(Ed.'s Note: When Marisol, a Hanna High School Early College student took this photo of the campaign worker at the Brownsville Independent School District Main Office, she thought it was just one of the campaign workers paid by candidates to push for them.
Only today, she found out that it wasn't just any paid campaign worker pushing her candidate, but that ti was Prisci Roca-Tipton's mother under the striped umbrella. Later we also found out that her father was working the other entrance of the main building.
We've heard about a mother's love, and this is a clear example of that lofty sentiment. Besides Roca-Tipton, other candidates running include Randy Gonzales, incumbent Joe "Coach" Rodriguez, and Jorge Valdez.
The excitement created by Beto O'Rourke in his run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Cruz is apparently fueling the interest in this election cycle. And that is spilling out into the rest of the races. Below are the early voting results for Monday in the general election, and the early vote in the BISD races by voting sites. (Click to enlarge.)
It's interesting to note that Monday's turnout of 6,875 is about six times as many as the 1,286 votes cast in the March primaries in the county.
By comparison, there were 2,471 votes cast in the first day of the November 2016 early voting period in the BISD to the 2,509 cast Monday, indicating that there is a core number of voters in the district and that the 11 candidates are vying for the same voters.