“You need to know not just the policy of planned growth, quality of life, transportation [and] taxation,” she said, but “how to work relationships. … I was a Democrat in a Republican majority and able to get things done for San Antonio.”

State Rep. Ina Minjarez talks to those attending Saturday’s “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally and march at Main Plaza. Minjarez is a candidate for Bexar County judge. Hundreds of people congregated in Main Plaza on Saturday morning to protest threats to women’s access to abortions. Even blocks away from the epicenter of the crowd, their chant was audible: “Bans off our bodies! Bans off our bodies!”