Joaquin Castro Charges Up Texas Delegates at DNC
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A day and a half after San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro’s rousing keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, his congressional hopeful brother, Joaquin Castro, made an unscheduled appearance before the Texas delegation.
Despite the twin brothers’ newfound national attention — they have been the darlings of the cable news circuit in the last 48 hours — Joaquin said he and Julián are committed to Texas, and to turning it blue.
“Julián and I are very committed to doing everything we can to make sure in the next several years we can elect a Democratic ...
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Kay Wilkinson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Love those Texas Castro Twins! FORWARD!
Rudy Gonzales
There will be a significant difference to choose from this November on the national level. When this emerging Socio-Politio-Economic power get informed of the Texas Legislature's actions over the past years, there could be significant changes in Texas politics.
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro gave a stirring address at the DNC and stirred up the base in Texas. The mayors' comment to start a business is appropriate in that business owners can expense and deduct costs the average person cannot and have some utility of assets. Mitt Romney truly does not know how good he had it growing up when he said to borrow the money to start the business.
The obstacles in the Castro brothers path upward in politics is well known in the red state of Texas. It's even more troubling when TEA party types in Texas make it their expressed actions to use foreign sounding sir-names in derogatory manners much like they used president Obama's full name: Barack Hussein Obama. The clear inference is foreign names are not white names or people.
The bottom line is demographics are a changing, and the past actions of the TEA-Libertarian-Republican-GOP-Evangelical fringe controlled Texas Legislature to scuttle voter choices is out. A panel of federal judges unanimously struck down a voter-ID law passed by the legislature in March 2011, arguing that it would disproportionately harm African-American and Latino voters. Both decisions hinged on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires certain states with a history of racial discrimination in voting — including Texas — to prove that any changes in their voting laws or procedures do not hamper the voting rights of minorities.
Texas lawmakers drew some districts that looked like Latino majority districts on paper — but removed Latinos who voted regularly and replaced them with Latinos who were unlikely to vote.
Texas lawmakers widened the gap between the proportion of the population that is Latino and African Americans and the proportion of districts that are minority-controlled.
The Texas Legislature removed economic centers and district offices from African-American and Latino districts, while giving white Republicans perks.
The Texas Legislature passed a voter-ID law with requirements that would make it disproportionately difficult for African Americans and Latinos to vote.
The Texas Legislature acted to d ivide and conquer: Texas "cracked" minority voters out of one district into three to offset and counter the minority vote from being proportional to the Texas population.
Liz Theiss
With separatist leaders like this Texas will be a third-world hellhole in no time.
Betty DuBose Hamilton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Delightful sincere smiles!
Papa Ray
Yea lets just say it. Texans are racists including much of the Mexicans that have been here for years. We just don't want millions of illegals in Texas. Send them all home we say. If that makes us racists well that is your definition, not ours. Let their home countries take care of them if they want to. But not Texas or the USA.
We are not responsible for them, nor do we want to be. If they do it legally then they can dance through, work through the rules and regulations and if they work hard enough they might even earn their citizenship. But not any other way!
And we damn sure don't want them to vote if they are illegals. For anybody.
Blacks? blacks and other "minorities" in Texas are responsible for their own welfare. It should not be incumbent on anyone else who works in Texas to take care of them.
The illegals should be deported and made to go through the rules and regulations to be able to come to the USA and work. Overstaying Visa's is illegal.
The entitlement mentality of Obama and the democrats is going to be curtailed, cut off at the pass and anyone who wants to live in Texas and can work is going to have to do just that - work and take personal responsibility for themselves and their family.
Texas will always be a RED state.
Papa Ray