In an image from a Monitor video, Sandra Rodriguez
argues with Rep. Kino Flores over what she said was a
provovation of her campaign workers near Alton Friday morning.
Sara Perkins/Monitor
Posted on 02/23/2008 5:46:14 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
A Monitor reporter caught video of the altercation between Rep. Ismael "Kino" Flores and challenger Sandra Rodriguez in the parking lot of Hidalgo County Precinct 3 near Alton.
The reporter has shadowed the two candidates this week as they "get out the vote." Friday, she was with Flores when the fight began outside the early voting location.
(Excerpt) Read more at themonitor.com ...
Sara Perkins/Monitor
How very .... Third World.
A government parking lot became the verbal equivalent of a schoolyard shoving match Friday between two candidates for Texas House District 36.
Cloaked in righteous fury, challenger Sandra Rodriguez plunged into a knot of incumbent Kino Flores’ supporters to get to the man himself.
Comfortable with the home field advantage, Flores had a small smile on his face, arms crossed over his chest. He leaned back against a black school bus painted with his campaign insignia.
Rodriguez berated the state representative over a perceived slight against her campaign workers — Flores, she said, had waved a wad of money at the opposition’s tent, signaling that his campaign was better funded. He denied it ever happened.
Moments later, two Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies intervened.
“Can everybody just go to their sides?” one said, waving to the other side of the Hidalgo County Precinct 3 lot where Rodriguez’s supporters had set up camp.
“There are no sides,” Rodriguez snapped.
read more at http://www.themonitor.com/news/rodriguez_9304___article.html/flores_campaign.html
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Was this a translation?
The paper is in english.
ROFLOL!
Ay chihuahua!
You have to have gunfire for a valid third world election.
The Democrat Party is very UNdemocratic. They have ended our nation’s legacy of a peaceful transition of power.
RATFIGHT !
ya gotta love S. Texas politics.
The new breed of politico is tame compared to the old rivalries between the Blues and the Reds. They don’t shoot each other today...at least not very often.
That was my FIRST thought. Is the the USA?????
She says, “I need voters who are committed to my race.”
Welcome to the United States of Mexico.
“Flores, she said, had waved a wad of money at the opposition’s tent, signaling that his campaign was better funded.”
Follow the money.
No electioneering or loitering within 100 feet of the polling place entrance. 1000 feet for loud speakers.
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