Police at Laredo Applebee's, unconfirmed reports say gun was fired.Affidavit: Man made threats via social media.Cisneros said the hotline "has been ringing nonstop all day since yesterday when we put out that call." Cisneros' campaign is urging mail voters to check online to make sure their ballot was accepted, if not, to call the campaign's "voter protection hotline" to see if they can fix it. Tuesday is also the deadline for voters to "cure" mail ballots that were rejected. And then counties have until Thursday to finalize their results and report them to the state. The deadline for military and overseas ballots is Tuesday, May 31, a day later than usual due to Memorial Day. Mail ballots that were postmarked by 7 p.m.
Ramirez ran as a moderate, while Vallejo campaigned as a progressive.Ī timeline is now playing out at the county level where outstanding ballots can still be counted. That cast a harsh spotlight on Cuellar’s status as one of the few remaining Democrats in Congress who oppose abortion.Īnd Republicans see the 15th District as one of their top pickup opportunities nationwide - and the centerpiece to their new push to turn South Texas red. The race was upended twice, first by an FBI raid of Cuellar’s Laredo home before the primary and then by the leaking of a U.S. The moderate Cuellar’s long political career is on the line against Cisneros, a progressive. But like in Cuellar’s race, a final resolution likely will not come into focus until early next week.īoth runoffs have national implications. At least two counties - Hidalgo and Jim Wells - have since updated their results, changing her lead to 27 votes. In the 15th District, Vallejo came out of election night with a 23-vote lead, and both she and Ramirez agreed it was too close to call.
Due to the upcoming holiday weekend, many probably will not get counted until early next week, she said. Note: “McInturff, Steve Book, Delaware O.Cuellar declared victory on election night, but Cisneros has not conceded and told reporters Thursday she is “within reach to go and win this thing.” After speaking with election offices, she said, it is “very clear” there are still hundreds of uncounted mail-in and provisional ballots. Photo strip, undated, 35 x 27 mm, provenance: US, (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Photograph, 1951, 121 x 83 mm, note: “1951” “Davis & J.C.” (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Photograph, Undated, 96 x 67 mm (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions) Cabinet card, circa 1880, 167 x 109 mm, provenance: US, The book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s (5 Continents Editions), is available online. When we see them as connected, we feel more whole, and that’s what love is about for many of us anyway. Seeing ourselves in the past is as much about being certain of our present and, dare I say, our future. What do images of men in love during a time when it was illegal tell us? What are we looking for in the faces of these people who dared to challenge the mores of their time to seek solace together? Flipping through the book, it wasn’t that I felt that I learned a great deal about being LGBTQ, but what gave me comfort was the feeling that we’re not going anywhere. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2,800 photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s, hundreds of images tell the story of love and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. Hunter” (image courtesy of the Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions)Ī beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (1850–1950) is part of a new book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find love in one another’s arms. Postcard, circa 1910, 90 x 141 mm, note on front: “E.