CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 19, in Nueces County, where local Democratic and Republican leaders are encouraging voters to prepare for the election while offering different assessments of the political climate.
Conor Rice, chair of the Nueces County Democratic Party, criticized Republican leadership over issues including the economy and the region’s ongoing water crisis. Carmen Calderone Jr., chair of the Nueces County Republican Party, pointed to what he described as progress under local Republican leadership.
“All the effects that you’re feeling, whether it’s at the pump … all the way down you have Republican leadership, and that is what we get,” Rice said. “We’re in a water crisis, at the behest of the governor, at the behest of a state legislature that refuses to act on water, at the behest of a Republican county commissioner and a Republican county judge.”…