Election results: San Antonio City Council will have its first openly gay member; two incumbents ousted
Joshua Fechter, Liz Hardaway, Guillermo Contreras, Scott Huddleston, Bruce Selcraig, Staff writers
June 5, 2021
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San Antonio’s City Council will soon look a lot different.
Four newcomers will sit on the council after Saturday’s runoffs for five council seats nearly half of the city’s chief governing body. The council will have its first openly gay member, while two incumbents were ousted in an upset.
District 1
In the fight to represent the city’s urban core, challenger Mario Bravo ousted District 1 Councilman Roberto Treviño and denied the third-term councilman a fourth and final term.
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San Antonio District 1 City Council member Roberto C. Treviño, speaks Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, at the San Fernando gym parking lot during the unveiling of the city’s first mobile shower trailer. The unit, which has three shower stalls including an ADA-compliant stall, with be used by the city s Department of Human Services to help the homeless and others in crisis.William Luther /San Antonio Express-News
On Nov. 4, 2008, the voters of the United States made history by electing Barack Obama, this country’s first African American president.
In San Antonio, we made some history of our own.