Marcos Ronquillo Wants to Be Dallas’ First Latino Mayor

*Here we go. Another Latino running for Mayor of one of the largest cities in the country. This Latino is named Marcos Ronquillo, and he’s running for Mayor of Dallas. VL

By Suzane Gamboa, NBC News

SHINGTON, DC — He is a Latino running for mayor and considers himself an anti-establishment candidate. No, he is not Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, the Chicago mayoral candidate making headlines; this time, the candidate is a Texan.

Marcos Ronquillo is challenging Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, who is seeking re-election. In doing so, Ronquillo has billed himself as a candidate taking on some of the gleaming Texas city’s entrenched ways of doing business.

Being an anti-establishment candidate means taking on “the old way of thinking with respect to neighborhoods, with respect to economic development and transportation,” Ronquillo told NBC. It means rejecting the long tradition of the Dallas Citizens Council recruiting the mayoral candidates and then funding the campaign, he said.

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