter ultimately is the efficiency of his work and the morality of his actions, We all know the known democrats around town lack a just that, and then some!
I vote for the person not for the party plain and simple
Saenz is loyal to only one thing....HIMSELF! Luis Saenz will sway whichever way the wind blows if it will serve him. He is loyal to no one...not even the community.....just to himself. Luis Saenz is a DICK!!!!
I AGREE!!
Me too!!
If he were to run as a republican out of the valley he would lose. Republicans will never vote for ANY ethnic candidate. Es up pendejo bien hecho. Republicans are racist period.
OMG; REPUBLICANS are racist, Cesar de Leon a Republican?
Connect the dots they lead to a city commissioner and other cocos.
Funny....lots of elected black and Hispanic and Asian Republicans out there. You sir, are ignorant.
Name one in texas out of the valley pendejo.
Ted cruz is white does not count... ignoramus
If Saenz does fracture the Democrat party and brings in true mullti-party elections to Cameron County, that would be the only worthwhile thing he has done.
This is the ignorance which retards the Valley. Oh, yes. All the Republicans are racist
BULL SHIT! My wife is an Hispanic Jew with West African, Indigenous, Spanish and Indian roots. I an English. Irish, Iberian, French and Japanese. We are Republicans and so we are racists! Bull shit. This is representative of the ignorance of the Valley.
you democrats are idiots! Let's not forget that Texas was Democrat and almost a one-party state. Never the less it was not an inclusive party! morons, they became inclusive out of necessity, after the Republicans beat their asses to the ground, prior to that Democrats were the Republicans!!!! It is not the party of the poor you dumb dumbs!!! look around and see where the people that represent you live, how they live and what they do with their money, I assure you it's not donated for the better of the community! Live as you wish but stop insulting your selves by voting for this people. Vote for the candidate, not the political institution that they claim to represent!
Look at the platform of the republicans and decide if you understand what it stands for pendejo. This became a republican because of the influx of agriculture states could no longer maintain regulations imposed by your good buddies the republicans. Look at ABC documentary The Midnight Run. A majority of citizens in those agriculture states are on welfare and food stamp. Democratic programs to help citizens recover.
Be proud of your republican president and all the mafia buddies he's brought into the government. THAT is how retarded your republican party is NOT THE VALLEY WHERE YOU LIVE MORON.
YOU DUMB FUCK HILLBILLY GO BACK NORTH IF IT BOTHERS YOUR RED ASS.
Lol... hilarious 😆
It hit a sore spot,you documentary watching Democrat, brainwashed to the finest.
The truth hurts and helps you laugh wanna be boy scout.
So when you get mad at your wife what do you call her wetback, mosquito, Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow, india mexicana, and/or Métis? That would not be very white of you if you didn't.
Just like the rest of your shit you brought over here from cockroach europe, pendejo. racist republican...
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