I am insulted by your comment that the Torres Ray campaign, "clearly outworked the other candidates," not only personally, but for all the other SD62 State Senate campaigns. As Alex Eaton's campaign manager, I am not only proud of the hard work our team put into the campaign, but I am proud of the kind of campaigns all the candidates ran in our Senate District. The campaigns worked together to arrange and put on a new delegate training for more than 50 brand new delegates, we also got together the day before the convention to make sure that any possible rules or credentials challenges were resolved so that our convention could go as quickly and as smoothly as possible. In fact, I am told that our SD62 convention, with 8 State Senate Candidates, adjourned before that of SD61! Now, I haven't been around all that long, but this kind of cooperation between opponents was like nothing I have even seen before.

That said, the Torres Ray campaign ran an outstanding campaign and they have my admiration and respect. In addition, I am pleased that in the end, our district is moving in a more progressive direction with its leadership, and that is what our campaign set out to do last August.