Laredo and South Texas take a bad rap for having deceased folks able to vote. Now that would be quite an attraction, if true, for people and their factories or businesses to move here! The potential for economic development would be huge. Every politician would claim it was his support of "second chance" voting that resulted in all those new jobs, more sales at the Mall, and just a bigger economy. Unfortunately, our departed may still appear on voter registrations from time to time, but I have not had one claim to have voted lately. Still, Lyndon Johnson owed his first election to Washington from such a voter turnout.
Laredo does have a deserved reputation for having the country's, or perhaps the world's, greatest political Pachangas. For Yankees, and other strangers to Laredo, a Pachanga is like going to your friend's ranch--shooting guns and drinking beer. Except a political Pachanga omits, mostly, the guns, and substitutes the pols' speeches and pleads for votes.
Election time in Laredo is now through the early summer, so enjoy and let me know if any "old" names do seem to vote one more time.
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