Posted on 11/04/2007 4:32:15 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Campaign workers’ role is controversial
A controversial figure is emerging early in the campaign season for the 2008 elections and she’s not even on the ballot.
Candidates hoping to win their parties’ nomination in March are taking sides on using paid campaign workers, or politiqueras to aid their run for office.
With the deadline to file for the March primaries still months away, established candidates are taking a position on the issue.
District attorney candidate Peter Zavaletta and incumbent District Attorney Armando Villalobos said this week that they will not employ politiqueras, who are typically older women that that are paid to wave campaign signs, block walk and spur voter turnout.
Zavaletta and Villalobos equated the use of politqueras to vote buying.
“I have not hired any politqueras and will not hire any politiqueras,” Zavaletta said.
Zavaletta, who is challenging Villalobos for the Democratic nomination, said he “would not compromise the integrity or moral authority of the District Attorney’s Office by condoning a practice whose legality is questionable, at best.”
Villalobos said “our office doesn’t condone any illegal activity and we are with charged with prosecuting those types of cases when they come to light … Anything like that, we don’t condone and we don’t have any part of it.”
The use of politiqueras in elections has been common practice in South Texas. Their role has been questioned regarding obtaining and delivering mail-in ballots for elderly or disabled voters, which could be misled or manipulated.
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Politiqueras ping!
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Of course there's no correlation to the border counties being blue, huh?
This has always be rumored here. One time some hispanic woman complained that when she entered the voting both, the attendant pulled the lever that controlled the party vote with the curtain at the same time. She didn’t get to vote and was POed.
South Texas is one place that needs photo/SS # voter ID. There are as many Mexican citizens voting in US elections along the Rio Grande than US citizens, but then they’re also buying groceries with US taxpayer-provided food stamps, so I guess they are just voting for a bigger cut of the pie.
I would suggest that they go on strike.
A democrat turning down a paid ‘volunteer’ to pass out the ‘walking around money’ and collect up all the ‘mail in’ ballots from the ‘voters’ who don’t know they are voting this year? What is the party coming to? I bet Hillary won’t be taking that pledge!!
take a gander at the map and check out the red dot, representing this county during the last prez election.
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