Castro hosts Blogger Summit @ Mayoral Campaign Hqs.

Julian Castro (photo)

Mayoral candidate

Julián Castro, candidate for Mayor, announced that his campaign will host the first Media/Blogger Summitof 2009 at the Castro for Mayor campaign headquarters located at 3003 Broadway, March 10th from 6-7:30 p.m.

This summit, the first of its kind in this mayoral race and in the history of San Antonio politics, will also be webcasted live over the Internet. In this unique setting, mayoral candidate Julián Castro will field questions from both political and social media-centric bloggers from both San Antonio and Texas.

The summit will feature an online chat room and live webcast, providing the citizens of San Antonio the opportunity to directly engage and be virtual participants. It will also mark the launch of the first-ever Bloggers Unite event for a political campaign.

Bloggers Unite enables like-minded bloggers to join forces and show their support for causes ranging from the environment to women, autism and literacy.

“The Julián Castro for Mayor Campaign" will be the first political campaign ever to hold an event on BloggersUnite.org,” stated Tony Berkman, co-founder of Bloggers Unite. San Antonio-based Berkman is a serial entrepreneur focused on social web communities and is the CEO of Blog Catalog, the Internet’s leading site for bloggers.

“We applaud Castro and his team for not only embracing social media strategies, but illustrating the fact that he ‘gets it,’ when it comes to building community,” added Berkman.

Log on to: http://www.bloggersunite.org/event/bloggers-unite-for-julian-castro-formayor-2009 to join. Political and social media bloggers will be in attendance at this summit.“I want to do my part to ensure that our city successfully competes in the global economy, enhances its quality of life, and retains its fundamentalc haracter--the sense of community and neighborliness that distinguishes San Antonio from most big American cities,” said Julián Castro.

“I want to help build San Antonio’s distinctive community not just neighborhood by neighborhood, but also IP address by IP address,” Castro added.

Julián, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University with honors and distinction in 1996 and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2000.

Julián is married to Erica Lira Castro, a school teacher, and they are expecting a baby girl, due any day now.

Visit the campaign online at: www.castroformayor.com.