MySA.com: Politics
Voters in Districts 5 and 8 go to the polls today to fill the last two slots on the San Antonio City Council.
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* Where to vote
Go vote!!! The express voting locations isn’t terribly easy to decipher. Click here and put in your address and it will tell you where your polling location is.
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Posted in 2007 San Antoinio Election, San Antonio, run-off, run-off election, run-off elections, runoff, runoff election, texas 4 Comments »

I know I should just get over it but I thought the following was such a concise indictment against the San Antonio Express-News endorsement of Bonilla in the run-off election.
TIME.com: How the G.O.P. Got Blindsided in Texas — Page 1
In a region where “government is the economy,” Hernandez said, Bonilla had been able to parlay [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, San Antonio, San Antonio Express News, Texas District 23, run-off, runoff, texas, texas politics No Comments »

Until Bonilla became desperate last monday I wasn’t thinking there was a snowballs chance in hell that Ciro would pull this out. I was hoping he would but I have gotten very used to being disappointed in Texas politics. I try to understand why people in San Antonio and Texas, good hard-working people who are [...]

Posted in Ciro Rodriguez, Congress, Congressional District 23, District 23, GOP, Henry Bonilla, Phil Ricks, San Antonio, Texas District 23, attack ads, bexar county, campaign, candidates, dirty politics, dishonesty, double-speak, election, politics, redistricting, run-off, runoff, sheople, texas, texas politics No Comments »

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San Antonio Express-News Convoluted Conventional Wisdom-0

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, San Antonio, San Antonio Express News, Uncategorized, run-off, runoff 1 Comment »

All the important voter links for today.
Bexar County Elections
If you are in Bexar County you can find your precinct information and they will even show you a sample ballot. Don’t waste your time on the sample ballot, it is just Ciro Rodriguez DEM and Henry Bonilla REP
Online Voter Central
Click on either polling place or ballot [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, Texas District 23, Uvalde County, Zavala County, bexar county, election, medina county, politics, run-off, runoff, texas, texas politics, voting precinct No Comments »

If anyone is interested in looking beyond the attack ads, the San Antonio Express-News has a nice story on the differences between Bonilla and Rodriguez.
MySA.com: Politics
Politically, here’s as much as Republican Henry Bonilla and Democrat Ciro Rodriguez have in common: They served together in U.S. House of Representatives for eight years.
What they actually did on [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Henry Bonilla, San Antonio Express News, Texas District 23, run-off, runoff, texas 1 Comment »

ySA.com: Politics
He also faulted Rodríguez for taking $250 from Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was later convicted of conducting illegal business transactions with Libya. Left unsaid was that Alamoudi’s check came years before he was investigated and that Rodríguez was one of nine congressmen he sent money to, a list that also included Lee Hamilton, later named [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Enron, Henry Bonilla, Jack Abramoff, Phil Ricks, Runoff Election - December 12, Texas District 23, campaign, campaign contributions, dirty politics, dishonesty, election, political stunt, politics, run-off, runoff, texas politics, vote 2 Comments »

Finally, some of the San Antonio media besides the Express-News are starting to pay attention to the campaign. WOAI’s trouble shooters checked out Rodriguez’s ads and found them to be true. Unfortunately, they’re true for both Bonilla and Rodriguez. They’ll be looking at Bonilla’s ads next.
The San Antonio Current has a much longer article worth [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, District 23, Henry Bonilla, Mad cow disease, Runoff Election - December 12, San Antonio, Texas District 23, attack ads, run-off, runoff, texas, texas politics No Comments »

Did you know that Henry Bonilla is the underdog in the upcoming election? No, really! I got a campaign flyer in the mail today that says the following:
Being the “underdog” is a role I’ve embraced throughout my life…When I first ran for Congress, experts said I had no chance to win…Once again, we’re the “underdog” [...]

Posted in Bonilla, Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, Texas District 23, attack ads, campaign, election, mudslinging, political stunt, politics, republican, run-off, runoff, texas, texas politics 1 Comment »

MySA.com: Metro | State
Early voting extended to Saturday
Bexar County has an extra day of early voting thanks to a compromise reached Tuesday between state officials and a Hispanic civil rights group that had been challenging the election date set for the runoff in Congressional District 23.Following the agreement, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez in San [...]

Posted in Ciro Rodriguez, Congressional District 23, District 23, Elections Administrator, Henry Bonilla, Runoff Election - December 12, early voting, election, run-off, runoff, vote No Comments »