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Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa made her pitch to Houston voters Tuesday afternoon on a rooftop at the edge of downtown Houston, taking questions from moderator Don Lemon and audience members at Courier Texas’ “On the Ballot” event six weeks before Election Day.
Hinojosa is trying to become the first Democrat elected statewide in Texas since 1994. She built much of her case around what she called a Republican state leadership that has failed working Texans.
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Brian McManus
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Brian McManus is Texas political editor at Courier Texas. A fourth-generation native Texan based in Houston, he covers the political and economic forces reshaping the state—including the data center boom, housing affordability, immigration enforcement, inequality, and the ways decisions made in Austin and Washington land on ordinary people across Texas.
A veteran journalist and editor, he has held senior roles at Vice and BuzzFeed, and served as music editor at the Village Voice. In past lives he has also been a touring musician and a professional chef—careers that, more than he expected, inform how he thinks about the people and communities he covers today. Contact: brian@couriernewsroom.com | Instagram: @brianmctx