At the 2012 Texas Tribune Festival, I interviewed San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ted Cruz about a range of national and state issues, including taxes, health care and immigration.
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TribuneFest: Castro and Cruz on Pre-K and Taxes
At the 2012 Texas Tribune Festival, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ted Cruz talked about the former’s plan to raise sales taxes to fund pre-K.
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Castro Roasts Himself — “El Presidente” — in Comedy Sketch
On the heels of Julián Castro’s Democratic National Convention keynote comes this comedy sketch the San Antonio mayor starred in for the city’s 2012 Gridiron show. Look for cameos from Siri and Eva Longoria.
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Video: Emily Ramshaw From the DNC Sidelines
The Tribune’s Emily Ramshaw talks with Paul Brown of YNN/Capital Tonight after day two of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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Jimmy Fallon Spoofs Look-alike Julián Castro’s DNC Keynote
It didn’t take long for the Twitter-sphere to decide that Julián Castro, the keynote at Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention, had a look-alike other than his identical twin: comedian Jimmy Fallon. Fallon was more than happy to play along.
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Joaquin Castro Charges Up Texas Delegates at DNC
A day and a half after San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro’s rousing keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, his congressional hopeful brother, Joaquin Castro, made an unscheduled appearance before the Texas delegation.
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Video: Castro on “Morning Joe”
This morning, less than 12 hours after his keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk about “the clear choice that this country has” in November.
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In DNC Keynote, Castro Courts Latinos, Youths
San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro on Tuesday night gave a Democratic National Convention keynote that reiterated Barack Obama’s 2008 message of hope, from the promise of recent immigrants to the dreams of Americans reaching for the middle class.
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Video: Latinos Key to Turning Texas Blue, Democratic Chair Says
At the Democratic National Convention, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa says the Latino population is the potential “game-changer” in Democrats’ hopes of switching Texas to their column.
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Texans Reading a Lot Into Castro’s Keynote Address
Texas delegates at the Democratic National Convention want to believe that the selection of San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro for the keynote address is a sign that the national party is beginning to consider Texas a state in play.