The man unseated by Rick Galindo in 2009, and the winner of the San Antonio mayoral election of 2009 belong to the same party. They are both democrats.
Philip A. Cortez (born July 7, 1978) is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. 
Julin Castro ( , ] ; born September 16, 1974) is an American Democratic politician who served as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. 
 He narrowly unseated the one-term incumbent Democrat Philip Cortez in the November 4, 2014 general election. 
 The election was won by Julian Castro, who took office on June 1, 2009. 
