Democratic Presidential Challenger; former HUD Secretary
Supported military expansion into cybersecurity
By 2011 the military's economic impact in the city was measured at $27.7 billion, larger than any other sector. After the US Cyber Command announced plans in 2009 to hire one thousand cyber experts, Castro co-signed a letter asking for them to be
headquartered in the city. "San Antonio is producing the brainpower in the twenty-first century to defend our nation," he told a cybersecurity conference held by the St. Mary's University Center for Terrorism Law.
Source: Jacobin Magazine on 2020 Democratic primary contenders
, Feb 15, 2019
