Cameron County
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Mauro GarzaRepublicanEsteban "Steve" GuerraDemocratic
On ballot as
Mauro Garza
Esteban "Steve" Guerra
Current role
Not found
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Background
- Health-field researcher (per campaign's June 2025 launch press release, San Benito News)
- Has built several businesses (per the same release)
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Experience
- Announced campaign for county judge (June 2025) (per San Benito News)
- Career in business, education, healthcare, research, nonprofit leadership and public service (per campaign)
- Port of Brownsville board chairman, four years (per KRGV)
- Port of Brownsville board (elected 2018) (per KRGV)
- Democratic primary runoff (May 26, 2026): won, 55.19% over incumbent County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. (per unofficial results)
Top priorities
- Water: "Ensure that water never becomes a barrier to the prosperity and growth of Cameron County."
- Infrastructure: "improving drainage, maintaining county roads, modernizing public facilities"
- Jobs: "Grow an economy that creates opportunity for every generation."
- Taxpayers: "Responsible budgets, transparent decisions, and outside funding that eases the burden on local families."
- Public safety: "Supporting law enforcement and ensuring our county is ready to respond when families need it most."
- Top priority, economic development: "I tell them you have to come pay our people fair wages" (KRGV, March 2026)
- "The Port of Brownsville has an impeccable record and that's what we want to bring to Cameron County."
- "I'm going to go in and we're going to return this office to the people"
Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: Campaign site: "Responsible budgets, transparent decisions, and outside funding that eases the burden on local families."
- Growth and infrastructure: Campaign site: "Planning ahead for growth and investing in the roads and services our communities rely on every day."
- Flooding and drainage: Campaign site: "That means improving drainage, maintaining county roads, modernizing public facilities, and planning for the next generation"
- Public safety: Campaign site: "Supporting law enforcement and ensuring our county is ready to respond when families need it most."
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: Told KRGV before the March 2026 primary: "When I'm talking to these companies that are looking at investing in South Texas, I tell them you have to come pay our people fair wages"
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
Endorsements
None found in our research
None found in our research
Mauro Garza
Republican- On ballot as
- Mauro Garza
- Current role
- Not found
- Background
- Health-field researcher (per campaign's June 2025 launch press release, San Benito News)
- Has built several businesses (per the same release)
- Experience
- Announced campaign for county judge (June 2025) (per San Benito News)
- Career in business, education, healthcare, research, nonprofit leadership and public service (per campaign)
- Top priorities
- Water: "Ensure that water never becomes a barrier to the prosperity and growth of Cameron County."
- Infrastructure: "improving drainage, maintaining county roads, modernizing public facilities"
- Jobs: "Grow an economy that creates opportunity for every generation."
- Taxpayers: "Responsible budgets, transparent decisions, and outside funding that eases the burden on local families."
- Public safety: "Supporting law enforcement and ensuring our county is ready to respond when families need it most."
- Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: Campaign site: "Responsible budgets, transparent decisions, and outside funding that eases the burden on local families."
- Growth and infrastructure: Campaign site: "Planning ahead for growth and investing in the roads and services our communities rely on every day."
- Flooding and drainage: Campaign site: "That means improving drainage, maintaining county roads, modernizing public facilities, and planning for the next generation"
- Public safety: Campaign site: "Supporting law enforcement and ensuring our county is ready to respond when families need it most."
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- mauroforjudge.com
Esteban "Steve" Guerra
Democratic- On ballot as
- Esteban "Steve" Guerra
- Current role
- Not found
- Background
- Not found
- Experience
- Port of Brownsville board chairman, four years (per KRGV)
- Port of Brownsville board (elected 2018) (per KRGV)
- Democratic primary runoff (May 26, 2026): won, 55.19% over incumbent County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. (per unofficial results)
- Top priorities
- Top priority, economic development: "I tell them you have to come pay our people fair wages" (KRGV, March 2026)
- "The Port of Brownsville has an impeccable record and that's what we want to bring to Cameron County."
- "I'm going to go in and we're going to return this office to the people"
- Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: Told KRGV before the March 2026 primary: "When I'm talking to these companies that are looking at investing in South Texas, I tell them you have to come pay our people fair wages"
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
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