An uncontested reality has creeped into El Paso’s local non-partisan elections, and it has the local Democrats struggling to contain inconvenient truths. El Paso’s city council races, including the mayor’s race, are supposed to be non-partisan, meaning that candidates running for those offices do not have a party affiliation next to their names. However, that has not stopped the El Paso County Democratic Party from labeling some candidates as a “Democrat-in-name-only,” the so-called DINOs.