Democratic Convention & SDEC Races
The Texas Democratic Party will have its convention in the next few days in Fort Worth. Should be interesting this year because of how Trump has energized the Party.
Conventions are mostly fun, you get a chance to see some cool swag from across the state. I designed a couple of t-shirts that the Party is going to sell.
We'll talk about platform and get into a bunch of unnecessary arguments with one another because we are Democrats and that is what we do.
But there is one kind of important piece of business that gets done and that is select the SDEC Committeeman and Committeewoman positions. These are mostly popularity contests.
Former City Representative and Chairman of the Tejano Democrats Eddie Holguin will be facing a candidate from the NE Democrats who's name escapes me and a guy named E. Anthony Martinez. After spending years in the local Democratic Party, I have never heard of Mr. Martinez. He sent out an email to the delegates and it had a video. After watching the video, I don't think I've ever actually seen him at a Democratic Party event that I can recall in the last 10 years.
His email was kind of rambling about how he didn't think he was treated very nicely by TDP in a phone call. That was pretty much the entire premise of the email.
Holguin is a former elected official. He's the Chair of the flagship party auxiliary, and he and Democratic Party Chairwoman Iliana Holguin have been the standard bearers for the Party locally. He's transitioned from one of the youngest elected officials in town and matured into somewhat of a party elder now. You never heard of drama at Tejano Democrats meetings now because of his leadership. Its hard to see how the other two candidates eek out much support. But I'm sure I'll speak with both of them over the next couple of days and get to know them better and report back.
The SDEC Committeewoman race is a little different. It pits two well-known Party activists against one another - Sissy Byrd, Chair of the Black El Paso Democrats and Isela Castañon-Williams, who is an officer in the Tejano Democrats. Both ladies have paid their dues and spent their time working for the Party.
More convention stuff in the next few days.
Conventions are mostly fun, you get a chance to see some cool swag from across the state. I designed a couple of t-shirts that the Party is going to sell.
We'll talk about platform and get into a bunch of unnecessary arguments with one another because we are Democrats and that is what we do.
But there is one kind of important piece of business that gets done and that is select the SDEC Committeeman and Committeewoman positions. These are mostly popularity contests.
Former City Representative and Chairman of the Tejano Democrats Eddie Holguin will be facing a candidate from the NE Democrats who's name escapes me and a guy named E. Anthony Martinez. After spending years in the local Democratic Party, I have never heard of Mr. Martinez. He sent out an email to the delegates and it had a video. After watching the video, I don't think I've ever actually seen him at a Democratic Party event that I can recall in the last 10 years.
His email was kind of rambling about how he didn't think he was treated very nicely by TDP in a phone call. That was pretty much the entire premise of the email.
Holguin is a former elected official. He's the Chair of the flagship party auxiliary, and he and Democratic Party Chairwoman Iliana Holguin have been the standard bearers for the Party locally. He's transitioned from one of the youngest elected officials in town and matured into somewhat of a party elder now. You never heard of drama at Tejano Democrats meetings now because of his leadership. Its hard to see how the other two candidates eek out much support. But I'm sure I'll speak with both of them over the next couple of days and get to know them better and report back.
The SDEC Committeewoman race is a little different. It pits two well-known Party activists against one another - Sissy Byrd, Chair of the Black El Paso Democrats and Isela Castañon-Williams, who is an officer in the Tejano Democrats. Both ladies have paid their dues and spent their time working for the Party.
More convention stuff in the next few days.
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