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FEATHERS FLY IN THE GOP CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN RACE
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The race for the Republican nomination for the newly-created Congressional District 34 is heating up.<br />There are three candidates for the position, Adela Garza, Jessica Puente Bradshaw and Paul B. Haring.<br />Haring, a one-issue candidate (anti-abortion) has run unsuccessfully at least three times for Congress (2004, 2006, and 2010). Bradhsaw ran for Congress in 2010 and fin<img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 264px; float: right; height: 501px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737233043897488034" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WrBzyCNW_wUe8-NQV-DqrCVqHz_hXC4twt7FwkFEr0_1PclL4D4oRteJ0qkYBqlSBCFSHwCn2ZtlSfmqYezL1JTsQMmrLCt8afNoJ8hELs6q0xGDQVzBZjfEe2XnlwmflkSpOkPrv9I/s400/adela.png" border="0" />ished fourth in the pack.<br />Some of our readers travelled to Austin recently and brought us back a copy of the Beeville newspaper where and ad for Garza ran pointedly urging conservatives to vote for someone "you can trust/a Republican who can win."<br />The ad then went on to say that Garza, 50, a resident of Cameron County (36 years) and who owns a small business, an independent pharmacy, has been a longtime civic and community leader unlike Bradshaw, who has held no elective office and serves on no public boards. The ad points out that Haring served as a <em>Democratic</em> state representative from 1961-1967.<br />She lists herself as a first-time candidate for Congress and formerly served as a board member with the Los Fresnos Independent School District and is currently on the Texas Southmost Community College board of trustees.<br />Adela is currently a field representative for Congressman Blake Farenthold. Bradshaw, the ad points out, is 37 years old and lists her residence on her registration card as Austin, Texas, but "now claims to reside in Cameron County."<br />But it is in the following comparisons that the contrasts between Garza and Bradshaw become marked. Garza, saying she is a Pro-life Catholic, asks whether her opponent is "Mormon? Catholic?"<br />Garza sates that while she has shown that she can raise money for campaigning against the Democrats and has raised $70,000 as of April, Bradshaw has "failed to file campaign finance reports on time in 2010 and 2012 and failed to pay debt from prior campaign.<br />"In a late filed campaign disclosure form, reported that she had raised $1,480 in donations and given herself a $8,500 loan."<br />It is apparent that Garza's team has done their research on their opponents. for example, while Bradshaw states in her campaign literature that she sells real estate the ad states that records show her license to do so expired in 2010 and has not appeared since on state records. As far as her community involvement, Bradshaw lists only being a den mother for Cub Scout Pack 192 in Austin.<br />With 30 days left before the primaries of both parties, we're sure that the claims by all the candidates in the races will be closely scrutinized. If Adela's ad is any idication of what's coming, Bradshaw might well review all the claims she's made in her literature lest she be surprised with more revelations.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4730005960314798173?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/feathers-fly-in-gop-congressional.html

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AND NOW, A REVOLUTIONARY WAY TO RUN FOR RENE
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<div><br /><div><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>We've got to admit that the Advertising 101 class we took when we were in college was not really our cup of tea.</div><br /><div>Imbued as we were with the notion that anyone of us could be the next Woodward or Bernstein, we barely eked out a "B" in the course. Other, more practical students, did embrace the advertising concepts with a flair. Over the years the concepts have been refined and we're sure that what passed for advertising appeals in the 70s and 80s are now passe.</div><br /><div>Now, we've all heard of no-name candidates and dark horses. But have you ever heard of a no-face candidate? What would the strategy be there, we wonder?</div><br /><div>Could it be that the candidate is so well known that you really don't need to show his face? Or that the name has been around so long that even the dead would rise from their graves, upturn their tombstones, and vote for him?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s1600/shadowrene.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 287px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 195px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230862373527666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s400/shadowrene.jpg" /></a><br />These thoughts come to mind as we cruise around town at our daily chores and see the campaign signs or sit in our living room reading the Sunday paper which is favored by candidates to run their costly ads.</div><br /><div>The Sunday <em>Brownsville Herald</em> ad for State Rep. Rene <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira</span> caught our eye this Sunday. Take gander at it. We've heard of ghost workers and phantom workers, but a ghost candidate?</div><br /><div>The insertion of a blank spot where Rene's face should have been left us wondering whether a brand new strategy was being implemented in his candidacy. </div><br /><div>At the northeast corner of the Cameron County parking lot on Harrison Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s1600/shadowrene2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737231463829843074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s320/shadowrene2.jpg" /></a>ere is also an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveria</span> sign. This one, also, has a square cut into where his face would have been. Is this a pattern, or merely circumstance?</div><br /><div>Then, at the corner of Frontage and 7<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira's</span> sign is the only one gracing the chain link fence of Pinkerton Memorials, the tombstone manufacturer in Brownsville. Subliminal suggestion?</div><br /><div>As we said, we were terrible in advertising, but we understand that Rene's account if being handled locally by Melissa Zamora's Elite Promotions. Maybe it's a new twist that we don't understand.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 600px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230546816245938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bI1f9VriCTFQszYndxx5urp2IadbCOmOHMu1u8539gAdb3LApg40bMzEA27vwx7d_YHdtmkgva9KkgV9OZezm65r7dbMoJTJFOKG7lDTvpulJ-Su6Y9hS61QUvd5VB-PcY35lq0rhBc/s400/shadowrene1.jpg" /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-175863745940569807?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/and-now-revolutionary-way-to-run-for.html





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