Peter Sakai for Bexar County judge - does a candidate who thinks ‘substance beats style’ really stand a chance?
, or hear a heartwarming endorsement from two adoptive parents who went through his much-acclaimed court.
“Oh, the bridges, so many bridges,” says a teasing Sakai supporter in the county courthouse. “That’s our Peter.” It flew in the face of Sakai’s personal beliefs. “But that was a rule of law decision,” Sakai explained recently. He said he immediately certified the case, so it could be promptly appealed. The Democrat-controlled Fourth Court of Appeals upheld his ruling, as did the Republican-controlled Texas Supreme Court., 58 percent to 42 percent, resulting in November’s face-off with DeBerry. Minjares declined to be interviewed for this story.
But DeBerry also was seizing on Verette’s having once been married to Dr. George M. Rapier III, founder of WellMed Medical Management.when a former WellMed executive-level consultant was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly converting for his own use hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations Rapier and his then-wife intended for two nonprofit organizations.
After her election, DeBerry, the company founder, stepped down as CEO and said she reduced her ownership stake and handled only private-sector clients. The company continued working for public agencies, but DeBerry says she never had to recuse herself because of a conflict of interest. While the race for county judge will touch on other issues such as deputy salaries, overtime for jail guards and how the public health department may be restructured, those are unlikely to convert many partisan voters. But the issue of how Sakai and DeBerry view Donald Trump boils beneath the surface.Josie Norris, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
“Your opinion of Trump is a sanity and backbone screen for millions of Americans,” says a national campaign consultant who often works in Texas. “Will you speak the truth or are you so scared about your base you lose the courage of your convictions?” They met and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley. Their first date did not go particularly well. They both lived in San Antonio and she, a lover of classical music, thought his invitation to a concert would mean a symphony hall. Instead, he took her to “The Drum” arena — now called the Moody Center — in Austin to hear Linda Ronstadt.
He and Rachel have two grown children. Elizabeth is a criminal defense lawyer in Houston and George is a project manager with Chevron Phillips Chemical in Lake Jackson. By now, Sakai’s uncommon American biography is known to many San Antonians. He was born in 1954 in McAllen to Pete Yutaka Sakai and Rosemarie Kawahata Sakai, American-born children to Japanese parents. His father, as a high school kid in California during World War II, was confined with his family in the U.S. Japanese internment camp in Poston, Ariz., built on an Indian reservation in the Yuma desert.
At the largely Hispanic school, he was picked on and got into fights. “I was very proud and never shied away from who I was,” he recalls. “I put up with the slant-eye gestures and was forever teased about being a cheap Japanese knock-off.” He later married a Hispanic woman and speaks sufficient Spanglish.
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