Texas Democratic Senate candidate and Texas state Rep. James Talarico will make a campaign stop in Webb County Tuesday as part of his Frontera Tour, his campaign announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Talarico is scheduled to begin his visit Tuesday with a 1 p.m. press conference focused on tariffs at the port of entry. He will then attend a World Cup watch party at 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
The visit will conclude with a community rally at 6 p.m. in the San Agustin Ballroom at La Posada, 1000 Zaragoza St., Suite 107.<\/p>\n
According to the campaign, the Frontera Tour is focused on communities along the Texas border that it says have been overlooked by both major political parties. Stops include El Paso, Marfa, Alpine, Sanderson, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo, McAllen and Edinburg.<\/p>\n
The campaign said Talarico plans to discuss issues including water infrastructure, border security, health care affordability and the cost of living.<\/p>\n
\u201cBorder communities are the gateway to our state\u2019s economy \u2014 but for too long, politicians have taken them for granted. From El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley, Texans are drowning under the high cost of everything \u2014 while the establishment in both political parties doesn\u2019t seem to notice,\u201d Talarico said. \u201cKen Paxton hasn\u2019t been to a single border community this entire campaign, probably because there aren\u2019t enough billionaire mega-donors down here. So here\u2019s my message to border communities: if you feel like you\u2019ve been conned, if you feel like you\u2019ve been let down by both political parties, if you feel like politicians aren\u2019t doing anything to lower your costs \u2014 you\u2019ve got a place in this campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tour officially began Saturday in El Paso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Democratic Senate candidate and Texas state Rep. James Talarico will make a campaign stop in Webb County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-369767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369767","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=369767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}