Regarding D6, I think what I talked about regarding district sentiment was the major reason. I know the E-N played off the ethnic component in an article during the race, but I don’t think it played a major role. Beating an incumbent is pretty hard in San Antonio. You really have to screw up to lose, in many cases. I talked to Brockhouse after the race and both of us did notice an anti-Castro sentiment in many of the voters. They saw Lopez as too closely aligned to the mayor and cast an indirect protest vote in the D6 race.

Briones’ behavior is less than stellar on many issues. In this day and age of social media, each Internet access, not having this information readily available for ALL to view is just simply unacceptable.

There’s a link to Kueber’s blog above where he’s VERY transparent on his campaign time, to the point it’s almost refreshing.

BTW, how do you stand on Briones’ elusive attitude about the campaign contributions? I outlined those issues in an column in Plaza de Armas, which is paywalled, but here’s the one paragraph where I discussed those issues:

What could really be damaging for Briones isn’t the ideological trail, but his related dodgy behavior. In a recent interview (http://video.klrn.org/video/2364991441) with the candidates on Texas Week with Rick Casey, Briones implies pretty strongly that a contribution to the Romney presidential campaign is his, and, indirectly, a contribution to Obama’s campaign is from his father.

On the related FEC reports, there is clearly a difference in the donors’ names, with the Romney contribution (http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?12952481667) listing “Briones Jr.” and the Obama contribution (http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?12951664035) listing “Briones.” What makes the source of the contributions suspicious, however, is a critical detail every donor who contributes more than $200 per election must list: occupation and employer. For both contributions, the employer listed is Briones Engineering (with a slight variation on the Romney report) and the occupation listed is “President.” That’s a detail assigned (http://www.brionesengineering.com/Briones%20Consulting%20and%20Engineering%20Our%20Team.html) to only one individual: Rolando Briones Jr.

Briones did attend some at the beginning of the campaign but started skipping them towards the later part of the race. I have authority on this from both Nirenberg and Mike Kueber, who attended them. Briones has also skipped several radio and talk show forums where the other two showed up, most notably one recently on TPR.

Regarding where Briones stands on ALL the issues, it’s hard to say since he doesn’t answer candidate questionnaires (SA Express-News, Current or other endorsement groups. While your questions may have been answered, that doesn’t cover all the issues of the district or the city. Looking at this website, I cannot find any other answers.

So, I’ll have to be honest on this, you seem to be the one playing politics. Transparency is a key need of our candidates today and if they won’t show up to large audience forums such as broadcast forums or answer questionnaires, they can essentially say anything to satisfy you but not have to worry about going on record.

I hope that makes sense.

If you really follow me, you should know I do those comparisons when evaluating candidates. COULDN’T with Briones because he won’t show up, including a forum yesterday on Texas Public Radio’s The Source.

So, to be fair to your first point, let’s get a side by side of the candidates. I can get both Kueber and Nirenberg to the table with answers. I’ll assume you can get Briones to the table.