ELECTIONS RESULTS
Overview of the General Election results :
Here is a brief overview of the 2020 General Election results .
U . S . President And the winner is … well , we are fairly sure that we will have a new president , Vice-President Joe Biden , starting in mid-January of 2021 . President-Elect Biden won both the electoral college vote and the popular vote ; however , President Trump has not yet conceded , and his lawyers have been filing election / voter fraud lawsuits in various states , in the hopes of overturning the election results – his legal team has filed over two dozen lawsuits , the overwhelming majority of which have been lost or thrown out by the courts . It is just another normal day in 2020 !
Now that we have covered the presidential seat , let us move on …
THANK YOU A huge thank you and congratulations to all the SAAA members who were able to volunteer with the Texas House of Representatives District 121 race . Representative Steve Allison won his highly contested re-election with 54 % of the vote ! These volunteering grassroots efforts go an awfully long way to help the rental housing community !
Major Positive Note An additional positive note is that all the candidates and the proposition that SAAA supported were victorious ! Below is a listing of the winners and the percentage by which each won ; but first , a few highlights .
City of San Antonio Propositions A big win for City of San Antonio leaders and for SAAA , is the passage of “ Proposition B , SA : Ready to Work ” – a workforce development and training proposition to help the city recover from the negative impacts that the pandemic has had on the city ’ s residents . SAAA endorsed and supported Prop . B and it passed with 77 % APPROVAL .
Two other local San Antonio propositions were also approved :
• The City of San Antonio “ Proposition A , Pre-K 4 SA ” with 73 % APPROVAL
• The Transportation District ’ s “ Proposition A , VIA Funding ” with a 68 % APPROVAL .
Texas Legislature ’ s Majority Party One of the biggest state election results stories that is especially important to our industry , is that the highly discussed possibility of the Texas House of Representatives flipping from Republican control to Democrat control did not come to fruition . The majority party for the Texas House remains Republican , and the Texas Senate is still led by a Republican majority , even with the loss of local Republican Senator Pete Flores of Senate District 19 , to former Texas House Representative Democrat Roland Gutierrez .
Below are the winners that SAAA , TAA , &/ or NAA endorsed / supported in the SAAA counties :
U . S . Senate John Cornyn ( R ) – 51 %
U . S . House Joaquin Castro – ( D – TX20 ) – 65 % Henry Cuellar – ( D – TX28 ) – 55 % Lloyd Doggett – ( D – TX35 ) – 65 %