Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Residents urge delay after write-in candidate’s removal; court appoints interim justice of the peace for Precinct 4
Summary
Speakers including Dr. Veronica Brooks and community organizers asked Bexar County Commissioners Court to remove item 47 and allow voters to decide after Brooks says she was wrongly removed from the primary ballot; the court approved the interim appointment with one abstention.
Bexar County Commissioners Court on April 14 appointed an interim justice of the peace for Precinct 4 despite public pleas to delay the action so voters could decide the contested race.
Dr. Veronica Brooks, who identified herself as a write-in candidate for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4, Place 1, told the court she was removed from the primary ballot after the Bexar County Democratic Party allegedly submitted incorrect names and birth dates and excluded about 130 of her voters, many of them military. “They accidentally typed in wrong names, wrong birth…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
