The Castration of the El Paso Democratic Party - Observations from the Field

The local El Paso Democratic Party has been castrated. I say that as a loyal member of the El Paso Democratic Party.

Lets just rip the band-aide off here. We are completely ineffective. We have lost our connection to the people and that happened because the people stopped being the priority and power started being the focus. The only real power comes from the people.

The local Democratic Party is incapable of getting anyone elected. We are completely ineffective on that front.

Endorsements from the Democratic Party mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The party itself doesn't work. A few of the clubs do, but the party itself is a mess.

A hot mess.

And the hope for a new direction in the Party was Butch Maya. And somehow Maya lost. Rick Melendrez will want to take credit for guerilla campaigning but lets be honest, he won because of his name. Butch had a long name that sounded white on the ballot.

Melendrez is not liked within the party. Actually, that is putting it lightly. He is despised within the Party. He has made no effort to build relationships with anyone within the Party either.

So we, as Democrats have a choice. We can be part of the problem or part of the solution. We can either have a dysfunctional relationship with the new chair or we can have a productive relationship.

I think that depends greatly on the actions of the new chair.

But one thing is for sure, we are completely ineffective and dysfunctional right now. I don't like that and I want that to be fixed.

Candidates don't need us to win elections. The candidates that the party has gotten behind have pretty much all lost.

We have no power. We have no credibility.

Its like the end of a bad relationship. Its going to suck really bad before things get better.

This is what the bottom looks like.