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.
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Was this a translation?
“Flores, she said, had waved a wad of money at the opposition’s tent, signaling that his campaign was better funded.”
Follow the money.