Hidalgo County Dems swap Davis for constable in push card

[TexasTowelie]

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EDINBURG — A voting guide the Hidalgo County Democratic Party distributed in Precinct 4 omitted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis.

The guide asks voters to cast their ballots for either the entire Democratic ticket or the Democratic nominees in various state and local offices. In three of Hidalgo County’s four precincts, Davis, a state senator from Fort Worth, is included. But she was bumped in the Precinct 4 editions to make room for Constable J.R. Gaitan, the only Democrat who appears on one but not all county ballots.

“Because of the large number of candidates, both statewide and countywide, we were just unable to fit all candidates while still focusing on our local candidates,” county Democratic Chair Ric Godinez wrote in an email.

“For example, to highlight Gaitan (who runs only in Precinct 4) we had to sacrifice space for one of the statewides,” he wrote. “Because Battleground Texas was pushing Sen. Davis primarily with plenty of literature, we felt we could get more coverage and bang for our buck for the entire Democratic Ticket (you will notice even in this piece, as in all our pieces, we are encouraging voters to make a straight party vote) while focusing on our local candidates in that precinct.”

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