William Cager Jr.
William "Willie" Cager Jr. was a candidate for mayor of El Paso in Texas. He was defeated in the general election on May 6, 2017.
Biography
Cager graduated from Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso). He was a member of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship team that inspired the 2005 book and 2006 movie Glory Road.[1][2][3]
Cager started the Willie Cager Foundation, a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to teach at-risk children education, exercise, leadership, and sportsmanship, in 1989. At the time of his 2017 run for office, he was retired from his position as coordinator of the Ysleta Independent School District's after school basketball program.[1][4]
Elections
2017
The following candidates ran in the general election for mayor of El Paso.[5]
| Mayor of El Paso, General Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Donald Margo |
45.31% | 14,918 |
| David Saucedo |
23.95% | 7,885 |
| Emma Acosta | 15.92% | 5,240 |
| Elisa Morales | 5.60% | 1,845 |
| William Cager Jr. | 4.22% | 1,388 |
| Jaime Perez | 2.89% | 952 |
| Charles Stapler | 1.25% | 412 |
| Jorge Artalejo | 0.85% | 281 |
| Total Votes | 32,921 | |
| Source: El Paso County Elections, "Official Final Election Results," accessed May 23, 2017 | ||
Campaign themes
2017
CityBeat Magazine asked the 2017 mayoral candidates what their first priority would be if they were elected. Cager said, "We need to fund our police department and emergency crews. It’s not being done. I would like to make a change for the city. We need to address the streets and fix the potholes. There are things that need to be done and right now it’s not getting done – plain and simple."[6]
See also
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External links
- City of El Paso
- Willie Cager Foundation
- Social media
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Willie Cager Foundation, "About Willie Cager," accessed April 17, 2017
- ↑ Hachette Books, "Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever," November 30, 2005
- ↑ Houston Chronicle, "Glory Road," January 13, 2006
- ↑ Willie Cager Foundation, "About the Foundation," accessed April 17, 2017
- ↑ City of El Paso Municipal Clerk, "May 6, 2017 General Election," accessed February 18, 2017
- ↑ CityBeat Magazine, "Q&A with El Paso's Mayoral Candidates," accessed April 17, 2017
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