During the drawing of the places on the ballot, several of them expressed anger that the statewide Democratic leadership would allow people like Fil Jr. Other Vela hand-picked GOP candidates include Jaime Tijerina to run against Democrat Nelda Rodriguez for Place 4 on the 13th Court of Appeals and Doug Norman to challenge Gina Benavides, the Democratic candidate for Place 5 on the Appeals Court.That has raised some eyebrows among the Democratic faithful. He is reported to have contributed thousands of dollars to the Republican cause and recruited GOP candidate Tom Greenwell to run for Place 2 on the 13th Court of Appeals against Democrat Nora Longoria. seeking re-election for 2012 in Nueces County, is running as a Democrat for the newly-created congressional seat District 34. She was elected to the 13th Court f Appeals in 2006 as a Republican.įil Vela, who is listed as treasurer for Connie Scott, a Republican state Rep. Rose Vela first was elected to the bench in 1998, to the 148th District Court as a Democrat. The Chief Justice is based out of Corpus Christi and Edinburg, Texas. The 13th Court of Appeals serves twenty counties from Cameron to Matagorda with five Justices. Today, Rose Vela is running against Democrat Roy Valdez for reelection as Chief Justice of the 13th Court of Appeals. comes from a family of prominent Rio Grande Valley Democrats. But in 2006 she declared herself a Republican candidate for the 13th Court of Appeals. that it was only a suggestion and “there’s no guarantees or assurances that anything is going to happen.”ĭespite the $4,000 donation, Perry appointed Guzman to the position vacated when Supreme Court Justice Scott Brister announced he was stepping down from the high court, allowing Perry to seek a temporary replacement. I would withdraw the endorsement (of Hutchinson), I would contribute to the campaign, I would support him,” Cascos recalled. The county judge, however, remembered it different.Ĭascos said the advice was meant “from one friend to another” and not as a message from Perry or anybody who works for him. That was $4,000, according to campaign finance records. In a second phone call, Cascos suggested matching his donation to Hutchinson with one to Perry to “even it up,” Filemon Vela said. told the reporter from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that Cascos said Perry’s office “will never consider Rose unless you switch your endorsement.”
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vacillated between renouncing Hutchinson and embracing Perry, he outed Cascos with the media, insinuating that Perry – through Cascos – had demanded a payoff in return for the appointment.Īt the time, Cascos told the media that there were never any assurances of a quid pro quo as Vela Jr. When the appointment for his wife did not materialize after Fil Jr.
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Guzman became the first Latina to win election to a statewide office in Texas in 2010, securing a full six-year term on the state’s highest civil court. Perry ultimately appointed Eva Guzman of Houston. “It’s clear that despite her qualifications, that when it came to the appointment, she was not on a level playing field because I had contributed to Hutchison and I wasn’t going to switch my support just to help her get the appointment,” Fil Jr. told a Corpus Christi newspaper then that he was dismayed by what Cascos told him: He needed to publicly disavow his support of Hutchnison, get on the Perry re-election bandwagon, and give the governor some campaign money in order for his wife to even be considered for the appointment. sought out a known Perry intimate and supporter – Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos – to help his wife get the appointment.
Unfortunately, the Velas had backed the wrong horse in the governor's race, his rival Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Many people Coastal Bend residents remember back in 2009 when a vacancy opened up on the Texas Supreme Court and his wife, Corpus Christi Judge Rose Vela, was seeking the appointment to the court through the good offices of Texas Gov.
has been courting the halls of power either through the promotion of his wife and friends, or through flip-flopping political parties as it becomes convenient to him to have a shot at grabbing the brass ring. Even before this year's election cycle began, Filemon Vela Jr.
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