Kristian Carranza, a progressive political organizer, will go up against Republican John Lujan in November's Texas House District 118 race.
It's our privilege to produce journalism that fosters democracy this election year, but we can't do it alone. Will you contribute today to helpWith 239 of 267 vote centers reporting, Carranza had 63% of the vote and claimed victory. Quezada had 37%.
“John Lujan has forgotten about HD 118 in Austin,” she said in a prepared statement Tuesday night. “Facing a choice between funding public schools or stripping their funding through private school vouchers, he voted for vouchers. When tens of thousands of families lost their health care due to bureaucratic mistakes, he reacted with silence.
Carranza’s state House campaign has the backing of the Texas Organizing Project, Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood Votes, the Latino Victory Fund and several labor unions, as well as civil rights leader Rosie Castro and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro.“It’s really important for me to demonstrate that we’re able to fundraise and put together a team,” Carranza said in a January interview.
In the final stretch of the campaign, he attacked her for only recently moving to the district. Carranza grew up on the South Side, but had been living downtown until fall 2023. Fuentes, who co-chairs the San Antonio AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, said at a Communications of America rally Saturday that he was running because of the anti-worker legislation coming out of the legislature.
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