Mayor Cantu and City Attorney Designee Morales Compete for Texas Democratic Party Nomination For House District 74
By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2019
With the surprise announcement from Texas House of Representative Alfonso “Poncho” Nevarez on November 8, 2019 that he would not seek reelection to a fifth two year term in 2020, Texas Democrats Ramsey English Cantu, Mayor of Eagle Pass, and Heriberto “Eddie” Morales, City Attorney Designee of Eagle Pass, have officially filed their candidacies for House District 74 in the upcoming March 3, 2020 Democratic Party Primary.
Both Cantu and Morales have worked together for many years with the City of Eagle Pass with Cantu as Mayor and Morales as the City Attorney Designee. Morales’ law firm of Langley and Banack, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas is City Attorney for the City of Eagle Pass.
Cantu and Morales have found a calling to seek the Texas Democratic Party nomination in the March 3, 2020 Primary Election for Texas House of Representative District 74 in the Texas General Election on November 3, 2020.
Cantu and Morales held a meeting to determine if they could reach an agreement on whether only one of them would run for the House District 74 post, but both felt very strongly that each of them would best represent District 74 so an agreement did not result from this meeting and are now running against each other for the coveted Democratic Party nomination in the March 3, 2020 Primary Election.
Cantu has served on the Eagle Pass City Council since 2006, first as a City Councilman and later became elected Mayor in 2010, which he still currently holds until his successor is elected in a Special City Officers Election on February 1, 2020.
Morales is an attorney with 19 years of experience and his law firm of Langley and Banack, Inc. have served as City Attorney for Eagle Pass for many years with Morales being the lead attorney designee for the firm.
Both Cantu and Morales come from distinguished local families with solid business background and experience. Both work for a law firm as Cantu works for the Law Firm of Earl Herring, P.C. while Morales works as a partner attorney for Langley and Banack, Inc.
Both candidates are waging an aggressive campaign throughout the 12 counties-wide House District 74, which is the largest geographic size district, and is over 800 miles long from southern Maverick County to just outside of southern El Paso, including West Texas, and parts of the Permian Basin, including Fort Stockton and Pecos.
While on the campaign trail, both candidates are adversaries but within the City Council meetings of Eagle Pass they are allies in an attorney-client relationship. Their candidacies have spurred political interest among Eagle Pass and Maverick County registered voters in the March 3, 2020 Texas Democratic Party Primary.
