The world is watching South Texas and who should betray us all again but Aaron Pena!
Of all the times that he has flipped, this one beats all.
It wasn’t enough that he betrayed the people of South Texas to save his own skin by becoming a Craddick D, now he has betrayed the one PRESIDENTIAL candidate that has the power to save the Valley from everything Craddick and the Bush administration have done to hurt us.
Way to go Aaron!
The term Craddick D refers to all of the state representatives who said they are Democrats but turned on their constituents and signed a pledge of support for the Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick. These guys betrayed their friends and voters because they thought that by supporting Craddick they’d get good appointments to powerful committees and this would give them everything they needed to pull ahead in the House. This was a stupid move of gargantuan proportions and Aaron Pena is well known for being a “Craddick D”.
Pena has a history of arrogantly betraying the people of South Texas and the state representatives who are honest Democrats. He seemed to always get away with it until now.
This betrayal of the woman that the people of South Texas honestly love, trust and adore was political suicide. There is absolutely no where in the Valley where Pena will ever be able to hide again.
He called the Guardian and told our Editor Steve Taylor that he had to change the headline. Pena called me and told me he regretted having been there but that he felt he had to support Obama because it looked like he would win. He said his family members and law firm support Obama and he had to do it and that he went as an observer and because he wanted to see history.
I said “an observer stands on the side and watches. You were there in the stands with his backers. That sent a pretty clear signal”. I asked him what he was thinking being up there betraying Clinton and he said “I wasn’t thinking. I can’t change what I did but I can change a headline”. My response was “NO Aaron, you can’t change a headline, only I can change a headline and you should have thought about the consequences of what you were doing!”
