Billy Leo

Kaitlin Bell, an Observer intern who used to write about city government for the McAllen, Texas-based Monitor, has a fun interview with one of Hillary Clinton’s surrogates in South Texas.

Among other things, the surrogate – Billy Leo, the mayor of La Joya – says that the Obama organization down there is much better than the Clinton organization, but that the area’s Hispanic population is still very fond of the Clintons.

In South Texas, one of the state's remaining Democratic strongholds, people love the Clintons. They know Bill's favorite taco restaurant in McAllen, a city of about 150,000 on the Mexico border. They mobbed him at a Barnes & Noble last fall. They named a school after him.

So things should look pretty good for Hillary Clinton in next week's Texas primary.  read more »