The embryonic ABQ mayoral race wandered into the theater of the absurd Tuesday night, signaling that perhaps all of us need a bit of a break from the campaign trail.
How else to react to a flying dildo drone in the skies above candidate Manny Gonzales as he made his pitch to a crowd gathered at the Revel Entertainment Center?
Yes, a flying dildo drone. And that was not the end of it. This video (starting around the 4 minute mark) shows the Revel owner grabbing the dildo, inciting a 20 year old mentally challenged man to try to take it back (unsuccessfully). He then goes into a fit of rage, balling his fists and attempting to hit Gonzales. Whether he hit him or not is unclear but Gonzales was not injured.
The optics of the event were so ridiculous that it prompted comical conspiracy theories that Manny set the whole thing up to draw attention to his banner issue of runway crime or that the Mayor Keller camp sent the flying dildo as a message to their rival. What that message might be is a mystery.
“To suggest we were behind it is pathetic and the kind of desperation that has marked Manny’s troubled campaign,” Keller campaign manager Neri Holguin said.
Only five months to go in Mayoral race 2021. So far it's "flying by," isn't it?
RETRIBUTION FOR R'S
The massive defeat suffered by Republican Mark Moores to Dem Melanie Stansbury at the special ABQ congressional election Tuesday brought out the critics of today's GOP. Here's reader Armand Huertaz:
It was just 7 years ago when the GOP garnered control of the state House, had a GOP Guv and a GOP Mayor in ABQ. Now, the party gets its ass kicked all day every day on every race from Prez to Gov to dog catcher.
Until (GOP Chairman Steve) Pearce steps down, there is no point. The fact that he did not resign after the Moores defeat shows that he only cares about his own failed race for governor in 2022.
BTW, would it kill the GOP to nominate a dynamic latino/a for the ABQ congressional seat?
Pearce has made no announcement regarding any intentions to run for Governor next year.
Reader Steve Crespin writes:
Regarding Stansbury’s blow out, the Republican Party of NM is a train wreck and Susana Martinez and her inner-circle of jackasses are to blame for running it off the rails. Until the Republican Party can get folks to forget the disaster of the Martinez administration it will continue to lose like this. Also, the party needs to find a candidate and leaders who will re-unite the party and repair the damage and hard feelings the Martinez administration did. When Martinez left office I said it would take at least two full election cycles (8 years) for the Republican party to begin to recover.
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