A South Texas candidate sues his town for records he says will prove his opponent's corruption

RIO GRANDE CITY — A South Texas political candidate is suing his town over a bevy of public records requests, accusing officials of delaying the release of records he wants to prove his opponent is corrupt. Rio Grande City officials took the unusual step of announcing on social media earlier this month that the request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Ediel Barrera was causing a backlog and that the public may have to wait longer than usual for their documents. In a social media post, town officials called the volume of Barrera’s requests “unprecedented,” and described some of them as “vague or ambiguous.”