Max Powers

Cesar Blanco: Double Standard?...Cont'd

You know what is funny about Blanco?

It is the press coverage he does get.

When the Texas House passed its version of the budget what did local media outlet KTSM do?

Did it reach out to House Appropriations committee member Mary Gonzalez?

Nope. 

It reached out to Cesar.

If the future is female and we are supposed to be empowering womyn and stuff, well, didn't Blanco just set the clock back? 

This reflects poorly on Blanco.  

I am sexist pig or something like that, but I am okay with that.  At least I'm honest.  You cannot accuse me of being a hypocrite. 

But Blanco?

He's supposed to be an ally and what not, but then goes phucks over Mary who has spent many early mornings, evenings and weekends pouring over the budget while Blanco is getting his weekly spa treatment.  

Now, nothing wrong with spa treatment, point being Mary is putting in the work, while Blanco takes the credit.  

 

 

Cesar Blanco: Double Standard?

If my former employer had filed legislation that was "anti-transparency", "anti-good government" she would have been taken to the woodshed by the El Paso Times.  

If that punishment were not enough, AND she sought to push that legislation only to have it voted down, she would have been taken back to the woodshed by the El Paso Times. 

"Max, what the phuck are you talking about?"

Cesar Blanco and his bill - HB 4088.

There is a lot to unpack here. 

First of all, whose idea was it to file this bill? 

My hunch is UMC.  

I could be wrong, but I am just an asshole with a Typepad account.  Meanwhile, Zahira Torres has people to ask this shit. 

Secondly, why?  Again on the face it, it would seem like something the El Paso Times editorial board would throw a hissy fit over.

Thirdly, why did Blanco agree to this?

But I doubt we will get THOSE substantive questions asked.

But let's talk about style. 

If you have a bad bill, your fellow legislators will let you save yourself the embarassment of getting your bill shot down and die an honorable "Left pending in committee" death. 

But not Blanco.  

Oh, no.  He was considered a Ten Best Legislator, he would not do something so stupid and embarrass himself like that. 

Well, he did.  

But because El Paso media has given him a pass, or was not aware, you have not heard shit. 

So it is not embarrassing for him.

Again, if Norma Chavez had does this, it would be front-page and above-the-fold, and Shapleigh would have held a press conference.  

But it is Cesar so it is totally phucking cool.  

 

 

Se Busca Beto

Little less than a year left until the Iowa caucuses.

Beto is to be found...all over place.

I do not get it either.

He wants to run the same race he did for Senate for the Presidency.

Ain't gonna happen, bro.

He spent two years running for Senate.  Yes, Texas is a big-ass state, but the rest of America is bigger still, and you are running with half the time.

He apparently does not want to do televised townhalls because he really wants to shake your hand.

His intentions are in the right place, but trying to shake every motherphucker's hand ain't gonna win it for you.  There just ain't enough time.  That and a lot of motherphuckers do not wash their hands.

Why he wants to avoid national television is beyond me.

Look he ain't as good-looking as me, but compared to the rest of the field, he's GQ....and he does not want to go on camera?

Maybe he's insecure about being an empty-suit of sorts, but that's okay.  Let the people around you come-up with the policies ideas that you will likely not implement anyways once elected president.   

Ah, but he does not want pollsters, consultants and blah blah blah.

But fuck, let's say I am wrong on strategy.

But what I am right about is that his body cannot run that race he wants to run.  

The last two years of his life were grueling, and he wants to run that same race for the presidency.  

Your mind may think it can, but your body will let you know it can't.  

At least with the televised townhalls not only do you get your live audience, but then it is on repeat forever on the internet.  You don't have to show-up to five coffeeshops in New Hampshire, but you just show-up to two.  That and quite frankly with as many candidates and just as much other crazy shit happening during the day, the media ain't gonna follow like it followed you in Texas.

At least going the more traditional route of running a campaign, he can run smarter race, and slow down the clock to where when it gets down to the last minute he can run that race he wants, and will need to in order to win.