Sonoran saying of the day: Por montarse antes los becerros se pandean

PRI senator Beltrones was one of the major victors of the July 4 state elections, wrestling considerable power from Peña Nieto, given that the districts where Beltrones campaigned won, while those where the Golden Boy participated generally lost.

Regarding 2012, where Beltrones is increasingly the PRI frontrunner, the ex-governor of Sonora responded to journalists with a great vaquero saying: Por montarse antes los becerros se pandean

PRD corrientes

Speaking of PRD, Here's an excellent overview of the internal make-up

 of the PRD and its corrientes. While it is merely descriptive in the sense that it doesn't really analyze any differences between the corrientes, which I argue are real and substantial, it's very much updated. 

I find it odd that the article suggests that Bejarano will go for AMLO while Padierna will go for Ebrard- they are, after all, married, established the precursor to IDN together, and Padierna is as slavishly pro AMLO as they come - but that aside it looks very correct to me. 


(great graphic here, except from egregious error that Socorro Ceseñas is close to Jésus Ortega!)

AMLO 2012, again

AMLO's declaration of his candidacy for 2012, not unexpectedly, gets the full front-page treatment in La Jornada. 
(not so in Milenio or El Universal)


While I respect this immensely important newspaper for so many reasons, its hagiographic treatment of AMLO is more than embarrassing at times.
It did note, though, something that caught my attention as well: 

... a little bit before two in the afternoon, in the climax of his speech, López Obrador said, "Do you agree that we go as a movement for the 2012 elections? The crowd, exhausted after listening to more than 36 speakers, responded very softly, "yes"...

OK, don't want to exaggerate the point, as the crowd certainly surged to life when AMLO repeated the question a time or two, but the first response was a bit... anti climatic. Perhaps because the declaration was, in all essence, old news.  


Oddly enough, of the three newspapers cited above, only one commentary takes note of AMLO's broken promise to stick by the pact of the "best positioned" candidate.
(to compensate, it is a pretty funny commentary)


I stand a bit corrected regarding the PRD, which was indeed represented on stage - though not by anyone from Nueva Izquierda. Or Foro Nuevo Sol. Or from PRD-mexiquense.
I couldn't make out the faces, but apparently Alejandro Encinas was there, with his sidekick Ricardo Ruiz (former leader of PRD-DF), DF transportation minister  Armando Quintero (whose UNyR may at this point back either Ebrard or AMLO), Martí Batres (as always up for the highest bidder), Laura Velázquez (DF sec. of economic development), and of course Dolores Padierna of IDN, wife of the disgraced René Bejarano, whose IDN likes to portray itself as the most "radical" of AMLO's defenders but whose cadres have been involved in more corruption and other scandals than any corriente. 


Clara Brugada, delegation chief of Iztapalapa after the shameful Juanito incident was there, as well as a handful of pejista senators from the PRD and PT. When/if Ebrard gains traction, we'll see how many will bail ship. 


Finally, another question that pops into my mind: Will not this be a clear breach of the new electoral rules regarding "pre-campaigns," as determined by the 2007 Electoral Reform?