Why would Iliana Holguin run against Vincent Perez?
Because you make $100,000 plus benefits for showing up to work once-a-week. Hell, if you are Carl Robinson, you are making that much and showing up even less.
"But she's an attorney!"
She's an immigration attorney. And those are a dime a dozen in El Paso. That and your clients are one-time clients, and because they are poor it ain't like they can have you on a retainer.
Also, there's Eddie.
Eddie can probably boost his own consulting business by having his better half in government.
Is any of this wrong?
I dunno.
I mean it is par for course in El Paso.
You CongressX and her husband are both in government.
Vincent and his wife are both in government.
The Reyes and Morenos had everybody in government.
If anything, it is El Paso.
El Paso is mom-and-pop. And so is its government.