After former Attorney General Dan Morales jumped into the governor’s race against billionaire businessman Tony Sanchez of Laredo, the inevitable happened at the ballot box — Democrats and Hispanic voters turned out in droves. The only aspect of the race that was uncalculated was just how badly Morales would lose this battle for the emerging Hispanic vote in Texas. Sanchez used his nearly unlimited personal wealth to get his message out and brush Morales aside, experts say.
“Money talks,” says Steven Greene, political science professor at Texas Tech University. “Sanchez had it; Morales didn’t.”
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