| | Dorazio was not a candidate for a full-term as Bexar County chairman in the March 6 primary but remains the Precinct 3091 chairman. 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 for county 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 March 6 primary were Dwight 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 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> | | Dorazio was not a candidate for a full-term as Bexar County chairman in the March 6 primary but remains the Precinct 3091 chairman. 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 for county 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 March 6 primary were Dwight 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 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> |
| − | A descendant of original settlers from the [[Canary Islands]] who were instrumental in the founding of San Antonio, Brehm defeated Ponce Gonzalez in the runoff contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaBrehmTx/|title=Cynthia Brehm|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 24, 2018}}</ref> | + | A descendant of original settlers from the [[Canary Islands]] who were instrumental in the founding of San Antonio, Brehm defeated Ponce Gonzalez in the runoff contest with nearly 70 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{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> As soon as she was elected chairman, it was reported that Brehm had refused to reveal details of a sexual misconduct scandal involving her husband, Norman Brehm, a retired military officer since employed by General Dynamics Corporation in [[Afghanistan]]. The two have lived apart for seven years. Cynthia lives in a $647,000 home that they co-own. He can visit her only occasionally because of the distance between Texas and Afghanistan. Patty Gibbons, a past Brehm supporter and critic of Speaker Joe Straus, said that she is appalled to learn of Norman Brehm's indecency case and questions Cynthia Brehm for trying to keep the matter private. In an email on May 25, 2018, Brehm said that her husband "sadly got into [[pornography]] and did something absolutely stupid. He flashed my 14-year-old daughter." Norman Brehm escaped prosecution on an indecency charge because his case was forward after expiration of the [[statute of limitations]]. On May 13, 2009, the sentence for the indecency charge was set aside by the [[United States Army]] Court of Criminal Appeals.<ref name=scandal/> |