El Paso Democratic Party condemns super PAC

The El Paso Democratic Party released a statement condemning the alleged tactics of a local super PAC, Keep El Paso Honest.

The party said that thousands of Republican voters received a political mailer encouraging them not to vote in their own party’s primary election, but to vote in the Democratic election. They claim that the PAC purchased and sent the mailers with the specific intention of voting against a particular Democratic candidate in order to try to ensure a run-off primary election in the race for Congressional District 16.

On the website for Keep El Paso Honest, it states that the group supports Dori Fenebock and is against Veronica Escobar.

Illiana Hoguin, the Democratic party chairwoman released the following statement:

“The tactics employed by the Super PAC Keep El Paso Honest are reprehensible and are contrary to the notion of fair and just elections. The El Paso County Democratic Party has always maintained a positive and amicable working relationship with the El Paso County Republican Party, and I hope that Republican Chair Adolpho Telles promptly disavows and condemns the tactics of this Super PAC. The two parties should not seek to meddle in each other’s elections, but rather should allow their own voters to choose their own candidates,” Holguin said.

ABC-7 reached out to Telles for a comment.

“I am certainly not going to tell individuals how to vote. I would prefer conservative voters to vote for conservative candidates,” Telles said. “If they prefer to listen to a piece of literature then that is their choice. People have a right to vote the way they choose to vote.”