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June 8, 2005: Headlines: Figures: Staff: Politics: City Government: Election2005 - Hardberger: Reuters: Former Peace Corps Staff Memeber Phil Hardberger, 70, defeated Julian Castro, 30, by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent in a race in which Castro's age and judgment became the key issues after the flap over his brother
Former Peace Corps Staff Memeber Phil Hardberger, 70, defeated Julian Castro, 30, by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent in a race in which Castro's age and judgment became the key issues after the flap over his brother
Former Peace Corps Staff Memeber Phil Hardberger, 70, defeated Julian Castro, 30, by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent in a race in which Castro's age and judgment became the key issues after the flap over his brother
Texas pol who used twin as stand-in defeated
Wed Jun 8, 2005 03:33 AM ET
By Jeff Franks
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A retired Texas judge was elected mayor of San Antonio on Tuesday in a runoff vote against a young city councilman who led the race until his twin brother surreptitiously stood in for him at a civic event.
Phil Hardberger, 70, defeated Julian Castro, 30, by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent in a race in which Castro's age and judgment became the key issues after the flap over his brother.
Identical twin Joaquin Castro rode in Julian Castro's place in the annual River Parade through downtown San Antonio on April 18, smiling and waving to the crowd that thought he was the city councilman and mayoral candidate.
Castro said his brother, who is in the Texas Legislature, was not impersonating him, but admitted that he used him as a stand-in because he had a campaign meeting elsewhere.
Castro, who went to Stanford University and Harvard Law School, had a double-digit lead in the polls before the gaffe and appeared on his way to victory in heavily Hispanic San Antonio, which is the nation's eighth-largest city.
In the May 7 general election he finished in first place, but did not win a majority of the votes and was forced into a runoff with second-place finisher Hardberger.
Hardberger campaigned as the voice of reason and experience and promised to clean up a city government that has been marred in recent years by scandals and controversial leadership under the current mayor, Ed Garza, who could not run for re-election due to term limits.
As the results came in Tuesday night, Hardberger praised Castro as a "very hard campaigner and a very intelligent guy" but said, "I don't think he was ready to be mayor of San Antonio."
Castro said, "Regardless of what happens in this election, we have a great future."
Hardberger was executive secretary of the Peace Corps under Sargent Shriver in the 1960s and is a lawyer who was chief justice of a Texas appellate court until retiring three years ago.
Under San Antonio statutes, he can serve a maximum of two two-year terms as mayor.
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