With the resignation of Texas Secretary of State Esperanza "Hope" Andrade, will Gov. Rick Perry tap his longtime friend and supporter Cameron County Carlos Cascos to finish out her term in the footsteps of former county judge Tony Garza?
"The phone has been ringing off the hook," said a county receptionist. "Everybody is wondering whether Cascos would do if he was offered the position."
Observers say Cascos, in the middle of his four-year term after getting reelected in 2010, would probably not leave if asked, but the lure of statewide office is hard to underestimate. Given the performance of his elections administrator, it might be something he might not desire.
However, Garza translated his appointment to the SOS to catapult his political career to be chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission and later as the Ambassador to Mexico under George W. Bush. Before he left office he married the heiress of the Corona beer fortune whom he later divorced.
Andrade was the first Hispanic woman to hold the post and announced her resignation effective on Friday. In a letter to Gov. Rick Perry, Andrade said her four and a half years as secretary of state and Texas’ chief elections officer has been “the highest honor of my professional life.” She is the fourth longest serving secretary of state in Texas history.
She was a businesswoman and native of San Antonio and has presided over five statewide elections. Among the gains he mentioned in her letter of resignation she cited her efforts to increase outreach and information resources for voters during her tenure.
Voter registration reached a record high of 13.65 million in October in advance of this year’s general election. But her office came under some criticism earlier this year for seeking to have suspected dead persons removed from voter rolls – an effort that was later halted by a state judge after notices were sent to thousands of “living” voters who were told that their names were about to be removed from the rolls unless they took action.
Many wrote the SOS that – like Mark Twain – notice of their death was premature.
Dallas County election officials opted not to follow the secretary of state’s directive to purge voter rolls
Under her tenure, countless independent candidates had their petitions for different positions rejected for inconsequential discrepancies. Don De Leon, a Brownsville independent candidate sued Andrade even though his lawsuit was later dismissed.
She was appointed secretary of state by Gov. Perry in 2008 after previously serving as the chair of the Texas Transportation Commission. As secretary of state, Andrade also served as senior advisor to the governor for Texas border and Mexican affairs, and as the chief international protocol officer for the state.
10 comments:
Please don't go, please don't go Carlos! They will fill the seat with another crooked Dumbokartic jerk! Sung to the tune of Casey and The Sunshine Band!
Good Riddance to Hope, Roger and Cascos.
Andrade was hopeless. Even Republicans sent in complaints of voter fraud that went ignored. She was a joke and never did shit, not even for her own party. Florida led the way uncovering thousands of illegal immigrants registered to vote in their state, but Andrade hardly dared to touch the potential million illegal Mexican voters on the Texas voter rolls. Not surprised she is gone.
Carlos you can't go, your girlfriends will miss you, and Stilletos In Pharr will also miss you.
reply 5.25pm, que bueno que le gustan las viejas y no los vatos, si te vas alla hay mas puteros que aqui.
King Kascos was seen packing his bags by a close neighbor. Is it for naught, or is it the real thing? Will he leave his wife behind? So many questions, so few answers. I'll bet Monclovio knows, and pass him a fw pesos (or a few bruskies) and he will spill it all.
are we so stupid to think that Cascos would do a better job than Hope when it comes to voter fraud? So far he sees all the corruption around him including blatant voter fraud and he just looks the other way, do we need Ernie Hernandez's best friend in Austin? God forbid!!
I guess he didn"t pack his bags fast enough. John Steen, an attorney from San Antonio was named to replace Hope Andrade as Texas Secretary of State on Tuesday. Yeah, Perry does believe that Texas ends just south of Loop 1604 which is only a few miles south of the city limits of San Antonio. Or maybe he just looked at the election results and realized that no matter how hard he tried and no matter how many fantom votes Cascos had put in the ballot boxes he was unable to deliver the Rio Grande Valley to the republicans this go round.
Oh, Carlitos, you are going to get to stay with us!!!!!
Carlos has been a good County Judge. Not much more than good, but better than we're used to. His undoing will be Ernie Hernandez who may end up in in a cell with Wesly Snipes
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