Mayor
Dietrick Tillis: To me, the top priority is fixing the potholes in our city. As I have been on the campaign trail and visited several different communities, the one consistent issue that everyone agrees (on) is the condition of the roads in San Angelo. The infrastructure in the city is literally crumbling. I want to create a safe streets initiative to address the potholes in the city.
Brenda Gunter: The city s main function is to provide for the infrastructure and the public safety of the citizens of San Angelo. We must continue to invest back into the infrastructure of the city, and that means into the reconstruction, repair and maintenance of our city s streets. It also means the city must continue to repair and replace old water and sewer lines. Not only is it a primary function of the city, but it is also remains a great need due to many years of the city not having a plan in place to re-invest in the repair and maintenance of all city streets, water and sewer l
SAN ANGELO Early voting in San Angelo begins Monday, April 19, 2021. Here s everything you need to know about where, when and how to cast your ballot before the election less than two weeks away.
On May 1, San Angelo will choose between three mayoral candidates. Incumbent Brenda Gunter, the city s first elected female mayor, will face two challengers: Silvara Lawson and Dietrick Tillis.
A win for Lawson would make her the second female mayor to hold that office. If Tillis is the victor, he would be the first Black mayor elected in San Angelo s history. Tillis is the first Black mayoral candidate, according to a spokesperson with San Angelo s local chapter of the NAACP.
A recap of legislative redistricting efforts in Oregon April 15 2021
More often than not, secretary of state has stepped in when lawmakers have failed in past 50 years.
When the 2011 Legislature completed a legislative redistricting plan and no one challenged it in the Oregon Supreme Court it was the first time in a century that lawmakers completed that task successfully.
Modern redistricting goes back half a century, after U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s required states to draw congressional and legislative districts that are equal in population. For state legislative districts, the legal standard is substantial equality, which is less strict than what courts require for congressional districts. (Under the current plan, Senate and House districts vary no more than 3 percentage points from the average.)
SAN ANGELO The Standard-Times sent a questionnaire to all candidates running for San Angelo City Council. The positions for Mayor and Single Member Districts 2, 4 and 6 are up for election. Voters will decide who will represent them on May 1, 2021.
The 10 candidates in this year s election represent a diverse mix from San Angelo s community, with six women and four men seeking office. Some have been involved in city politics for years. Others, like 19-year-old Cie Rangel, are political newcomers.
On May 1, San Angelo will choose between three mayoral candidates. Incumbent Brenda Gunter, the city s first elected female mayor, will face two challengers: Silvara Lawson and Dietrick Tillis.
The Atlantic
In the contemporary American political system, the parties are always changing but they don’t simply disappear.
March 10, 2021
Paul Spella / The Atlantic
After the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans defied history and added to their House majority, excited GOP figures began speaking of a “permanent majority,” or at least one that would last a generation. George W. Bush’s reelection victory two years later affirmed that Democrats were in disarray: The era of big government was over, Bill Clinton had left a vacuum behind, and Republicans were ascendant. The 2006 elections could cement the GOP’s hold, the pundit Hugh Hewitt wrote in a book, dubbing the midterms “the fight to create a permanent Republican majority.”