Nueces County Republicans’ Trashy Tactics Backfire

The Republicans Party in Nueces County is doing their best to attack State Reps. Juan Garcia (D-Corpus Christi) and Abel Herrero (D-Robstown) in hopes of damaging the pair in anticipation of the November general election.

And, as usual, the GOP’s smear tactics have backfired in fine fashion.

The Nueces County GOP sent out a mailer in Nueces County demanding that Garcia and Abel return contributions from controversial businessman Mauricio Celis.

Evidently, however, the Nueces County GOP didn’t do much fact checking. It just so happens that Garcia had already donated the funds he received from Celis to a state-of-the-art rehab facility in San Antonio treating injured and disfigured American servicemen.

This, of course, is just the latest in a series of idiotic happenings and mishaps that are part of the Nueces County GOP’s ongoing targeting of Garcia:

Bertuzzi’s latest misfire follows a string of embarrassing incidents for the local GOP as they’ve repeatedly attempted to attack Garcia. Earlier this year, former Nueces County GOP Chair Joel Yowell initiated a Texas Public Information Act request for all records, including every letter, email, telephone record, employee record, and office budget item ever generated by Rep. Garcia’s office. After Rep. Garcia’s State House staff gathered the documents for the request, costing dozens of taxpayer hours, Yowell changed his mind about wanting the materials and returned them to Rep. Garcia. Members of the local GOP leadership have had four frivolous ethics complaints against Rep. Garcia dismissed. And in a bizarre episode this winter, a Republican political consultant was fired after he created an email account designed to impersonate Representative Garcia, and then launched a disparaging email campaign involving the Aransas County Sheriff’s race.

And, that’s not all. The mailer happened to hit mailboxes the same week that the murder trial began for the man charged with the death of State Rep. Herrero’s dad.

Tacky. Tacky. Tacky.

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