Nothing in violation of United States law.No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.Then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. To post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users.īecoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, Tabanus: 2nd today in a tournament in Barcelona, Spain, 17-: He won today the XXIVè Obert del Catalunya Escacs Club: Tabanus: Still not merged with F Cruz I see. I noticed that Cruz's other son Jonathan is now in Spain as well. tournament Vila de Sitges, ahead of GM Lars Karlsson:Ĭaissanist: Tabanus - many thanks for the link. The father has improved considerably, and the son tremendously, since moving to Spain. His young son Cristhian then qualified for the Peruvian Olympic team in 2006, and stayed in Spain with his father after playing in the Olympiad in Italy. REFINE SEARCH: White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Cruz wins | Cruz losesĬaissanist: Longtime Peruvian FM who decided to remain in Spain after playing in the 2004 Olympiad there. He is the father of GM Cristhian Cruz Sanchez and IM Jonathan Cruz. “Prior to me running, no one cared about our district or who we were or what we had to say,” she said.Filemon Cruz is an International Master, and was champion of Peru in 2000. She criticized Vela’s time in Congress as ineffective for his constituents and characterized the Democratic Party as feeling entitled to the South Texas vote while putting forth very little effort. "I look forward to working with Mayra in Washington."įlores told CQ Roll Call that her candidacy served as a challenge to the Democratic establishment. "This election was a referendum on Democrats’ reckless policies that created a border crisis, led to record-high inflation, and sent gas prices soaring," Emmer said. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer, R-Minn., issued a statement congratulating Flores on her "history making" victory. Gonzalez is currently the 15th District incumbent, but he decided to run in the open 34th after the GOP-controlled legislature redrew his district to be much more competitive. Vicente Gonzalez in the election for a full term. In November, Flores will face Democratic Rep. But the seat in the next Congress will be more Democratic through redistricting, going from one President Joe Biden won by 4 points in 2020 to one Biden would have won by 16 points. Republican groups spent more heavily on the race than Democrats, and Flores raised $1.1 million through May 25, to Sanchez’s $146,000. Greg Abbott’s decision to call a special election rather than leaving it vacant until November was a sign Republicans thought they could capture it and show momentum heading into the midterms. Vela had been in the seat since 2013 and left in March to work as a lobbyist for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. She remembers them putting in hours at a peanut factory and in cotton fields. Central with an estimated 99 percent of the vote counted.īorn in Burgos, a city in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Flores came to the United States around the age of 6 with her parents. She had 51 percent to Sanchez’s 43 percent when The Associated Press called the race at 10:13 p.m. Filemon Vela’s term, which runs through January. The daughter of migrant workers, Republican Mayra Flores flipped a Democratic seat Tuesday in winning a special election in Texas’ 34th District, though the seat may flip back in November.įlores defeated Democrat Dan Sanchez and two other candidates in the special election to fill the remainder of Democratic Rep.
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