UPDATE: District 1 incumbent Mario Bravo concedes to challenger Sukh Kaur after she takes 60.2% of the early vote in San Antonio's City Council runoff Saturday.
District 1 City Council candidate Sukh Kaur celebrates with supporters at El Honky Tonk after early voting results showed her leading incumbent Mario Bravo in Saturday's runoff. She won with 59.1% of the vote.ended Mario Bravo’s time as District 1’s council member after just one term, grabbing 59.1% of the vote Saturday in a runoff. Bravo took 40.9%.
“They’ve been giving me advice and mentoring me because they knew I was a blank slate,” Kaur said of her supporters in an interview Saturday night. This year Bravo again finished second in the first round of votes, taking 26% to Kaur’s 34%, but was seemingly abandoned by the business community and political establishment in the runoff.
At her watch party Saturday, Kaur was introduced by her father, Pardeep Aneja, who described the way the caste system in India prevents people from rising in social status.Kaur moved to Texas in 2006 to attend Rice University, where she earned degrees in political science and social policy, with dreams of becoming a civil rights lawyer.
“When I was a teacher I thought, ‘Policy doesn’t matter — all I have to do is focus on what’s happening in my classroom, and do a better job as a teacher, and I can change the life of all the kids in my classroom,” Kaur told the Tejano Democrats at a candidate forum in April. “Fifteen years later, you realize policy matters.”
On the City Council, Kaur said she hopes to focus on some of the equity issues that hamper educators’ work, and in turn contribute to the city’s persistent workforce deficiencies. She’s also focused on repairing infrastructure and digging into persistent construction delays that dogged Bravo’s reelection campaign.
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