Fiery San Antonio mayor testifies before House Judiciary Subcommittee. Washington,D.C., March 6. Former representative and Mayor of San Antonio, Maury Maverick was back in familiar territory today when he appeared before a House Judiciary Committee to urge abolishment of the poll tax in elections for federal office. He told the committee "The poll tax makes The South a sort of piece-meal fractional democracy," 3-6-40