Texas sending its first Latinas to Congress: Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia
By Julian Aguilar, Texas Tribune
EL PASO A pair of veteran Democratic Texas lawmakers made congressional history Tuesday night as the first-ever Latinas elected to represent Texas in the U.S. House.
Former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar and state Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, both defeated their Republican opponents.
Escobar will represent Texas Congressional District 16, the seat currently held by Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso. ORourke gave up the seat in his unsuccessful bid to oust U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Garcia, who has served in the state Senate for six years, will replace Gene Green, D-Houston, as the representative from Congressional District 29.
Its about time, Garcia told her supporters at a victory party in Houston, citing various other elected offices shes been the first Hispanic, first woman or both to hold.
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