Bonilla has a lot to thank Tom DeLay for

MySA.com: Bonilla has benefited greatly from his loyalty to Tom DeLay
Bonilla also became a trusted and loyal soldier for DeLay, and in 1999 was made head of American Dream PAC, whose mission, he said, was “to give significant, direct financial assistance to first-rate minority GOP candidates.”
Yes, that is the American Dream PAC that Techdigger wrote [...]

Why vote for Rodriguez?

Because if more than 126 House Representatives stood up to Bush and voted against giving the President the authority to invade Iraq, we might have found a different solution for Saddam Hussein. The Taliban might not be regaining control of southern Afghanistan because we would have had all of our troops committed there. And Osama [...]