Filemon Vela and his wife Rose play both sides of the fence. His mother was elected mayor of Brownsville in 1999 as a Republican, and his wife was a Democrat on the Texas 13th Circuit Court of Appeals (the most overturned appellate court in Texas) till she swiched parties to run for reelection in 2006. Some of the Democrat activists I've talked to were upset that he ran for and won the Democrat nomination. His Republican opponent in the general election, Jessica Puente Bradshaw, had just 10% of Vela's funding for her campaign.
What really pisses me off is that his wife Rose Vela dropped out as the 2012 Republican candidate for Chief Justice of the Texas 13th Circuit Court of Appeals too late to legally allow the Republican party to field a replacement candidate. After the disastrous elections on Tuesday, we now have just 1 Republican on the 13th Circuit.