ANOTHER TAKE ON THE DEM-REP DIVIDE AMONG LATINOS

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

Guest Opinion

Oh please, it isn't Vela's fault. 

Let's look at that election again, specifically, the Latina candidates. Let's compare. 

There are three Congressional districts side by side, along the border. Disrict 34 - Brownsville District 15 - McAllen District 28 - Laredo. 

There were 5 Latinas running in these districts. Dist 34 - Mayra Flores, Republican Dist 15 - Michelle Vallejo, Democrat / Monica De La Cruz, Republican Dist 28 - Jessica Cisneros, Democrat / Cassandra Garcia, Republican.

Now, how did each party support their Latina candidates? 

Jessica Cisneros (D-28) is Spanish-fluent, the child of immigrants, and saw Nancy Pelosi personally calling and raising money for her male opponent, despite him being raided by the FBI recently as well his being as an anti-Roe pro-life conservative. 

Michelle Vallejo (D-15) was opposed by the DCCC who supported her male opponent. 

Meanwhile, Mayra Flores (R-34) had the RNC's full support and priority fundraising. The Democrats intervened to kneecap their own border Dem Latina Congressional candidates. Cisneros barely lost by 280 votes and Vallejo squeaked out a victory of +30, through a recount. 

All three are immigrants or daughters of immigrants, all around the same age. The most egregious is how Jessica Cisneros was treated imo. To have Pelosi herself calling on behalf of a guy with an FBI investigation looming over him? You know that axe is going to fall sometime between now and Nov (probably mid-October/ Early voting). 

The Republicans saw border Latinas, immigrant, Spanish-fluent, young females as dream candidates. Yet the Democrats saw their own two, very similar Latinas as bugs that needed to be squashed, early, in the primaries. 

Republicans "heavily" invested in Flores (22:1) while Democrats undercut and directed funding against their two Latinas in the primaries. Republicans are now proudly running their three Latina 'dream team' as a slate, a 'triple threat' and heavily investing in their campaigns.

Meanwhile, when Dan Sanchez was running for the Congressional special seat against Flores, the DCCC and DNC provided "little to no support" he said, even though the DCCC did spend to defeat two progressive Democrat Latinas in the primaries. In other words, the DCCC and DNC got personally involved to defeat Congressional Latina candidates of their own party, but won't pitch in to support a Dem candidate like Sanchez running against a Republican. 

What is the lesson here? How about Democrats not interfere and not waste money in primaries to defeat your own, and let the local people decide? Save your resources to spend on Democrats when they are up against actual Republicans instead of other Democrats, hmmm? 

magine if all the money and time the DC Democrats spent working to defeat their own two Latinas, had instead been directed to Dan Sanchez to help him defeat a Republican? All Dan Sanchez needed was a percent or two. Word is Democrats eat their own, and this Nancy Pelosi fracaso is one of the saddest examples. 

BTW Jessica Cisneros was pro-choice! Yet Nancy Pelosi intervened personally, calling into the Rio Grande Valley herself, to defeat Cisneros in favor of a male pro-life candidate. This morning after the Supreme Court Roe v Wade, we had an email from Nancy Pelosi which said, no less.... donate $15 to Nancy Pelosi because "Our ONLY option is to marshal a response so historic — that we DEFEAT every anti-choice Republican that made this happen....." 

The anti-life instigator who made this happen is you, Nancy. LOLOLOL coming from Nancy Pelosi, the same woman who stamped out Latina pro-choice candidates in favor of conservatives, and left the Democrat swinging in the breeze against a Republican. Puhleeze..... por favor no no no.