Molly Smith

5 days ago | expressnews.com | Molly Smith |Leila Darwiche

Gina Ortiz Jones won more than one in every four votes cast in the May 3 city election by pulling support on San Antonio's East, West and South sides - which counts as a feat in a race with 26 other mayoral candidates clamoring for attention. She carried the majority of voting precincts, including a few on the more conservative North Side. The former Air Force undersecretary and two-time Democratic candidate for Congress is facing Rolando Pablos in the June 7 runoff election for mayor.

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Molly Smith

San Antonio voters on Saturday said they wanted a City Hall outsider to be the next mayor, changing course after two decades of sending City Council members to the city's top seat. None of the four City Council members running for mayor got close to making the June 7 runoff election. Article continues below this adGina Ortiz Jones and Rolando Pablos - who have long track records in Democratic and Republican politics, respectively - will compete in the runoff to replace Mayor Ron Nirenberg.

1 week ago | expressnews.com | JJ Velasquez |Leila Darwiche |Molly Smith |Megan Rodriguez

San Antonio will elect a new mayor for the first time in eight years tonight. All 10 city council seats are also on the ballot as voters head to the polls, which will close at 7 p.m. Follow along as we provide up-to-the-minute news on the May 3 local election. Elsewhere, Boerne voters are deciding whether to reelect an incumbent mayor, college and school districts have floated bond measure and trustees are vying for board seats.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Molly Smith

A handful of mayoral candidates are benefiting from the support of political action committees and a nonprofit, some of whose donors are hidden behind limited liability companies or are anonymous. PACs can directly contribute to a candidate's campaign or - as many are choosing in the May 3 mayor's race - can spend as much as they want to indirectly support a candidate. The legal catch is that they can't coordinate their spending with the candidate's campaign.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Molly Smith |Leila Darwiche

Hours before the start of early voting on Tuesday, the Bexar County Democratic Party unleashed a 30-second video attacking mayoral candidate Rolando Pablos ' connection to Gov. Greg Abbott. "Greg Abbott and his friends are putting $2 million into his campaign," the video says. "Makes you wonder who would Pablos be working for if elected, Greg Abbott or Abbott's rich friends?"Pablos blasted the ad as an attempt to insert partisan politics into a race for a nonpartisan office.