2 of Top 3 El Paso Democrats Call for Pickett's Removal
I am actually pretty proud of the El Paso County Democratic Chair Danny Anchondo and State Democratic Executive Committee Woman Yolanda Clay for taking State Rep Joe Pickett to task for a really bad vote he made on Voter ID.
I'm not sure whats up with the the delegation this year but for some reason Pickett and Quintanilla keep voting like Republicans and as a Democrat, its pretty frustrating.
Kudos to them.
However, I find their critique pretty interesting for another reason. I sent an email to the two of them, and the State Democratic Executive Committee Man, Don Williams, asking them to publically call for the removal of the Bexar County Democratic Chair for comments he made about the gay community.
I have received no response from Anchondo or Clay. I am hoping the the various presidents/chairs of the local Democratic Party clubs take the initiative and write letters of their own.
But since Anchondo and Clay haven't responded, I am inclined to think its because they don't want to publically call for the removal of another Democrat.
Unless perhaps there is an opportunity for them?
Why else would they publically comment to the extent that they did in this El Paso Times piece on Pickett?
Personally, I can't believe that Pickett voted with the Republicans on this issue and I find his quote completely out of touch when he says that people in El Paso and in his district don't think its a big deal.
What pisses me off the most about the vote is that the Republicans didn't need it. I would still be pissed, but if his vote for that bill was some sort of trade-off for something really big and beneficial for El Paso, then I would understand a little better.
If Anchondo and Clay were consistent in their critique, I think I'd be really behind this critique, but because they aren't, I feel it reasonable to question their motives.
Where the hell was this critique when it came to the Sonogram Bill? They didn't have a single thing to say about Quintanilla, and he's so conservative that there are times that I think he's almost a DINO (Democrat in name only).
Notice how Don Williams isn't quoted? I've noticed, and I'm not the only one by the way, that he is left out of the mix with those two. Instead of the County Chair and the SDEC's working together, its almost as though its Anchondo and Clay work together and Williams is the step child. (I'll explain my theory on that one in the next blog item).
This quote from Clay was particularly interesting to me. "We have a lot of qualified Democrats in that particular district,".
Like who? No names jump up at me when I think of someone who would have the ability to take on someone like Pickett, not without a lot of help anyway. I guess its not impossible, considering the TLR stepped in a backrolled a campaing recently that successfully ousted a long-time State Rep in a seemingly safe seat.
Pickett's district makes up a good part of the northeast and parts of east El Paso. If I'm not mistaken, I think Clay and/or her daughter live in the Northeast. Maybe that's who she was referring to when she said "there are a lot of qualified Democrats in that particular district".
I'm not sure whats up with the the delegation this year but for some reason Pickett and Quintanilla keep voting like Republicans and as a Democrat, its pretty frustrating.
Kudos to them.
However, I find their critique pretty interesting for another reason. I sent an email to the two of them, and the State Democratic Executive Committee Man, Don Williams, asking them to publically call for the removal of the Bexar County Democratic Chair for comments he made about the gay community.
I have received no response from Anchondo or Clay. I am hoping the the various presidents/chairs of the local Democratic Party clubs take the initiative and write letters of their own.
But since Anchondo and Clay haven't responded, I am inclined to think its because they don't want to publically call for the removal of another Democrat.
Unless perhaps there is an opportunity for them?
Why else would they publically comment to the extent that they did in this El Paso Times piece on Pickett?
Personally, I can't believe that Pickett voted with the Republicans on this issue and I find his quote completely out of touch when he says that people in El Paso and in his district don't think its a big deal.
What pisses me off the most about the vote is that the Republicans didn't need it. I would still be pissed, but if his vote for that bill was some sort of trade-off for something really big and beneficial for El Paso, then I would understand a little better.
If Anchondo and Clay were consistent in their critique, I think I'd be really behind this critique, but because they aren't, I feel it reasonable to question their motives.
Where the hell was this critique when it came to the Sonogram Bill? They didn't have a single thing to say about Quintanilla, and he's so conservative that there are times that I think he's almost a DINO (Democrat in name only).
Notice how Don Williams isn't quoted? I've noticed, and I'm not the only one by the way, that he is left out of the mix with those two. Instead of the County Chair and the SDEC's working together, its almost as though its Anchondo and Clay work together and Williams is the step child. (I'll explain my theory on that one in the next blog item).
This quote from Clay was particularly interesting to me. "We have a lot of qualified Democrats in that particular district,".
Like who? No names jump up at me when I think of someone who would have the ability to take on someone like Pickett, not without a lot of help anyway. I guess its not impossible, considering the TLR stepped in a backrolled a campaing recently that successfully ousted a long-time State Rep in a seemingly safe seat.
Pickett's district makes up a good part of the northeast and parts of east El Paso. If I'm not mistaken, I think Clay and/or her daughter live in the Northeast. Maybe that's who she was referring to when she said "there are a lot of qualified Democrats in that particular district".
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