Bexar County judge candidate Trish DeBerry says she will defend herself against recent attacks with 'a significant buy' of TV ads.
Bexar County Judge candidate Trish DeBerry speaks during the Keep Bexar Safe forum hosted by the Deputy Sheriff’s Association of Bexar County at McAllister Auditorium Monday.Trish DeBerry’s alarm was going off. Home late after a campaign event the previous night, she had planned to get up early and work out.
Her bid to replace retiring Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who has held the seat since 2001, comes as Republicans’ hopes for big wins in the 2022 midterm election have faded in recent months. And she’s battling in a county so blue it favored 2020 Democratic U.S. Senate challenger MJ Hegar, a nine-point loser statewide, by 12 percentage points and Joe Biden by 18-plus points over Donald Trump.
As the race comes down to the final weeks, DeBerry has held her own against Sakai when it comes to fundraising. Campaign finance reports covering July 1 through Sept. 29 indicate she raised $241,000 to Sakai’s $284,000. DeBerry heads into the final stretch with $169,000 on hand, including a $50,000 personal loan she made to the campaign on Sept. 28. SakaiAnd she plans to defend herself against the attacks with “a significant buy” of TV advertising beginning next week, she said Friday.
primary caregiver for her children while running her own PR firm, politics got put on the back burner.DeBerry didn’t reenter the political arena until 2020, when she joined the race to replace Republican Kevin Wolff on Bexar County Commissioners Court. She faced a field of eight candidates in the GOP primary, vying for the traditionally Republican Precinct 3 seat.
DeBerry easily defeated family lawyer Christine Hortick in the general election and quickly became an outspoken member of the Commissioners Court. “The attacks are baseless, at this point, and unwarranted because I fully divested myself from the company and sold it to [new owner Anamaria Suescun-Fast] in July,” DeBerry said of the firm formerly known as the The DeBerry group, now called TalkStrategy.
But gubernatorial election years have historically offered Republicans their best prospects in Bexar County, and DeBerry was eager to capitalize on what she saw as a potentially good environment in the 2022 midterm election. President Joe Biden’s approval was lower, gas prices were higher, and the Supreme Court had not yet overturned Roe v. Wade.
Throughout many debates and candidate forums, DeBerry has used her time to tout ideas for moving the county jail to promote development on the West Side, addressing the reliance on overtime to staff the jail and merging the city and county’s health systems. “These aren’t real issues where you can be for or against it,” Krier said of the dark-money ads that ran against DeBerry. “She’s ambitious? I mean, give me a break. She would crawl over hot coals? That is mean and without foundation, and made to draw attention and to create impressions on which there are no facts to base.”
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