If political campaigns were decided purely on the basis of good vibes, then the race to win Texas’s Fifteenth Congressional District might very well have ended on a Thursday evening in mid-September inside a rural banquet hall on Mile 17½ Road in Monte Alto, population 2,350. A group of 200 or so mostly older men and women were sitting in Chiavari chairs at round tables topped with bouquets of fabric roses. A local band was playing onstage, blaring out conjunto standards on accordion and saxophone and bajo sexto. There was a cash bar and plenty of beer. At one point, a dozen or so women—spotless white shirts, sequined cowboy hats—made their way to the dance floor for a coordinated line dance. For over an hour,…The post Bobby Pulido’s Grand Old Democratic Party appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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