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You probably haven't heard of Chris Mapp, a South Texas boat salesman and one of the six also-rans challenging John Cornyn in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and here's hoping you never have occasion to hear of him again after March 4. If you do, chances are disconcertingly high that it will somehow involve a smoking rifle and a dead Mexican. That would at least be in line with what he told the center-right editorial board of The Dallas Morning News, the most influential newspaper in the state: South Texas businessman Chris Mapp, 53, told this editorial board that...

A Republican hopeful for the U.S. Senate who used a racial slur to describe undocumented immigrants has defended the language as “normal” in South Texas. Chris Mapp, a Port O'Connor businessman, stood by his comments that “wetbacks” should be shot by ranchers and that President Barack Obama is a “socialist son of a bitch” — remarks that have created a national stir among both parties. “That kind of rhetoric is discouraging from anybody,” U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said during a visit to a San Antonio charter school Friday. “I recognize this is a free country but that's not the...

KSAT-12 reached out to Chris Mapp's campaign for a statement Friday. His response follows: Our current sitting US Senator John Cornyn is silent on the issues ranging from health care to IRS oversight. Our current US Senator is not bringing unity to our party. The generation behind us feels very strongly about the issue of decriminalization and I’m speaking about our current sitting US Senator does not seem to want to listen to the generation that’s coming up behind us – the generation that is going to be our next constituent base, those who really embrace the conservative ideas. It...