San Antonio firefighters union President Chris Steele told firefighters that his goal is to secure a labor contract and make Councilman Greg Brockhouse (D6) the next mayor of San Antonio, according to an audio recording shared Wednesday by the campaign to defeat three union-backed ballot propositions.
In the recording the Go Vote No campaign said was made by an unidentified firefighter, Steele says he wants to “put our own guy in the mayor’s office, which would be Greg Brockhouse in the mayor’s office.”
The 49-second recording was given to the Secure San Antonio’s Future (SSAF) political action committee by a firefighter, said Christian Archer, who is managing SSAF’s Go Vote No campaign. “He or she is a coward,” Brockhouse said of the unidentified firefighter. “The cowards are out in full force.