A “loser teacher” faced discrimination working for a politician. He ran against her & just won.

City Councilmember-elect Jalen McKee-Rodriguez
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Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is being named the winner of a runoff election for the District 2 city council seat in San Antonio, Texas. He has what is being considered an insurmountable lead over Jada Andrews-Sullivan, the incumbent city councilwoman who he formerly worked for.

According to the Victory Fund, which has declared him as the winner, McKee-Rodriguez is the first out Black man to win election to an office in Texas state history.

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ABC affiliate KSAT.com and CBS affiliate KENS5 have called the race for McKee-Rodriguez. Andrews-Sullivan also expressed recognition of her defeat in a text message to media reporters, although she did not call her opponent or formally concede.

McKee-Rodriguez used to work for her as the district’s communications assistant, then Director of Communications, but quit in 2019 after he says he faced anti-gay discrimination and harassment. He formally filed a complaint with the city against Andrews-Sullivan’s chief of staff, Lou Miller, in October 2019.

Afterwards, McKee-Rodriguez said he faced “retaliation,” was given “unrealistic and impossible expectations and deadlines” and “an increasingly hostile environment which involved isolation and prohibition from doing duties necessary to my job.”

Some of McKee-Rodriguez’s former co-workers backed his claim up. Andrews-Sullivan admitted that the management of her staff had led to unresolved issues, but she denied the problems in the office were targeted or due to McKee-Rodriguez’s identity.

McKee-Rodriguez also said that religious leaders…

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