The city’s Ethics Review Board dismissed a local GOP official’s complaint alleging Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones broke the city’s ethics rules by using official city letterhead to court the 2028 Democratic National Convention .

Jones did not attend the hearing, but filed a written response on Sept. 30 asking for the board to dismiss the complaint. She said that “securing major conventions” is a legitimate part of her role as mayor, and that she ran the letter by City Attorney Andy Segovia before it was sent.

On Monday, she was represented by a former city attorney, Frank Garza, who said the convention application was actually initiated by the city’s tourism nonprofit, Visit San Antonio, and that the “complaint was filed to harass the mayor.”

He provided numerous emails between Jones, City

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