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Leftwich Primed For Run...
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-R1xiAAtsNgG1mXMqUPtYoqv_9yrg61J5RvOAAymeJhISoUX_1fnl1YA9M7nX9TG4TWUMZym18RdBgGFVFgjHwhcp4T-xbgYNIDIg2cHjAVIJZqXwr6eG8Hbnry_b1B9M-yPwwhUaVWr/s1600/aaaalefty.bmp"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 252px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 205px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690854179904297586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-R1xiAAtsNgG1mXMqUPtYoqv_9yrg61J5RvOAAymeJhISoUX_1fnl1YA9M7nX9TG4TWUMZym18RdBgGFVFgjHwhcp4T-xbgYNIDIg2cHjAVIJZqXwr6eG8Hbnry_b1B9M-yPwwhUaVWr/s320/aaaalefty.bmp" /></a> <strong>By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ</strong><br /><em>The Paz Files</em><br /><br /><strong>HARLINGEN, Texas -</strong> His clamorous critics are loud and nasty, but City Commissioner Robert Leftwich knows there are moments when politics calls and others when it tugs, pulling you in directions defined not by personal wishes, but by the times one lives in. The mayorship in 2013 looms on his horizon like a rising sun greeting this town's new dawn. There are those who say he's the one for the job.<br /><br />Leftwich is not broaching the topic yet.<br /><br />Indeed, he has gone out of his way to fend-off rumors and innuendo related to a bid for the office, delaying a decision perhaps just long enough to organize and mount a winning campaign. Harlingen has no other commission member in his position, that of presumed frontrunner. The cards and coffee shop talk say he'll do it.<br /><br />Leftwich, popular in most quarters of the city, has a year to navigate the local political swamp, to forge a strategy whereby he diminishes the power of the so-called Old Guard, a small group of aging political movers & shakers not shy about saying Leftwich will never gain their support.<br /><br />Still, Harlingen needs to find a candidate able to move the trains on time, someone who will allow the community a chance at replacing the past with a progressive future. Leftwich has that at his disposal if he wants it. His reputation on the commission points him in that direction.<br /><br />Will he come out early and set the stage as he wants it? Will he be able to frame the contest on his own terms? Strategizing all angles with plenty of time to amend the campaign would be the best approach. Coordinating support and arranging a public schedule that would hit all areas of the city with mini-Town Hall meetings would serve Leftwich well, allowing him to stay ahead of the relentless salvos he'll get from those opposed to his bid for the city's highest office.<br /><br />We believe Leftwich has the experience and temperment to effect the needed change, to rid Harlingen once and for all of that "Power Elite Crowd" sentiment that both emboldens some and disenfranchises others. Leftwich has no other rival at present, and no one on the current City Commission is remotely ready for the job.<br /><br />A yearlong campaign allows him the opportunity to be seen and, better yet, be heard by everyone in town, to take their questions and their praise or complaints, to assuage their worries. Walking the streets seguing into a series of in-depth press interviews, followed at various points by insightful "issue" columns submitted to the local news outlets would get the sort of saturation he'd need to not only make the fight, but win it.<br /><br />The Year 2012 promises to be a humdinger all the way around from coast-to-coast. National politics will rule the end of the year with the presidential election, but the race for mayor of this struggling Rio Grande Valley town with both an image and an economy problem bodes well for Leftwich. He's been there to see and hear every citizen concern, and he's no doubt had time to form opinions on what has to be done and how.<br /><br />One would think he's ready...<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- 30 -</span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8418586410607151775-6949287917812217371?l=thepazfiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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