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'''Mark Evan Dorazio''' (born January 4, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-dorazio/e183709701456|title=Mark E. Dorazio|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who is the interim chairman of the [[Republican Party]] in Bexar County. He assumed the position in December 2017, when the incumbent [[Robert Stovall]] resigned to run in the March 6, 2018, primary for the District 21 seat being vacated by the long-term Republican incumebent [[Lamar Smith]].

'''Mark Evan Dorazio''' (born January 4, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-dorazio/e183709701456|title=Mark E. Dorazio|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who is the interim chairman of the [[Republican Party]] in Bexar County. He assumed the position in December 2017, when the incumbent [[Robert Stovall]] resigned to run in the March 6, 2018, primary for the District 21 seat being vacated by the long-term Republican incumebent [[Lamar Smith]].

A week after Dorazio became county chairman, the county executive committee pushed through a resolution to [[censure]] Straus for his RINO positions even though Straus had already announced that he would not seek to remain a House member in 2019. Dorazio's backers were largely the grassroots leaders who bucked Straus and Larson. However, Dorzaio soon found himself in partial agreement with another Bexar County RINO, Jeff Wentworth, the current justice of the peace in Precinct 3 and a former state senator who was unseated in 2014 by the more conservative [[Donna Campbell]] of New Braunfels. Campbell faces an intraparty challenge in the March 6 primary from another female candidate, the moderate Republican, Shannon McClendon. The party rejected the candidacy of Wentworth's only primary opponent, Russ Latham, after it was found that sixty-five of Latham's petition signers did not reside in Bexar County.<ref name=ggarcia/>

A week after Dorazio became county chairman, the county executive committee pushed through a resolution to [[censure]] Straus for his RINO positions even though Straus had already announced that he would not seek to remain a House member in 2019. Dorazio's backers were largely the grassroots leaders who bucked Straus and Larson. However, Dorzaio soon found himself in partial agreement with another Bexar County RINO, Jeff Wentworth, the current justice of the peace in Precinct 3 and a former state senator who was unseated in 2014 by the more conservative [[Donna Campbell]] of New Braunfels. Campbell faces an intraparty challenge in the March 6 primary from another female candidate, the moderate Republican, Shannon McClendon. The party rejected the candidacy of Wentworth's only primary opponent, Russ Latham, after it was found that sixty-five of Latham's petition signers did not reside in Bexar County.<ref name=ggarcia/>

Dorazio is not a candidate for a full-term as Bexar County chairman in the March 6 primary but is the Precinct 3091 chairman. Cynthia Brehm, who lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the city council, is one of four candidates seeking the chairmanship. She is self-identified as a conservative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Brehm|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> Other candidates are Dwight Pascale, who lost the interim election to Dorazio, JoAnn Ponce Gonzalez, and Andres Holliday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexargop.org/candidate_filing-4/|title=Bexar County Republican Candidate Filing List|date=December 22, 2017|publisher=Bexargop.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref>

Dorazio is not a candidate for a full-term as Bexar County chairman in the March 6 primary but is the Precinct 3091 chairman. Cynthia Brehm, who lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the city council, led the four-candidate field seeking the chairmanship. She is self-identified as a social conservative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Brehm|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> Other candidates are Dwight Pascale, who lost the interim election to Dorazio, and finished the primary with 21 percent of the ballots cast. JoAnn Ponce Gonzalez (23 percent), a former agent with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, enters the May 22 runoff with Brehm. Andres Holliday finished fourth with the remaining 11 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/06/heres-how-five-most-interesting-local-texas-primaries-turned-out/|title=Here's how six of Texas' most interesting local primaries turned out: Bexar County Republican Party Chair|publisher=''The Texas Tribune''|author=Rishika Dugyala|date=March 7, 2018|accessdate=March `12, 2018}}</ref>  

 

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