Julian Castro : "I have a real competitive streak, in making San Antonio become the best city in the whole country." It’s a message to the crowd gathered at his send-off, and it’s growing up in San Antonio that he plans on talking about in his keynote address. "My real interest is San Antonio."

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The New Republic : Julian Castro, Mayor of San Antonio, and Keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention. He is humble, unassuming, modest, unpretentious, not arrogant. That humility may be what the Doctor ordered for the ailing Texas Democratic Party.

The New Republic
Can Julian Castro Make It In Texas?
By Boer Deng
September 4, 2012


Can Julian Castro Make It In Texas?

Excerpt :

Skeptics might dismiss such rhetoric as an attempt to shirk responsibility for the troubled condition of his party elsewhere in the state (in the last gubernatorial election, Democrats carried just 28 of the 254 counties in Texas). But his pragmatic localism may well be a strategy to turn the tide for Democrats throughout Texas. In city government, you deal with the daily “front door issues” people are facing, Diego Bernal, the city councilman from District 1 told me. “It isn’t glamorous stuff,” but it’s Castro’s talent at engaging on this level that people appreciate about his politics.

“My brother enjoys these bigger issues, these overall issues on education, on health care, on transportation,” Castro says of his twin brother, Joaquin, who is running for Congress. Castro’s focus is on “making the right investments” in the community: That’s the kind of thing people care about locally. If they do turn out to be right, that record could eventually help Castro turn the tide for Democrats throughout Texas.

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