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Is deep-red Texas ready for a gay Latina Democrat? Lupe Valdez thinks so
Source: The Guardian
Is deep-red Texas ready for a gay Latina Democrat? Lupe Valdez thinks so
The Dallas sheriff has launched her run for governor and her potential appeal to women and Latinos plus her record on law and order could challenge the GOP
Tom Dart in Dallas
Fri 12 Jan ‘18 11.00 GMT
It would rank as one of the greatest political upsets of 2018 and a stunning rebuke to Trumpism: a gay Latina Democrat grabbing hold of the country’s biggest red state.
But is Texas ready for Lupe Valdez?
The question was first posed in Dallas in 2004, when Valdez scored a surprise victory to become the nation’s first openly gay female Hispanic sheriff on the same night that George W Bush secured a second term in the White House. She won re-election three times in Dallas county before announcing last month that she would resign to stand for Texas governor.
Born in San Antonio, the youngest of eight children of Mexican American migrant farm workers, Valdez, 70, was a captain in the US army reserve, a prison guard and a senior agent in the Department of Homeland Security, working drug and undercover investigations.
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The Dallas sheriff has launched her run for governor and her potential appeal to women and Latinos plus her record on law and order could challenge the GOP
Tom Dart in Dallas
Fri 12 Jan ‘18 11.00 GMT
It would rank as one of the greatest political upsets of 2018 and a stunning rebuke to Trumpism: a gay Latina Democrat grabbing hold of the country’s biggest red state.
But is Texas ready for Lupe Valdez?
The question was first posed in Dallas in 2004, when Valdez scored a surprise victory to become the nation’s first openly gay female Hispanic sheriff on the same night that George W Bush secured a second term in the White House. She won re-election three times in Dallas county before announcing last month that she would resign to stand for Texas governor.
Born in San Antonio, the youngest of eight children of Mexican American migrant farm workers, Valdez, 70, was a captain in the US army reserve, a prison guard and a senior agent in the Department of Homeland Security, working drug and undercover investigations.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/texas-lupe-valdez-gay-latina-democrat-governor
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