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Beto Altamirano is finest recognized for creating the Metropolis of San Antonio’s first digital service request platform.
Although San Antonio’s subsequent mayoral election is sort of a 12 months away, tech entrepreneur Beto Altamirano on Friday turned the third high-profile contender to announce a run for the job.
The 34-year-old unveiled his candidacy in press launch despatched out by marketing campaign supervisor Andrew Solano, a Metropolis Corridor insider who’s labored for no less than two council members. The announcement comes a day sooner than anticipated.
Roughly every week in the past, Altamirano scheduled an occasion at Southtown’s Pleasant Spot for this Saturday to make a “particular announcement.” Observers learn the ten:30 a.m. gathering because the official launch of his marketing campaign.
A two-and-a-half-minute video clip accompanied Altamirano’s Friday launch. In it, he talked up his enterprise background whereas zeroing in on points together with schooling and job creation.
“It is not about one in every of us. It is about all of us, and collectively we will construct the way forward for this nice metropolis,” stated Altamirano, who’s finest recognized for creating the Metropolis of San Antonio’s first digital service request platform. “A future the place each youngster has entry to the care and schooling they want. A future the place good-paying jobs are shut inside attain. A future the place each household feels secure and supported.”
Marketing campaign supervisor Solano served as a staffer for each District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur and former District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval.
Altamirano additionally tapped Mike Beldon of Beldon Roofing fame to be his marketing campaign treasurer. Beldon is an attention-grabbing selection since he additionally served the identical function within the mayoral marketing campaign of Phil Hardberger, the final particular person to be elected to the place from outdoors Metropolis Corridor. Harberger was first elected in 2005.
Beldon informed the Categorical-Information the deep-pocketed Altamirano is prepared to mortgage his personal marketing campaign $100,000 or extra if obligatory.
Altamirano has joined District 10 Councilman John Braveness and District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez in formally launching campaigns. District 6 Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda is predicted to announce quickly, whereas District 4’s Adriana Rocha Garcia continues to be reportedly mulling a run.
Altamirano nonetheless plans to carry his Saturday occasion to debate his imaginative and prescient for San Antonio in additional element. Tickets can be found by way of Eventbrite.
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