| − | In 2019, Reverend Pomeroy announced his candidacy for the District 21 seat in the Texas State Senate. As the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, he faces in the general election on November 3, 2020, the incumbent [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Judith Passas Zaffirini (born 1946) of [[Laredo]], who has held the seat after defeating state Representative [[Billy Hall (Texas politician)|William N. "Billy" Hall, Jr.]], in the 1986 Democratic [[primary]] for the state Senate. Zaffirini since has rarely faced a competitive opponent in her presumably safe-Democratic district . | + | In 2019, Reverend Pomeroy announced his candidacy for the District 21 seat in the Texas State Senate, which encompasses all of Atascosa, Bee, Caldwell, Dimmit, Duval, Jim Hogg, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio, Starr, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala counties and a portion of Bexar, Guadalupe, Travis, and Hays counties. As the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, Pomeroy he faces in the general election on November 3, 2020, the incumbent [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Judith Passas Zaffirini (born 1946) of [[Laredo]], who has held the seat after defeating state Representative [[Billy Hall (Texas politician)|William N. "Billy" Hall, Jr.]], in the 1986 Democratic [[primary]] for the state Senate. Zaffirini since has rarely faced a competitive opponent in her presumably safe-Democratic district . |