Things That Annoy Me: The Cassandra Hernandez-Brown Edition

If you've read my blog for any length of time you know that hypocrisy is one the many things that gets on my last nerve.

Especially with leaders and ideology.

So here is what annoys me about Cassandra Hernandez-Brown and Annie's List.

Annie's List is an organization that is dedicated to electing women leaders. They put a lot of money and resources behind women candidates. They very frequently conduct training sessions for future candidates and donate funds to their candidates.

Annie's List held one such training recently. As you can see, they tout City Rep Hernandez-Brown in this tweet:

So one would assume that such a candidate, when ascending to office, would be inclined to ya know, support other women leaders.

In the case of District 3 City Rep Cassandra Hernandez-Brown, you'd be wrong.

Remember a while back when the fact that a city with the civil rights record El Paso has still has a street named after Robert E. Lee came to light, there was an opportunity to change the name of the street.

I, at the behest of several Chicano leaders, approached Representative Hernandez-Brown to ask her to consider changing the name of the street from a traitor like Robert E. Lee, to a Chicana civil rights and labor leader, Dolores Huerta.

Well, Brown was never down for the brown on this one.

She was at no point, ever supportive of changing the street name to Dolores Huerta. Now the change would have meant a lot because it would have been changing the street name from a name we should collectively be ashamed even exists in El Paso, to the name of a civil rights leader and the first major Latina leader in the country.

It would have been a fairly easy thing to do. Normally when you change the name of a street its a big hassle because you have to get all the property owners on the street to agree to the name change and it costs a fair amount of money to change your address on all your accounts, ID's, records, stationary, advertising, etc.

But in the case of Robert E. Lee, there was only one address that actually fronted the road. It was a business. Track One Restaurant.

So three guesses who Hernandez-Brown sided with.

The fellow Chicana?

A fellow woman?

A fellow sister in the struggle?

Uh, negative Ghostider.

From the start, Brown was 100% in support of changing the name to what the business owner wanted the name changed to... Track One Road. (Could've been street, drive, blvd, etc I don't recall exactly).

It annoys me that she's touted as a "champion" when she sided with a business interest when given the opportunity to promote a woman who paved the way for Hernandez-Brown.