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- Mr. Castro has focused his campaign largely on immigration, drawing on his family’s background (his grandmother was an immigrant from Mexico) and his political experience in a border state. His immigration plan was one of the earliest and most detailed in the Democratic field.
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Jan 12, 2019 · As mayor of San Antonio, Castro convinced voters to raise taxes one-eighth of a cent to create the city’s pre-kindergarten program for four-year-olds.
- Lisa Desjardins
Aug 18, 2019 · The night before Julián Castro delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention for President Barack Obama’s re-election, he had eaten by himself at the T.G.I. Friday’s...
- Amy Chozick
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During his second term as mayor, Castro delivered the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Castro served as mayor until 2014, when President Barack Obama (D) named him U.S. secretary of housing and urban development. The Senate confirmed his nomination by a vote of 71-26.
Jan 2, 2020 · One of Mr. Castro’s biggest accomplishments as mayor of San Antonio, an office he held from 2009 to 2014, was a program called Pre-K 4 SA. Funded by a tax increase that San Antonio voters ...
Jun 19, 2019 · Julián Castro was born and raised in San Antonio, where he became a city councilman and eventually the mayor. Castro is the only Latino running for president.
Jan 2, 2020 · Julián Castro, former housing and urban development secretary under President Barack Obama and former San Antonio, Texas, mayor, entered the 2020 presidential race in January 2019. He is the first Mexican-American to seek the presidency.
Castro ran for mayor of San Antonio in 2005 and was widely viewed as the front runner in a field that also included retired judge Phil Hardberger and conservative city councilman Carroll Schubert. He was defeated by approximately 4000 votes when Hardberger received 51.5% of the votes in the runoff.
