Ayala: County judge runoff may not be about ‘identity politics,’ but about one candidate’s identity
Bexar County should count its political blessings. At least it isn’t Liberty County, where a drawn-out primary race between two Republicans has gotten nasty.
Meza Gonzalez didn’t make it to the runoff and has since endorsed Sakai, who’s facing Minjarez in a May 24 election.The winner of the runoff will face Republican Trish DeBerry in November to replace longtime Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff. “It is fascinating,” said political science professor Jon Taylor, chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
It produced a young man who overcame his own struggles against discrimination and racism with hard work, ethics and by aligning himself with a group with which he had most in common: Mexican Americans and Chicanos, first in the Rio Grande Valley, then the University of Texas at Austin, then San Antonio.
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