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El Chuqueño Blog – The Biggest Campaign of the Season

Posted on March 2, 2026

The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot.

The President of the University of Texas at El Paso is fighting to keep her job.

Heather Wilson is squaring off against U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar and her posse.

At issue is a National Science Foundation grant that President Wilson cancelled, apparently because she had the red ass against engineering professor Ahsan Choudhuri.

You can read all the allegations here, and here, and President Wilson’s response here.

I am putting the odds at 5 to 8 that, within the year, President Wilson will resign “to pursue other interests”.

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