Both Bexar County DA candidates are complaining to local TV stations and social media platforms about attack ads targeting them.
in which LaHood defended a client facing charges for possession of methamphetamine, heroin and other drugs.
“[LaHood] has said that we don’t prosecute property crimes. We’ve prosecuted over 10,000 property crimes since I’ve been in office,” Gonzales said in an interview. “He also said that we don’t prosecute drug offenses and that’s not true,” said Gonzales. “We have prosecuted over 8,000 drug offenses, and the reason that he knows that is because he’s been the lawyer on some of those cases.”saying Gonzales’ former cite-and-release policy and his office’s midterm report outline plans to “decline to prosecute possession” of Penalty Group 1 controlled substances in amounts less than .25 grams.
Ads run by outside groups are more easily challenged because the stations can be held liable for their claims.saying LaHood “celebrated taking away a women’s right to choose” whether to have an abortion. LaHood’s campaign is challenging the ad and asked for it to be removed from Facebook, saying the Gonzales campaign has no proof of the allegation.He added that he has “never used this position or this campaign for my personal beliefs or my personal agenda.
Gonzales’ work fighting violent crime, reducing prosecutions for small amounts of marijuana and his plans not to prosecute women seeking an abortion.
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