Gov. Greg Abbott’s longtime political strategist seems to be greedy for straws — and drawing criticism for being “creepy” — as he scours for dust on state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for the state’s prime elected workplace.
Throughout an trade earlier this week on social media platform X, Dave Carney — Abbott’s prime marketing campaign marketing consultant for at the least a decade — requested one other person to produce him with pictures allegedly exhibiting Hinojosa “partying” as a excessive schooler attending a swim get together.
The unsettling on-line back-and-forth started Tuesday in feedback on a put up by Texas Tribune journalist Kayla Guo, who reported on former President Barack Obama’s campaigning alongside Hinojosa and State Rep. James Talarico in Austin.
X person @ArrestedAustin commented that he knew Hinojosa when she attended Hanna Early School Excessive Faculty in Brownsville in the course of the ’90s.
“Gina used to get together exhausting when she was at Hanna, I consider there’s an outdated field with polaroids again at my mother’s home, a bunch of us would go swimming on the resaca off 281!” @ArrestedAustin wrote.
Carney then urged @ArrestedAustin to “please share” the pictures of Hinojosa and her teenage pals.
“Simply 90s teenagers doing valley stuff, partied in Matamoros rather a lot too,” @ArrestedAustin responded.
Hinojosa’s marketing campaign declined to touch upon Carney’s request for pictures of the kids.
Certainly, asking for pictures of underage women at a swim get together doesn’t look like the most effective search for a political strategist contemplating the controversy that continues to swirl round President Trump and the Epstein Recordsdata.
It additionally makes Carney, who’s constructed a profession guiding cutthroat political campaigns, look determined for one thing — something — that may forged Hinojosa in a unfavourable gentle.
Which is honest, contemplating current polling reveals Abbott trailing Hinojosa by 5 share factors, regardless of having amassed a $100 million-plus warfare chest for his marketing campaign.
Carry on digging, Carney.
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