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==Political life==

==Political life==

Brehm lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the San Antonio City Council. In the four-candidate field for county chairman, Mark Dorazio was not a candidate for a full-term in the primary held on March 6, 2018, but remained the Precinct 3091 chairman..<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Brehm|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> Other candidates in the primary were Dwight Parscale (the father of [[Donald Trump]] campaign manager [[Brad Parscale]]), who had 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 who carried considerable business support, entered the May 22 runoff with Brehm. Andres Holliday trailed in fourth place 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> Brehm defeated  Ponce Gonzalez, in the runoff contest with nearly 70 percent of the ballots cast.<ref name=facebook>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaBrehmTx/|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 24, 2018}}</ref><ref name=scandal>Gilbert Garcia, "GOP chair faces backlash over husband's scandal" (commentary), ''The San Antonio Express-News,'' May 27, 2018, p. A2.</ref>

Brehm lost a 2015 bid for [[mayor]] of San Antonio and a 2017 race for the District 8 seat on the San Antonio City Council.  

Six months into her tenure as party chairman, Brehm was jolted when the Democrats, with [[Beto O'Rourke]] in his challenge to [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], and [[Lupe Valdez]] in her long-shot bid against [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], swept Bexar County in the mid-term election held on November 6, 2018.  

 

Six months into her tenure as chairman, Brehm was jolted when the Democrats, led by [[Beto O'Rourke]] in his challenge to [[U.S. Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]], and [[Lupe Valdez]], in her long-shot bid against [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], swept Bexar County in the mid-term election held on November 6, 2018.  

Brehm led in the primary election for a second term as chairman in the primary held on March 3, 2020. She polled 24,166 votes (33.5 percent) and now faces John Bernard Austin (born 1968), who trailed Brehm by about 2 percent of the ballots cast. A runoff contest is scheduled for May 26. The owner of JBA, Inc., a real estate appraisal company, Austin also takes conservative positions on issues but maintains that Brehm failed to lead a united party in critical elections in 2018. Austin is endorsed by the four preceding Webb County chairmen, including his campaign treasurer, San Antonio attorney [[Roy Barrera, Jr.]], chairman from 1992 to 2004, and [[Robert Stovall]], the chairman from 2013 to 2017. Austin's wife, the former Daphne Previti, is an attorney and former judge of the Texas 289th District Court, with service from 2015 to 2018, when she was unseated by a Democrat, Carlos Quezada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://electjohnaustin.com/|title=John Austin: Endorsed by Trusted, Proven, Local Republican Leaders|publisher=Electjohnaustin.com|accessdate=March 14, 2020}}</ref> Meanwhile, Daphne Austin is the Republican nominee for the the District 386 judgeship in the forthcoming general election on November 3, 2020. In that contest she faces the Democrat Jacqueline Valdés, who easily outpolled Austin in their respective primaries on March 3.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Daphne_Previti_Austin|title=Daphne Previti Austin|publisher=Ballotpedia.com|accessdate=March 14, 2020}}</ref>

Brehm led in the primary election for a second term as chairman in the primary held on March 3, 2020. She polled 24,166 votes (33.5 percent) and now faces John Bernard Austin (born 1968), who trailed Brehm by about 2 percent of the ballots cast. A runoff contest is scheduled for May 26. The owner of JBA, Inc., a real estate appraisal company, Austin also takes conservative positions on issues but maintains that Brehm failed to lead a united party in critical elections in 2018. Austin is endorsed by the four preceding Webb County chairmen, including his campaign treasurer, San Antonio attorney [[Roy Barrera, Jr.]], chairman from 1992 to 2004, and [[Robert Stovall]], the chairman from 2013 to 2017. Austin's wife, the former Daphne Previti, is an attorney and former judge of the Texas 289th District Court, with service from 2015 to 2018, when she was unseated by a Democrat, Carlos Quezada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://electjohnaustin.com/|title=John Austin: Endorsed by Trusted, Proven, Local Republican Leaders|publisher=Electjohnaustin.com|accessdate=March 14, 2020}}</ref> Meanwhile, Daphne Austin is the Republican nominee for the the District 386 judgeship in the forthcoming general election on November 3, 2020. In that contest she faces the Democrat Jacqueline Valdés, who easily outpolled Austin in their respective primaries on March 3.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Daphne_Previti_Austin|title=Daphne Previti Austin|publisher=Ballotpedia.com|accessdate=March 14, 2020}}</ref>