Not a smidgen of possible corruption here. Move along...
MCALLEN, Texas —
A developing federal investigation has brought up allegations that a
Hidalgo County Commissioner paid for votes with bags of cocaine while
other politicians paid for votes also with cash, cigarettes, marijuana
and beer.
Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas from the arrest of two
women accused of buying votes show that during the democratic primaries
in 2012, a campaign manager for a Hidalgo County Commissioner who said
that during the campaign, he bought $50 worth of cocaine, commonly known
as an 8-ball and split it up in order to give it to the two women so
they could use it to entice voters.
Earlier this week Belinda Solis and Veronica Salazar went before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally charged them with vote
buying and set their bond at $10,000.
The two women were part of a large year and a half long FBI investigation into election corruption in Hidalgo County.
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