Or is it the LatiNamo Strategy?
According to the Chron Political Blog, Gene Locke has a new Latino strategy.
Now the stadium, if not the proposed Hispanic museum, is surfacing again as Parker’s runoff opponent, former City Attorney Gene Locke, spreads the message that voters who want a new stadium for Houston’s professional soccer team should support him.
Blogger David Ortez reports that representatives of Locke’s campaign were at Sunday’s Dynamo game against the Seattle Sounders, passing out flyers suggesting that Parker opposed a new stadium for the team while Locke supported the idea.
The Locke campaign’s Twitter account also sent out messages in the days leading up to last Tuesday’s election noting the candidate’s support for the stadium. The tactic seems intended to reach Latino voters whose support Locke needs to help overcome certainadvantages Parker enjoys in the runoff.
Wait, wait, hold your horses! What about the Museum? Am I losing my statue?
I guess it’s not a “new” strategy, but just a strategy that has been scaled back. Maybe he finally recognized the budget issue behind the costs of such an endeavor? Who knows!
I guess my strategy on reaching Latinos and other constituencies just didn’t make their radar:
I have always said that while we may have different constituencies to turn out, each one wants the same things from City leaders: Better and Efficient Services. Some neighborhoods need this more than most, and it is more than “OK” to recognize that fact, but let’s not get carried away with promising the world just for votes…
That this continues to be the supposed carrot for Latinos continues to disgust me. It didn’t work the first round, so now passing out flyers at a game is the new outreach plan? Latinos were smarter that that in round one!
