CD-23 Candidates May Not Hold Debate in English
The English-speaking voters of Congressional District 23 might not get a chance to see — or at least understand — a debate of the two major candidates before Election Day.
U.S. Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco, R-San Antonio, and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Pete Gallego of Alpine, debated once in Spanish a month ago. Since then they haven’t appeared on stage together, and time is running out ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
Canseco’s campaign is blaming Gallego, pointing to his cancellation of a debate Thursday in Del Rio and listing a string of candidate "forums" that the congressman ...
Comments (2)
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another reason why English should be the official language. This bi lingual crap is very divisive ..
Michael Hull
Divisive to whom? The story makes no mention of division in CD-23 created by the candidates' Spanish-speaking debate. Their differences don't stem from the earlier debate format...so why care?