Unlike the City of Edinburg, Alamo’s runoff election that ends this Saturday, Dec. 7th , presumably won’t form a new commission majority since the mayor and her two commission political allies, Robert De La Garza and Oscar “Okie” Salinas, are already seated in three of the five commission seats.
The lone seat still open, Place 4, will be decided in the runoff. Pitted against each other: incumbent city commissioner and Mayor Martinez ally, Maria Del Pilar Garza, and political newcomer Michael Benedetti, who enjoys the support of former Place 1 city commissioner “Trino” Medina who lost to Martinez in the bitterly ...