Thursday, March 5, 2009 Campaign Contact: Jacob Middleton
for immediate release 210-867-6338
jacob@castroformayor.com
Media Contact: Alan Weinkrantz
210-820-3070
alan@weinkrantz.com
Julián Castro for Mayor Campaign Innovates With Blogger Summit and First
Ever Bloggers Unite Event for a Political Campaign
(San Antonio, TX) – March 5, 2009 - Julián Castro, candidate for Mayor,
announced today that his campaign will host the first Media/Blogger Summit
of 2009 at the Castro for Mayor campaign headquarters located at 3003
Broadway, March 10, 2009 from 6:00p.m. to 7:30p.m.
This summit, the first of its kind in this mayoral race and in the history
of San Antonio politics, will also be webcasted live over the Internet. In
this unique setting, mayoral candidate Julián Castro will field questions
from both political and social media-centric bloggers from both San
Antonio and Texas.
The summit will feature an online chat room and live webcast, providing
the citizens of San Antonio the opportunity to directly engage and be
virtual participants.
It will also mark the launch of the first-ever Bloggers Unite event for a
political campaign. Bloggers Unite enables like-minded bloggers to join
forces and show their support for causes ranging from the environment to
women, autism and literacy.
“The Julián Castro for Mayor Campaign will be the first political campaign
ever to hold an event on BloggersUnite.org,” stated Tony Berkman,
co-founder of Bloggers Unite. San Antonio-based Berkman is a serial
entrepreneur focused on social web communities and is the CEO of
BlogCatalog, the Internet’s leading site for bloggers. “We applaud Castro
and his team for not only embracing social media strategies, but
illustrating thefact that he ‘gets it,’ when it comes to building
community,” added Berkman.
Log on to:
http://www.bloggersunite.org/event/bloggers-unite-for-julian-castro-for-mayor-2009
to join.
Political and social media bloggers will be in attendance at this summit.
“I want to do my part to ensure that our city successfully competes in the
global economy, enhances its quality of life, and retains its fundamental
character--the sense of community and neighborliness that distinguishes
San Antonio from most big American cities,” said Julián Castro.
“I want to help build San Antonio’s distinctive community not just
neighborhood by neighborhood, but also IP address by IP address,” Castro
added.
Julián Castro is a native of San Antonio. In 2001, Julián was elected to
the San Antonio city council, where he represented District 7. As a
councilman, Julián championed a vision of economic growth, accountable
government and a top-notch quality of life for all San Antonians. After
serving four years on the city council, Julián narrowly lost an election
to become San Antonio’s mayor.
Following his mayoral campaign, Julián founded, The Law Offices of Julián
Castro, PLLC, a civil litigation practice. He has served on the board of
Urban Ministries, Family Services Association and the Clear Channel San
Antonio Advisory Board. In addition to his community service, he has
taught courses at The University of Texas at San Antonio, Trinity
University, and St. Mary’s University.
Julián, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, earned his
undergraduate degree from Stanford University with honors and distinction
in 1996 and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2000. Julián is
married to Erica Lira Castro, a school teacher, and they are expecting a
baby girl, due any day now.
Visit the campaign online at: www.castroformayor.com.
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