Texans Reading a Lot Into Castro Keynote
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Call them idealistic, but the Texas delegates in town for this week’s Democratic National Convention are reading a lot into the selection of San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to give Tuesday night’s keynote address.
Sure, it means a great deal for Castro’s own political aspirations: The Democratic Party's rising star is already one of the nation’s youngest mayors, a Stanford- and Harvard-educated 37-year-old Latino with an equally ambitious identical twin. Castro sat next to first lady Michelle Obama at the 2012 State of the Union address, another sign he was being ...
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Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
the times, they are a-changing
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Delusional.
Chris Bazan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The demographics are a changing.
christopher tingus
Empty rhetoric as this one term promised Presoidency if unemployment Not below 8% and to our suprise, this " WH riddled Goldman Sachs" which boast four years later, 8.3% unemployment...a 2008 $10.6 trillion budget deficit now exponential at $16 trillion+ in budget deficit this week and the avwerage US income in 2008 at nearly $55k and today, $50k...and the empty rhetoric and this slogan of the DNC led by "Smug-smiled Pelosi and Mr. Barney, Hank Paulsen et al" who can't still seem to find the first $750 billion in stimulus monies lost?
I am a Massachusetts fella stuck in the DNC crap here among all of Uncle teddy's fellas and Uncle Johnnie's (Kerry) cronies and I can bet that the proud and long standing Texas flag will be ousting this Chicago city slicker and his Rev Wright from the pulpit to the wolves on election day as We, the independent voters, will march with the Texas flag in hand and rid ourselves of this Chicago-Hollywood-Washington Charade" - Even Clinton called him a Chicago thug!
chris.tingus@gmail.com
God Bless America! God Bless Texas!