Posted on 01/13/2014 4:19:08 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
DONNA, Tex. — In this Rio Grande Valley town of trailer parks and weedy lots eight miles from the Mexico border, people call them runners or politiqueras — the campaign workers who use their network of relatives and friends to deliver votes for their candidates. They travel around town with binders stuffed with the names and addresses of registered voters, driving residents to and from the polls and urging those they bump into at the grocery store to support their candidates.
Despite rumors that some politiqueras went over the line in encouraging voters, the tradition continued in Donna and other border towns and cities, and campaigns for nearly every local office or seat have paid politiqueras to turn out the vote in contested races.
But in recent weeks, the suicide of the school board president here and accusations of vote buying against three politiqueras have rocked the system. The charges may threaten the existence of politiqueras in Donna, an impoverished community of 16,000, where politics and jobs are inseparable. The school system is the largest employer, and city government is the second largest; local politics rivals high school football as a favored pastime.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
i suppose it is perfectly fine to buy votes with government money tho....
What is a surprise, however, is that the Slimes even bothered to run the story with no pubbies in its heart!!
OMG!
Not...”binders stuffed with the names...”
the suicide of the school board president here and accusations of vote buying against three politiqueras have rocked the system.
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GOOD!!!
Better than binders stuffed with WOMEN!
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