In the race to become the next mayor of San Antonio, the double candidate of the Democrat Congress Gina Ortiz Jones led Rolando PablosA close ally of the leaders of the Texas GOP, 53.66% to 46.34% with 92 of the 182 voting centers counted.
However Jones took a commanderAdvance of 10 percentage points in last month 27 candidates mayor’s election, it altered nearly a million dollars In the attacks of Pablos and its republican allies.
At the Dakota East Side Ice House, a radiant Jones briefly sent the supporters after the publication of the first results.
“We are so proud of the vision that we have presented, a vision not only to do things, but to treat people with dignity and with respect and with compassion,” said Jones.
She said she was also delighted that San Antonio’s policy could offer positive news in an otherwise tumultuous news cycle.
“With everything that happens around us at the federal level and at the state level, some of the most non-American things that we have seen for a very, a very long time, it is very encouraging to see where we are at the moment,” she said. “I think that will continue – God will, the results will hold us.”
Jones and Pablos Organized a host of candidates With more experience of the local government, including four members of the practice, and sent local politicians rush into their partisan camps For a non -partisan breed.
Between candidates and their external support groups, runoff had already been drawn About 1.7 million dollars In expense at May 28 – the last date covered by campaign financing reports before the elections.
A large part of this came from national and national CAPs, and about three-quarters of it were devoted to helping Pablos, which was supported by a group with links with governor Greg Abbott called Texas Economic Fund.
Conservatives are currently controlling fair A headquarters at the San Antonio Municipal Counciland on the county level, the Republican elected officials were on the extinction rod.
But the massively leadership of the city of the city could participate in a major reshuffle on Saturday evening, Like four municipal council races are also decided in the streams. Three of them, in Districts 1,, 8 and 9Characteristic of heated matches on the left to the left to replace the holders from the left to the left. For the first time, the winners of this year Serve four -year -old mandates Before requesting a re -election.
