SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales confronted DA candidate Luz Elena Chapa during a meeting of the Northwest Democrats on Saturday morning, videos obtained by KSAT show.<\/p>\n
Gonzales is seen in the video endorsing Chapa\u2019s opponent, saying that the position requires experience.<\/p>\n
According to an online meeting agenda, attendees heard from runoff candidates in various races on the Bexar County Democratic ticket.<\/p>\n
Chapa is running for District Attorney<\/a> against Jane Davis after previously serving as the judge for the Fourth Court of Appeals. Gonzales announced last June he would not seek reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n The winner of the runoff will face Ashley Foster, who secured the Republican nomination, and any independents who recieve enough signatures to make the ballot.<\/p>\n Gonzales said the reason he attended the meeting was to defend his office.<\/p>\n \u201cIt offends me when you attack our people for working hard,\u201d Gonzales said to Chapa, before endorsing Davis.<\/p>\n In another video, a woman attending the fourm then said that the organization gives everyone an opportunity to speak and does not endorse candidates.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the first time that this has happened,” the woman said.<\/p>\n Judge Frank Castro was at the event and sent the following statement to KSAT: <\/p>\n \u201cI saw video of a Democrat candidate forum held today & I was disturbed how District Attorney Joe Gonzalez treated former Justice Luz Elena Chapa, & as a father of two daughters I was even more offended how he treated a woman – I don\u2019t know candidates Ms. Davis or Ms. Chapa well but as a sitting Criminal District Judge I felt I had to speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n Judge Frank Castro <\/p>\n Read also:<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales confronted DA candidate Luz Elena Chapa during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,55576,12942,33696,82,84,83,14165],"class_list":["post-214870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county","tag-jane-davis","tag-joe-gonzales","tag-luz-elena-chapa","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}