Vela is a close ally of President Joe Biden and was in talks for a Biden administration position. Vicente Gonzalez is now running for reelection to Congress in the 34th district, a safer Democratic district than his current one.Ībbott, a Republican, did not immediately announce a special election to replace Vela. After Texas redistricting took place, current TX-15 Democratic Rep. Filemón Bartolomé Vela ( April 13, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Vela announced he wouldn’t seek reelection for his seat in Texas’ 34th Congressional District last March. President Donald Trump performed better than expected with Hispanic voters in the Rio Grande Valley, making districts there, including Vela’s and a handful of others, key pickup targets for Republicans. Vela represented a district near the US-Mexico border and won his district by 55% in November 2020. It has been a profound honor to represent the people of the 34th Congressional District of Texas for the last nine years, and my distinct pleasure to serve under your leadership,” Vela told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in his resignation letter. House of Representatives, effective today at 11:59 PM EST. “I write to inform you that I have notified Texas Governor Greg Abbott of my resignation from the U.S. Whether it is Marco Rubios comments on Trumps little hands, or, more recently, Congressman Filemon Velas suggestion that Trump take his wall and put it. Vela is joining Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Filemon Vela, a Texas Democrat, officially resigned from Congress on Thursday night to take a position at a law and lobbying firm in Washington, DC, starting the process to set up a special election to replace him.
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