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 [...]

The Dream is Over

CPR: April 2004: Off The Record:
GOP Seeks Minorities; Fails
Every few years, in between high-profile racial embarrassments à la Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond, the GOP makes a big show of reaching out to minorities and working to make their party more of a big-tent multicultural bastion of diversity and tolerance—you know, the Party of Lincoln! [...]