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| Carlos Cascos |
With the early announcement of the nearly septuagenarian Carlos Cascos as, once again, in the running to be the local party's nominee for Cameron County Judge in 2022, it's almost "Happy Days Are Here Again!" for the Cameron County Republican Party.
Yet, the local G.O.P. is an aging group, likely facing the reality of the post-Trump era in a mere 60 days, with few young voices. Local zealots, like Tad Hasse, Jessica Puente Bradshaw, recent organizer of a reportedly rather short "Trump Train," Daniel Lenz, Elizabeth Dierlam and Letty Perez Garzoria still share partisan pro-Trump insight on social media, although Roman Perez's rocket no longer veers right, seemingly now headed for the Planet Xanadu.
Cameron County Chairperson, Morgan Cisneros Graham, while dutifully supporting the current commander-in-chief, will give a Cascos for Judge campaign her 110% when he runs in 2022.
The epicenter for the Cameron County Republican party is likely closer to Harlingen than Brownsville and the monthly meetings I've attended through the years feel like my high school reunion, populated by aging Anglos whose faces I struggle to recognize.
Where are their children and grandchildren, one wonders. Where is the young Republican or conservative true believer who can argue convincingly that the G.O.P. is good for Cameron County? Roman Perez could have been that young person had he been able to function in the group with less toxicity.
I'm curious to know where these aging folk go for reliable news, now that President Trump has added Fox News to his long list of "FAKE NEWS," that's always included ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS and NPR.
Cascos, who, several years ago, conscientiously recognized that the local Democratic Party had "left him," then, according to whispers, voluntarily stepped down from his Secretary of State position in the Abbott regime, must know deep down what Trump is and isn't, but must walk a fine line to maintain his hardest core of support in Cameron County.
We will watch with great curiosity the progression of the Cameron County Republican Party, a group that seems to have only one true leader.
Cascos lost by almost 14,000 votes to Eddie Trevino in the last election.
ReplyDeleteThose 14,000 straight ticket votes are no more.
DeleteApparently people forget that the governor has had 4 Secretaries of State thus far and Cascos is still the longest serving one.
Yes. That margin surprised me.
DeleteHe lost them to Beto, not TreviΕo. Lol
DeleteCascos is a loser. lol
DeleteMorgan is been a good Chairwoman . Her and Carlos make a good team! Unfortunately some crazy lady is in cahoots with them?
ReplyDeleteI don’t understand why is the Puente-Bradshaw woman trying to cause problems in the GOP. She is very corrupt! Before she ran the first time neither her, nor her husband were working, they didn’t have much, however, right after her first race, suddenly they got a “financial portfolio”, and now after her last run, It’s an “Investments Portfolio” WOW! Many of us wonder how did they do it ?π€π€
As a minor correction, Fox News added itself to the list of Fake News. Don't say fake crap and don't make the list!
ReplyDeleteTill very recently, Fox has been the U.S. equivalent of the Soviet T.A.S.S., with embarrassingly gushing coverage of our country's most incompetent, corrupt administration ever. Now, that Chris Wallace, the judge and a couple others have finally displayed some journalism, Trump squirms and chafes at the questioning and childishly taunts "Fake News!"
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