SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio ethics review board ruled on the ethics complaint filed against Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones this summer.

The board says there’s not enough evidence to find her guilty after she pushed for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to come to San Antonio.

The board spent more than 30 minutes in executive session before coming back with their decision. Bexar County Republican Vice Chair Kyle Sinclair filed the complaint on July 16 and sat in the audience as the board voted.

He said he respects their decision.

“I vote that there is not a preponderance of evidence that supports the finding that Mayor Jones violated section 2-49 of the San Antonio Ethics Code,” one board member motioned.

Sinclair sat unphased while listening to the San Antonio ethics review board vote in favor of Mayor Jones.

“I get it. I mean, I understand. I’m not mad,” he said shortly after the vote. “I mean, my job was to bring attention to and awareness to what she should have done.”

Sinclair filed the complaint saying Jones violated the ethics code by pushing for the 2028 democratic national convention to come to San Antonio. He asked that she extend the same invitation to the 2032 Republican National Convention (RNC).

“She’s a mayor for both,” Sinclair said. “44% of the vote here in San Antonio voted for President Trump and voted republican, and she won the mayor right after that… She should have done both.”

Mayor Jones wasn’t at the meeting. Frank Garza was there to represent her. He called the complaint frivolous and harassment.

“It’s not that she wrote the letter on city stationary. It’s that he disagreed as to who she wrote it to,” Garza said. “If it’s a violation of the ethics code to write a letter to the Democratic National Committee, would it not be a violation that she write to the Republican National Committee?”

Sinclair disagreed with the harassment claims — saying he wants to hold the mayor accountable.

“What it is, is calling the mayor out for her actions, and I will continue to do that,” he said. “She’s a public servant, and she’s also my mayor. There’s been no harassment of her by calling her out for some actions. I’ll do that all day long.”

Mayor Jones responded to the board’s decision with a statement. She stood by her actions saying they were reviewed by the city attorney and were in line with legal and ethical standards.

She called the complaint “politically motivated” saying it “lacked merit.”

Sinclair said he has not spoken to Mayor Jones since the start of all of this. He resigned as Bexar County GOP Vice Chair on October 1.

He now has his sights on winning the congressional seat for District 21.