Slow News on my blog....Not a chance...Response to a recent comment

"I recognize when power moves."-Richard J. Daley. A recent comment to a post I wrote concerning Omar Guerrero's troubles, and Laura Hinojosa's smiling ads, warranted me to actually write this post. In all honesty, I was responding on the comments page but realised it was taking up too much space in there. If I have a quick answer, then I'll post it on the comments page of the post. Otherwise, here we go. The comment states that District Clerk candidate Laura Hinojosa is smiling "because she thinks she's getting a free ride. But don't underestimate Mr. Guerrero." Well, to be honest with you, if someone asked me six months ago if I felt that Omar Guerrero could win the District Clerk seat again, you would have received a resounding YES. His pledge to clean up the office if he took over, seemed to work. It pissed off a lot of people, and Omar Guerrero wasn't exactly everyone's favorite person in the Powerhouses around the county, but whatever he was doing seemed to work. Of course, he apparently didn't show up for work half the time, but the reality that his office was removing a lot of the corruption that was going on behind closed doors, well, no one can take that away from him. The problem I have with believing he can win in March is this. Omar Guerrero has basically shot himself in the foot. Not once, but twice. His DWI case is set for trial sometime in April or May, and most recently there was another case brought against him by First National Bank which cost him quite a bit of cash. But I've stated that before, and I only use it to reiterate my first claim. Laura Hinojosa is a shoe-in, she knows it, her camp knows it, and any voter that's been following the Omar Guerrero saga knows it too. His private life has provided quite a bit of ammunition for the Hinojosa camp, and mark my words they will use it. It's only a matter of time before they do, and any politician running for anything would be a fool not to use it to drive their own points home. For Good. When you have the influence of a VIP like Dr. Miguel Navarez as your campaign treasurer, you bet you're bottom dollar they're going to do what it takes to win, and with power like that it's not going to take much. Which is Omar Guerrero's problem. He hasn't taken the time to let the voting public know what's going on with him. And as long as he keeps relying on TV spots, and newspaper ads alone, he's in for a long February. Save that if as an elected official, you've pretty much kept your hide clean these past few years, but if something goes wrong somewhere down the line, a candidate cannot find comfort in just sweeping it under the rug, especially against an opponent like Hinojosa. I'm not trying to 'rag' on him, and in all honesty, he can make this a close race again, but he's got to take the bull by the horns, as we here in Texas are so fond of saying. He's got to let the people in Hidalgo County know what the hell he's been thinking lately. Against an opponent like Hinojosa, and the trouble he's been in so far, relying on his name alone isn't going to put a dent in the voters attitude towards him. He's become what he so wanted to change when he first ran for District Clerk, and WON. Just another politician with something to hide. Sorry, but it's become evident to me that the voters in the RGV aren't going to stand for this type of thing anymore.