State Rep Quintanilla Supportive of Cesar Chavez Day Elimination at UTEP

Last Saturday State Rep Chente Quintanilla spoke at the Press Club Meeting and took questions from the audience.

From The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia

Quintanilla fielded questions on a range of issues dealing with education, voter identification, the budget, and gambling from members of the audience.

I took the opportunity to ask a couple questions myself and another person's question about UTEP reminded me to ask his position on the elimination of Cesar Chavez Day as a holiday at UTEP.

As you will hear in the recording, I was critical of the fact that not a single elected Latino leader issued any comment on the move by UTEP.

Frankly I was expecting him to against their move. I was shocked to hear what I heard next. Before any of you say that his answer was taken out of context or anything like that, I posted the entire question and his entire answer on the matter.

Here is the audio:



In another surprising move on the part of the long time Democratic State Representative, Quintanilla is also sponsoring a bill that would require a woman to see a sonogram and for her to hear the heartbeat before an abortion.

I'm a pro-Life Democrat, but Quintanilla's sponsorship of the bill will be controversial in the Democratic Party. I think a person should always choose life, but I don't think its appropriate for the state to be involved in reproduction. Much less do I believe that the state should be able to impose further requirements on a woman.

Here is a link showing Quintanilla as a Joint Author.

I know I'm not the only person in the party that is disappointed with Representative Quintanilla.

So much for "Chente por la gente"...