Tuesday, December 11, 2018

#SD6 seats Alvarado

Barely.


It was remarkable how fast the city's best-connected neoliberal could spin it.


The Republican was over-praised by her fellow traveler -- natch -- but spoiled the goodwill quickly by complaining of ... *yawn* voter fraud.



Alvarado's reputation as the Bluest of Dogs didn't damage her prospects at all.  She did, after all, give Sylvia Garcia a close run for the money almost six years ago when Mario Gallegos passed away, so in general terms the La Raza in the East End like to reward the Latina whose turn it is.  You also have to tip your cap to Carol's machine, headed up by her sister, the chair of SD-6, who pulled out all the stops.  (You may recall that Patrona Yolanda, a staunch Hillarian, vindictively punished a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2016 state convention.)

Here's the cautionary tale for Democrats.

So much cleaner and revealing than Kuffner's eye-glazing spreadsheet graphs.

Update: Isn't bipartisanship hawt?

The special election to fill Alvarado's seat in the Texas House needs to happen in the next 20 days, so it remains to be seen whether Greg Abbott will call the voters of HD-145 back to the polls between Christmas and New Year's.  If he does, that means we can't retire the #FireStanStanart hashtag yet.

Let's all hope Diane Trautman gets to supervise her first election in January.

2 comments:

Noah Horwitz said...

Top neoliberal shill? I'm offended, Comrade.

LONG LIVE STALIN!

-Puss in Boots Horwitz.

PDiddie said...

It's a long way to the top (if you want to rock and roll) and you've miles to go, Pumpkin. Nose back to the grindstone.

But stay tuned for something that will really wad your panties.