Inspector Cuellar
Gary Martin of the San Antonio Express-News reports on the latest sign of the Cuellar campaign’s ineptitude:
A political attack on former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez by Henry Cuellar’s campaign backfired Friday when an angry Illinois business owner said her company was being dragged through the political mud with false accusations.
Cuellar’s campaign accused Rodriguez of working for a Chicago company that persuades firms to outsource jobs and fire employees.
“It couldn’t be further from the truth,” Sandra Figueroa Bast, owner of Bast Services Inc., told the San Antonio Express-News. “It’s slanderous,” she said, noting Cuellar “should have had the decency to call me before writing something that is false.”
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Rodriguez and Bast said the former congressman was hired by the Chicago company, which was seeking to expand a Kindergarten-through-12th-grade science program for at-risk children into San Antonio schools.
“It had nothing to do with outsourcing jobs,” he said.
Bast noted, “I don’t have any work overseas.”
Check out the article. It’s just as ridiculous as it sounds. The Cuellar campaign tried to accuse Rodriguez of outsourcing American jobs when in reality he was helping San Antonio kids learn science. As far as I can tell, the ace Cuellar team saw global and IT on the same page and figured it could only mean sending jobs overseas.
Meanwhile, here is what the voters of the district will be learning about Cuellar this weekend (TV ads in English and Spanish).
