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Each incumbents Bexar County commissioners Rebeca Clay-Flores, a Democrat in Precinct 1, and Grant Moody, a Republican in Precinct 3, declared victory quickly after early vote counts have been launched Tuesday.
Clay-Flores secured greater than 58% of the early vote, and Moody simply over 55% for his or her respective bids for reelection.
With all 302 vote facilities reporting, Moody and Clay-Flores maintained their leads.
“At this level, I’m simply gonna say it’s official,” Moody mentioned at an election watch social gathering at Bigz Burger Joint close to UTSA. “We’re proud to be re elected as your Bexar County Commissioner for Precinct 3.”
Moody confronted Democrat Susan Korbel, who has owned a market analysis agency in San Antonio since 1989, within the rising North Facet precinct. Clay-Flores’ Republican challenger was Lina Prado, a senior provide chain supervisor at Boeing.
Moody in Precinct 3
Precinct 3 on the county’s North Facet encompasses a few of Bexar County’s reddest territory and has despatched a protracted line of Republicans to the county’s five-member commissioners courtroom.
Moody, a Marine fighter pilot, gained the seat in a 2022 particular election.
His deeply conservative background helped make him the selection of Republican precinct chairs to run for the seat in 2022, however his resume contains an MBA from the College of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Faculty of Enterprise, in addition to govt roles at USAA and Valero.
Since arriving on the courtroom, Moody and his crew say they’ve been pleasantly shocked by the collaboration with county employees and fellow commissioners to resolve issues and ship cash for initiatives in his precinct.
However his relationships throughout the aisle have additionally helped insulate him from hyperpartisan labels hurting different GOP candidates this cycle, at the same time as he’s lurched in that path with rising frequency.
Kobel waged an unsuccessful marketing campaign towards Moody two years in the past and was prepared to take a seat this yr out, she mentioned, till her husband introduced her with a spreadsheet detailing the precinct’s tightening races as its inhabitants has grown over the previous decade.
In response to Korbel’s numbers, Precinct 3 added roughly 100,000 new registered voters between 2012 and 2022 — an nearly 40% enhance.
The precinct added about 10,000 new voters between 2020 and 2022, and Korbel mentioned there’s been a noticeable distinction in Democratic enthusiasm since she campaigned for the seat simply two years in the past.
At a candidate discussion board hosted by the Oak Park Northwood Neighborhood Affiliation, Korbel pointed to her expertise serving on the Alamo Faculties District Board within the early 2000s as proof she would deliver accountability to a physique that makes many choices outdoors of the general public’s view.
She was a whistleblower in a corruption scandal during which a number of Alamo Faculties trustees have been charged and one went to jail.
Clay-Flores in Precinct 1
Precinct 1 is the solidly blue Southside and Westside precinct on the county’s Commissioners Court docket and is dwelling to the increasing Toyota plant, Joint Base San Antonio, Port San Antonio, Texas A&M College-San Antonio and the Mission Attain of the San Antonio River.
Clay-Flores has a grasp’s diploma in training from Harvard and spent most of her profession instructing earlier than going to work for the town’s Metropolitan Well being District.
She gained her seat 4 years in the past by ousting longtime Democratic incumbent Sergio “Chico” Rodriguez, who held the seat for 4 phrases or 16 years. Neither commissioners nor the Bexar County Choose have time period limits.
Clay-Flores declared victory within the Might runoff for the first election with 63% of the vote and a ready speech during which she accused her opponent Amanda Gonzalez and a neighborhood legislation enforcement union of “instigating racism” and “bullying and harassment.”
Within the wake of the Uvalde faculty taking pictures, Clay-Flores led an effort to direct federal COVID reduction cash towards psychological well being companies for public faculty college students, one thing she mentioned she wished had been out there when she herself was a struggling younger individual. She’s additionally been an outspoken proponent of the county funding performing arts, noting the profit to highschool kids from backgrounds like her personal who wouldn’t in any other case have entry to it.
Prado is president of Ladies in Aviation Alamo Metropolis, a nonprofit that helps girls pursuing careers in aviation. She was born within the Dominican Republic. desires to deal with crime, insufficient infrastructure, and restricted entry to facilities and healthcare in Precinct 1.
Amid tighter county budgets, Prado desires to prioritize public security and road initiatives.
“[P]rojects centered on beautification or non-essential facilities could be placed on maintain,” she wrote in a candidate questionnaire. “We want a method that prioritizes crucial infrastructure based mostly on feasibility, necessity, and the worth it supplies to residents.”
