The county judge race is finally over, and with its conclusion comes a new beginning for Cameron County.
Although it was close, Eddie Treviño Jr. has defeated Dan Sanchez in what election officials said was the biggest primary runoff race on the ballot. The final count was 9,163 to 8,184.
There is no Republican candidate for county judge.
“One of the reasons I didn’t run for re-election as mayor was because my game plan was to run for county judge, which I did initially back in 2010, and while we won the primary we fell short in the runoff. We didn’t want to take anything for granted this time out, and we kept pushing,” Treviño said.
Treviño says he is ready to get to work. His first action will be to look at the county budget.
After the budget is taken care of, he will reach out to all the county’s leaders — both elected officials and community leaders.
“Part of the problem we’ve seen and heard is the lack of communication between the commissioner’s court and the communities small and large. It’s critical to set up positive lines of communication with the community to help them and work out problems,” Treviño said.
Sanchez said he was grateful to everyone for the support and that regardless of the outcome, he had already won.
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