IS IT A BATTLE OF THE SIGNS? OR SIGNS OF DESPERATION?

     

(Ed.'s Note: No one thought that former Cameron County District Clerk Eric Garza would make much of a race against incumbent Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio when he resigned the position to which he had just been reelected. But guess what? 

The race is turning into a close match with the challenger making inroads by dint of hard campaigning and establishing a presence across the county. The photos above purport to show that supporters of the incumbent are feeling the heat and engaging in a time-honored practice of knocking down a challenger's signs and replacing it with their candidate's. 

Then, the bottom  video seems to show a Lucio campaign worker putting up a Lucio sign where the Garza sign had been knocked down as Chief Deputy Gus Reyna walks around his white truck to help him erect his boss' new sign. That is his white truck with the Lucio sign. Reyna seems to have a bit less hair now than when the campaign began.

With just a bit over a month before the July 14 election and 17 days before early voting begins June 29-July 10, things are bound to get a lot hotter on what is now considered a tightening race.

Also on the ballot for   cameron County voters is the District 27 Texas Senate race between incumbent Eddie Lucio Jr. and Brownsville attorney Sara Stapleton, the 138th District Court contest between Gabriela Garcia and Helen Delgadillo and the Lucio-Garza donnybrook.

We know signs don't vote, but will the various candidates' campaign signs survive until then?