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Frankly I don't have too big of an issue with Alvarado. But it does bother me when Republicans try to play the deciding role in a race between two Democrats. I'm not a player, I just Tweet a lot: @KathTX
Don't be concerned, though. They move on quickly to other shiny objects. Even as I type this, they're all drooling over Battleground Texas and its myriad of income opportunities.
Why, Marc Campos barely has time to rehearse his "the secret to increased Latino voter turnout is: hire me and I'll tell you" speech in the mirror, between wooing the less-than-10% of SD-6 voters that are Republicans and watching the Astros spring training games. Afflicting the comfortable via...
There are a couple points I want to make, Katherine, and sadly, one of them is the old-man-card.
First, though, your logic on what should happen in a Democratic district is shortsighted. Should Democrats not try to be a deciding factor in Texas because we're currently and for the last couple decades have been a Republican state? Should Democrats in the House not pick one Republican over another for Speaker because it is a Republican body? It can't be both ways.
I can't find fault in Republican legislators having a preference for someone they know they can work with on some level. And the commenter @curtisaustin above is correct - every special election like this I've witnessed in the last couple decades, legislators (and lobbyists for that matter) show up en masse to help the candidate they know best. (and often it is as simple as that - it's a person they know over a person they have never met and has nothing to do with partisanship)
And as for the old-man card, I remember Carol Alvarado from Democratic activities and conventions from as far back as a decade prior to my serving on the DNC. So when you attack the Democratic credentials of someone I've seen working for Democrats for the last 20 years because a Republican chose to support her, you should not be surprised that it would rankle me.
Beyond that, though, I believe you should have a very high standard as to what Democrats you ever choose to impugn on this publication. This situation simply does not warrant such an attack. And rather than ask open-ended, accusatory questions such as the one at the end of the article, why don't you go ahead and propose the answer to that question? I would be interested in what exactly you think the Alvarado is up to.
Let's do everything we can to get Republicans to like us, and hope for a few scraps from their table.
Dude, I would describe your symptoms as classic battered-spouse syndrome. I'm guessing you carry a Wuss Caucus card in your wallet.
NEVER. NEGOTIATE. WITH TERRORISTS. Especially when you are terrified of confronting their insanity, bigotry, ignorance, greed, cronyism, and hypocrisy. Afflicting the comfortable via...
