Gabby Announces CD 8 Bid Lauch

Gabby has finally announced her official campaign launch. As widely expected, the guest of honor at that event will be Congressman Raul Grijalva. With Gabby’s money (she just announced clearing her first 250K – I doubt if any of her rivals for the nomination can boast even half of that), her DLC and Party connections, and now with Grijalva apparently in her camp, Gabby is presenting a fairly convincing image of inevitability.

She recently sent out invitations to her launch party:

I would like to invite you to join Congressman Raúl Gríjalva and other supporters at our official campaign kickoff, which will begin at 10 a.m. on Jan. 24 at the Arizona Inn, 2200 East Elm Street. This will be followed by a 12:30 p.m. event in Green Valley at the American Legion Post, 1560 W Duval Mine Road in Sahuarita and some other stops around our district over subsequent days.

The campaign headquarters at 5704 E. Broadway in Tucson will be open by Feb. 1. Please stop by anytime to share your thoughts on issues. And of course I’d love to have you roll up your sleeves and add your talents to our effort. (emphasis added)

I could throw out a few well-worn platitudes at this point – there’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip, don’t count your chickens before they hatch, ad nauseum – but the brutal fact is that unless Gabby’s competitors start making a much bigger noises, Gabby will be the nominee walking away. I hope the candidate forums will generate some noise, but I doubt it – they never do. The other candidates need to choose some issues, which Gabby can’t co-opt, that are highly media-genic and start beating that drum like a red-headed step-child, or they are going to get burried under Gabby’s avalanche of CW and march of endorsements.