Editor,
It seems that the Daily Lobo is behind the times in its reporting of Mario Sanchez's bid for mayor of Belen. It was reported in a Belen paper last week that Mr. Sanchez was removed from the race for not having a Belen residence at the time of his application for candidacy.
I understand that it's a new semester, and that the Lobo probably acquired this story over the break, but don't you have the journalistic responsibility of timeliness and factuality?
If you want a good story about Mr. Sanchez's bid for mayor, you should find out why the current mayor of Belen, previously a hairdresser, and his cabinet bent over backwards to keep Mario from running.
Who do you think went to the trouble to have him removed? It seems that Mario's ideas were a little too good for the status quo.
John D. Bess
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Sophomore English major
Editor's Note: Sanchez informed the Daily Lobo after the article about his candidacy was published that he withdrew from the Belen mayoral election because of a filing violation. The newspaper regrets any inconvenience as a result of the article.
