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
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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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.
She says, “I need voters who are committed to my race.”
Welcome to the United States of Mexico.