San Antonio City Council District 7
City Councilwoman Elena Guajardo and challenger Justin Rodriguez are waging door-to-door combat across District 7 in one of this year’s most competitive city races.Unlike other candidates looking to unseat council incumbents May 12, Rodriguez isn’t running a cash-poor campaign and, as a board member of the San Antonio Independent School District, he’s already got constituents in part of the district.
Yes, Elena Guajardo is the councilwoman whose complaint to Zachary Construction set the wheels in motion that caused George Dickerson to lose his job and ultimately his life. You can read the full story here. She doesn’t have a campaign website that I can find but a quick google search will find a wealth of information about her. Sadly, I am not finding a website for Justin Rodriguez either but I can find a list of people endorsing him. I don’t put much stock in endorsements so I won’t reprint them here. They both look to be out blockwalking so hopefully you will get to sit and chat with them both.
Update:
You can locate Elena’s website here:
And Justin’s can be found here:
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Filed under: 2007 San Antoinio Election, District 7
You can locate Elena’s website here:
http://www.voteelena.com
And Justin’s can be found here:
http://www.justinrodriguez.org
As of the arrival of a Justin card in today’s mail, it looks like the race has begun to go negative (but in a tasteful way).
P.S. Thanks for the blog–I just encountered it and have quite enjoyed what I’ve read so far.
Thanks so much, Mike. I updated the post to include the links. I have to ask. How do you go negative in a tasteful way?
Justin’s negative mailer is “tasteful” (I should’ve supplied the quotation marks because you’re right, tasteful negativitiy is an oxymoron) because it’s issues-based, not an ad hominem attack or an outright lie. But the mailer does list two 1/2-truths (about the bond and about aquifer development) and one item (about a tax abatement for Microsoft) with inappropriate context.