Corpus Christi has a long history of being Democrat controlled so I’m not surprised about the newspaper. A Republican was elected as some kind of county official a couple of years ago, and he went to his office one day and shot himself in the head and died right there. That was really bad for Republicans in that county to have that happen.
Actually much has changed here. The county commission is 3-2 in favor of the GOP. Numerous GOP’ers hold county offices in other capacities. And even the once solid bloc of Hispanics the Democrats relied on are not so aligned with the Democrats like they once were because many are second or more generations removed from their parents thinking from their homelands. The newspaper, on the other hand, seems to ignore that fact and continues to live as it were the 70’s or 80’s when the only Republican you would see on the ballot was during the November elections and even Republicans voted in the Rat primary’s because that is where the majority of the local and county races were decided as they ran unopposed in November. That is no longer true here, but still the same old song in the Rio Grande Valley for example. I think the paper along with the one in the Rio Grande Valley resents this fact and lives for those good ol days when it had more influence.