The Northside district had fallen off Democrats' target list until Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's voucher push made it an overnight battleground.
Ousted State Rep. Steve Allison speaks at a town hall on education along with the Democratic candidate for his seat Laurel Jordan Swift and State Reps. Gina Hinojosa, James Talarico and Diego Bernal on Wednesday evening.Texas Democrats had largely abandoned their long-held dream of flipping House District 121 — until Gov. Greg Abbott’s school voucher campaign thrust it back into the spotlight this year.
In an interview after the event, Allison, a former Alamo Heights ISD board president who has represented the district since 2018, said he believes Swift now has a real chance at a seat that’s long eluded Democrats. Against that backdrop, Democrats didn’t even have a candidate this election cycle until local political operative Ana Ramon, who helped out on Montoya’s campaigns, met Swift at a social event and recruited her for a race no seasoned candidate would sign up for. Despite having identified as a Republican until 2016, Swift defeated one other
State Reps. James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa, Diego Bernal and Steve Allison listen to Laurel Jordan Swift during a town hall on Wednesday. Swift is leaning hard on the idea that Republicans might be feeling alienated by the party’s rightward shift — with vouchers being the final straw.includes the type of highly educated suburban voters who have been trending toward Democrats in other parts of the state, and yet stayed loyal to this area’s more moderate Republicans like Allison and his predecessor, former Texas Speaker Joe Straus.
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