State Rep. Joe Moody asks for online votes to raise money

State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, is trying to raise money for his campaign through an online contest.

He is participating in a "Monopoly Buster Ballot" sponsored by State Sen. Kirk Watson.

Watson is giving a $10,000 campaign contribution to one of 28 Democratic incumbents who gets the most online votes in the contest. The runner-up will get a $1,500 contribution.

Ten finalists will be chosen during the first round of the contest which ends at 5 p.m. today. Those candidates will then move to a second round that ends April 3.

"Each of these public servants faces a challenge this year from, let’s say, a certain political party that’s controlled a certain state government for an awfully long time," Watson said in a statement announcing the contest.

Moody faces Republican businessman Dee Margo in the general election this November.

Click here to read more about the contest.

Comments

[PROUD TO BE AN EL PASOAN]

MY SUPPORT GOES TO JOE MOODY AND NAOMI GONZALEZ! WE NEED YOUNGER, BRIGHTER, PEOPLE ADVOCATING FOR EL PASO!! I MOVED BACK TO EL PASO BECAUSE OF THE PROGRESSIVE, VISIONARY, YOUNGER, POLITICIANS THAT ARE ALL FOR EL PASO MOVING FORWARD..... GO MOODY AND GONZALEZ!! OUT WITH THE OLD (AND I MEAN ,LITERALLY,DEE MARGO AND NORMA CHAVEZ) IN WITH THE BRIGHT NEW MINDS!!

[YnotEthics]

Yea, Mr. Proud to Be An El Pasoan, I also generally have few problems with young political representation, but it's not only about being young and progressive. Look where Veronica Escobar, Susy Bird, Steve Ortega, and Beto O'Rourke have gotten El Paso since elected. They stand for pursuing the legalization of recreational drugs as an economic engine for the city, the racial sanatization of a revitalized downtown El Paso, and they are ethically bankrupt and could care less about thier role as fiduciaries as elected officials. Throw these classless and ehtically worthless fools out of office and elect candidates who will represent the public with a background of pride, ethics and class. Hopefully, Joe Moody learned something about ethics and fiduciary responsibility from his pop and while in law school, which would give him a great advantage over Dee Margo, who is notorious for having elected officials in El Paso sign confidentiality agreements with the PDNG, directly creating an irreconcilable conflict with the duty elected officials have to be completely transparent and open.

[Anthony Cobos]

get rid of joe moody. norma chavez is gone whose shirt tale would he hang to. bye bye joe moody and clan.