Lupe Valdez Lupe Valdez hopes to emerge as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in a runoff later this month. Lupe Valdez has her eyes set on a doubly historic feat ― a victory in the November elections that would make her both Texas’ first Hispanic governor and the first openly queer person to hold that office. Lupe Valdez Valdez as a young child with her mom and one of her brothers at the Michigan farm where family members were migrant farmworkers every year until she was about 7. “I would have preferred it didn’t come up.” Along with the landmarks her election would set in Texas, Valdez would be the nation’s first lesbian governor (the country’s first openly queer governor, who took office in 2015 in Oregon, identifies as bisexual). Lupe Valdez Valdez has faced criticism from some immigrant advocacy groups over her record as the Dallas County sheriff on issues of concern to them.

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2018 19:41 UTC