April 13, 2004
Not a DINO, but an Embarrassment
By Byron LaMasters
Gabi Canales lost tonight as well to Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles in a landslide (73-27%). Canales had been something of an embarrassment to the party with her DWI charge and her attempts to use her position in the legislature to help her legal clients. I don't know much about Gonzalez Toureilles, but at the very least, she seems to be an ethical improvement for the district.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at April 13, 2004 09:58 PM
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Her father, the District Judge in Alice, was removed from office and barred from holding judicial office again by the Supreme Court, based upon findings that he groped and fondeled female staffers. He ran against the incumbent DA in the primary and lost in a landslide.