Another Paso del Norte Controversy Brewing...
Frankly I am unable to wrap my head around why so many elected officials want to be members of the Paso Del Norte Tejano Democrats at this point.
I'd expect them to start distancing themselves as long as Blanche Darley is their chair.
The latest controversy is once again over email. Apparently an email went out from Chairwoman Blanche Darley to membership announcing the next meeting. Normally thats not a big deal, but Darley included a line about working "to assure that El Paso will once again carry the Straight Democratic Ticket..." and then she went on to mention the re-election of a candidate.
Two problems with the statement. #1 she mentions re-election of a local candidate that has a primary challenger. In a contested race I'm sure its against the bylaws of even the Tejano Democrats to endorse a candidate before the endorsement process has taken place. Which is made even funnier by the fact that later in the email Darley mentions the fact that the 2nd Vice Chair, Raul Rodriguez is in the process of planning the endorsement meeting in JANUARY. So the Darley endorsement, which I doubt the candidate even wants, is about 3 months premature.
The other problem with the statement is that it makes no mention of the President. As a Democratic Auxillery, she is obliged to support the President. Get over it, Hillary lost and there are no more superdelegates to wait around for. She made no reference to the President despite the fact that he is a) a Democrat, and b) unopposed in the primary.
This underscores something several members of the Tejano Democrats have expressed to me. They have a distrust of Blanche Darley as the chair and believe she will not be fair.
Perhaps sensing that there might be issues with fairness in the club, Don Williams sent an peremptory email to the Chair and leadership of the organization notifying them that he was having a fundraiser the same evening as a the regular monthly meeting. He had attempted to get it done on a different night, but due to scheduling conflicts with the venue, the only date available happened to be the same night as the meeting.
Here is an excerpt from the email:
Generally requests of this nature are routinely sent out to membership. Lets see if this one gets sent out...my bet is that it won't be...
I'd expect them to start distancing themselves as long as Blanche Darley is their chair.
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| From The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia |
Two problems with the statement. #1 she mentions re-election of a local candidate that has a primary challenger. In a contested race I'm sure its against the bylaws of even the Tejano Democrats to endorse a candidate before the endorsement process has taken place. Which is made even funnier by the fact that later in the email Darley mentions the fact that the 2nd Vice Chair, Raul Rodriguez is in the process of planning the endorsement meeting in JANUARY. So the Darley endorsement, which I doubt the candidate even wants, is about 3 months premature.
The other problem with the statement is that it makes no mention of the President. As a Democratic Auxillery, she is obliged to support the President. Get over it, Hillary lost and there are no more superdelegates to wait around for. She made no reference to the President despite the fact that he is a) a Democrat, and b) unopposed in the primary.
This underscores something several members of the Tejano Democrats have expressed to me. They have a distrust of Blanche Darley as the chair and believe she will not be fair.
Perhaps sensing that there might be issues with fairness in the club, Don Williams sent an peremptory email to the Chair and leadership of the organization notifying them that he was having a fundraiser the same evening as a the regular monthly meeting. He had attempted to get it done on a different night, but due to scheduling conflicts with the venue, the only date available happened to be the same night as the meeting.
Here is an excerpt from the email:
Below is a copy of page 2 of my proposal from the DoubleTree concerning my Campaign Fundraiser. I had three dates in the last week of October to hold the event. My 3 choices were Wednesday, October 26, Thursday, October 27 & Tuesday, October 25, in that order. I requested them in that order as not to conflict with the PDN Tejano Meeting. Unfortunately, the only date that was available was Tuesday. While I do not owe you an explanation I do believe it is fitting to clarify and ward off any possible innuendo or misunderstandings.
In an effort to accommodate any of your members who want to attend the fundraiser, may I suggest that you start your meeting at 6:30pm instead of 6:00pm so that full participation can be had by both functions.
In the meantime, as a member of the Tejanos, I request that you send the notice of my Fundraiser to the Tejano Membership list as you did for Yvonne Rodriguez (the candidate). Thank you for your kind consideration.
NOTICE TO SAVE THE DATE. A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT WILL FOLLOW
CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT AND FUNDRAISER FOR
DONALD L. "DON" WILLIAMS
FOR
388TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
5:30PM- 7:30PM
DOUBLE TREE HOTEL, SKY LOUNGE, 17TH FLOOR
600 N. EL PASO
EL PASO, TEXAS 79901
Contributions/Donations Welcomed
Generally requests of this nature are routinely sent out to membership. Lets see if this one gets sent out...my bet is that it won't be...
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