Claudia Corichi García's drunk calling; Amalia García ignores legal deadline

Claudia Corichi García is the daughter of until rather recently governor of Zacatecas, Amalia García Medina. She is a national senator of the PRD, and has past years faced quite a few charges of nepotism, of being utterly unqualfified for a senator (the bar is admittedly low), and of abusing her position for own gains - though she has never been convicted of any wrongdoing. Yet her critics found further ammunition this weekend: An intercepted telephone call where Corichi, according to some reports "in a state of inebriation," offers the PRD-PT-Convergencia candidate Ángel Aguirre to send 100 "volunteers." Aguirre responds by stating a desire for "sweets and books" to be handed out.

There are many angles here: It just happens to be that the phone conversation was leaked after a barrage of evidence has surfaced for the active and illegal -and far worse- intermission of other PRI governors, chiefly Enrique Peña Nieto, in the election. It should also be worrisome for Aguirre and his campaign that his phone conversations are obviously tapped, either by PRI directly or certainly by collaborators of the party. Yet in the end it is also an indictment of the morals of Claudia Corichi. Despite the relatively innocuous transgression, her attempted intermission (in return for what?) comes at time when her mother is facing her own, and far more serious, woes: This weekend was the deadline for the former Zacatecas governor to come up with evidence she claimed would fully dispel the many claims of embezzlement she has been facing from the new state administration. Guillermo Huizar, the state comptroller, said his office had not received any documents. That means in practice that the former governor may face legal sanctions in a few weeks' time.

It would be too cheap with a "the apple doesn't fall far" comment here, especially as none of the two - mother or daughter - has actually been convicted of any wrongdoing. Yet Claudia Corichi's drunk calling offering help to the Guerrero candidate certainly does little good for her own reputation or that of her mother.

Love and arrogance: Salvador García Soto's take on Amalia García and her daugher:

A withering critique of Amalia García and her senator daughter Claudia Corichi in Salvador García Soto's column today: They were felled by "love and arrogance":

"But what was the sin of a politician known for her career as a fighter on the left? There were two: Love and arrogance. Overprotection of her daughter, who was made senator with little political experience, and acquiescing to her many excesses, impudences, and interferences in her administration led to many of the problems it faces.

And arrogant pride, because even in defeat, after a mistake of choosing a bad candidate for the PRD that was disregarded by the likes of Marcelo Ebrard and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who advised her to reconsider and to support an alliance PRD-PT-Convergencia  when faces with the risk of losing, Amalia never had the humility to accept that she lost and that behind her defeat was not only a young politician and current governor Miguel Alonso Reyes, but her nemesis, whom she confronted but whose upper strength knocked her down, former Governor Ricardo Monreal Avila."

Ouch.