FINALLY, ELECTION DAY

ELECTION RETURNS - CAMERON COUNTY AND TEXAS

At this moment Gina Hinojosa has a commanding lead. Boy Texas really had its limits with Trump and his lapdogs.  It is still too early to call it.

Talarico has a commanding lead.  Trump really did a job on the Texas Republican party.  Still too early to call, but Texas is going Blue.

VICENTE GONZALEZ holds a commanding lead.  The AP is not calling it yet, but with 71% of the votes in, Vicente has the election.  This is a double loss for the Republicans because this district was redrawn to benefit the Republicans. 

CAMERON COUNTY RETURNS

As soon as the county posts its link showing the returns I will post it.  For now, as always, I should be able to call Cameron County races between 7:15 and 7:30.

 I can find no link showing returns in Cameron County.  I have been on waiting on Remi Garza to provide me any guidance.  The Herald and Valley Central are also not reporting.

STATE OF TEXAS ELECTION RETURN

THE RETURNS ARE FINALLY POSTED - CAMERON COUNTY GOES SOLID BLUE- THE REPUBLICANS WERE DESTROYED

Once the Texas Secretary of State post its link, I will post it here.

By 8 p.m. we might get some sense of how the election is going. the polls are everywhere. The consensus is Talarico will defeat Paxton.  This is not merely a win for the Democrats.  The win will end the stranglehold the Republicans have on Texas.

No one is predicting a win for either side in the governor' race.  I think the returns will be somewhere between 53-47.  I am not predicting who wins.  I am just saying this will be the spread.

THE BLUE WAVE

If there in in fact a Blue Wave, Gina Hinojosa can win.  But a Blue Wave in a few counties will not do it.  The Talarico Paxton race is unique.  Unlike Hinojosa and Abbott, Talarico can win without a Blue Wave.  There is true a distain for Paxton even among Republicans.  But no such distain exists towards Abbott.

 

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITY

 

 IS TIME TO TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY

If you choose to continue to vote for the same people who oversee corruption whether locally or at the state level, you will get corruption.  It is time to be an informed voter. 

Nothing will ever change if you do not vote for change.

GINA HINOJOSA RAW:  SHE SHOULD HAVE STARTED HER CAMPAIGN WITH THIS

HOW GILBERTO HINOJOSA AND HIS ILL-INFORMED GROUP COST GINA HINOJOSA 10'S OF THOUSANDS OF VOTES

After 2024, the Democrats were told to stay away from social issues because it cost them in South Texas in 2024.  The Democrats cowardness screwed themselves on this issue.

The Democrats have always had the abortion question wrong.  The Republicans played on the Democrats ill-formed view on the issue.

Abortion and choice are two different issues.  I am as antiabortion as you can get.  But I am also as prochoice as you can get.  Every human being should have complete autonomy over their body, period.

I would never comment on a woman having an abortion. Merely commenting on a woman having an abortion imposes on her autonomy over her body. 

Dobbs which overruled Roe v. Wade, was not about abortion.  It was about making women slaves to the political whims of politicians.  Every woman should have been offended by Dobbs.

Gina's raw story is eloquent in how she separates the two issues. 

I know of two other families which endured the birth of a still born, or which died shortly after birth. That was the mother's choice.  In both cases the parents were able to bury their child.  

GINA WAS SO RAW IN HER TRUTH, I AM CONVINCED WOMAN AND EVEN A LOT OF MEN WOULD HAVE RUN TO SUPPORT IT

It is so sad how the Democrats cowardness on the issue of body autonomy may cost Gina the election.

BASED ON HER STORY, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AUTONOMY OVER ONE'S BODY, GINA MERITS EVERYONE'S VOTE

And for the record, had she chosen to terminate the pregnancy I would have been just as supportive because it was not about abortion, but autonomy over her body.

The national Democratic Party needs to blast her story non-stop. My prediction on the turnout is 46-53 % will favor Gina.  The numbers equally apply to Abbott.

ORIGINAL POST

I am certain if this can get out, a lot of Independents will move in her direction. She puts choice into perspective. In Dobbs the Supreme Court took away the choice.  For me Dobbs was about taking away a woman's choice and not abortion.  Dobbs is horrible.

What Gina shows is that you can believe in life, while understanding we cannot take away a woman's choice.  This is the compromise the Republicans cannot seem to understand.

She should have opened her campaign with this.  I think from square one she would have raised a lot more money.

 

 

VICENTE GONZALEZ CAN NO LONGER HIDE IN THE SHADOWS:  HIS SILENCE ON ISRAELI GENOCIDE AND ISLAMOPHOBE MENTALITY MAKES HIM UNFIT TO HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE - HE IS NO MORE A DEMOCRAT THAN DONALD TRUMP

If you vote for Vicente Gonzalez, you support his Islamophobia and Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.  He does not walk with the people.  His list of groups of people he does not support grows.

MUSLIMS ARE DONE WITH THIS BIGOT

Today Vicente Gonzaez REFUSED to sign off on a letter denouncing Donald Trump's efforts to deport duly elected Representative Ilan Omar, a fellow Democrat.

VICENTE GONZALEZ LACK OF KNOWLEGDE OF ELLIS ISLAND SHOULD BE A BASIS TO SURRENDER HIS COLLEGE DEGREE:  CNN SHOULD JUST SHUT DOWN

The news media's game playing with history when it serves their agenda is shameful.  I tell people all of the time if you go to NY and not go to Ellis Island, you are missing the heart of NY.

TRUMP SEEMS OBSESSED WITH THE DIFFERENT SPELLINGS OF ILAN OMAR'S NAME

Every immigrant family who came through Ellis Island knows the facts, CNN has conveniently forgotten.

One key problem on the names happened when the mother came several years after the father.  The mother did not know immigration may have changed the name of her husband when he landed on Ellis Island, so when she arrived with the children, they all had a different name from the father.

The immigration employees routinely changed how people spelled their names.  They were not always familiar with many of the immigrant names.

Under Trump's and Vicente Gonzalez's standards my mother would lose her citizenship and be deported back to Nicaragua. 

I have all of her immigrant paperwork.  Depending on the document she was born on April 9, or 10, 1920 or 1919.  She settled on April 10, 1919.  

Some of her paperwork says Alicia Cervantes Gonzales.  Others say Alicia Concepcion Gonzales.  Some says Alicia C. Cervantes.  Her final citizenship document says Alicia C. Wightman-Cervantes.

Hey Vicente her current address in Pine Lawn Cemetery on Long Island.  

My mother's paperwork constantly changed because some was prepared here in Brownsville, New Orleans, and the US Embassy in Managua.

THE CASE OF ELLIS ISLAND, MAKES IT A ROLL OF THE DICE HOW YOUR NAME WAS SPELLED

There is nothing new in variations in a person name during the immigration process.

If Vicente Gonzalez does not know this, then he is too stupid to hold public office. 

NOTE:  I did not say Omar's family came through Ellis Island.  But nice try.  I said if you look to Ellis Island historically, people's name changed when they entered through Ellis Island.

 

REPUBLICAN TOM PHILLIPS ENDORSES TALARICO FOR US SENATE

 Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn remains a strong alley with Tom Phillips.  This one endorsement may put Talarico over the top.  I can hardly wait to hear Trumps' response.