Eagle Pass Independent School District and Maverick County Hospital District Board Candidates Go Unchallenged
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2022
While most Texas communities have a robust political climate with candidates challenging incumbents for different public posts, Eagle Pass is the exception as no candidates registered to challenge the incumbent Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors scheduled for re-election in the November 8, 2022 General Election.
In the Eagle Pass Independent School District, there are three incumbent Board of Trustees whose terms expire this year and registered for re-election, specifically Trustee and Board Vice-President Hilda P. Martinez, Trustee Lupita Fuentes, and Trustee Victor E. Perry, Jr. The August 22, 2022 deadline came and went to file as a candidate without any other local citizens registering for any of the three posts scheduled for election on November 8.
Eagle Pass ISD Board of Trustees Hilda P. Martinez, Lupita Fuentes, and Victor E. Perry, Jr. will be declared the winners unopposed in the November 8 election.
Similarly, in the Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors two positions are scheduled for election in the November 8 ballot, namely Board President Aaron Valdez and Board of Director Adolfo “Fito” Olivares, Both Valdez and Olivares registered for re-election, but no one in the community registered to challenge either one of them in the November 8 election. Valdez and Olivares will be declared the winners in the November 8 election due to the lack of any opponent.
A longtime Maverick County political observer noted that while there have been some public offices that have gone unchallenged, it is the first time that a complete slate of a certain political entity, such as the Eagle Pass Independent School District and the Maverick County Hospital District, posts scheduled for election have gone unchallenged. The political observer opined that either the incumbent candidates are doing a good job or there is a lack of public service interest among local citizens in Maverick County.
Whatever the reason, Maverick County citizens will not have a choice for these positions in the November 8 election. The lack of challengers stepping up to register as candidates has already decided the fate of these public posts.
