The Editor: The Texas LULAC Convention convened a meeting in Houston of the Texas General Assembly of LULAC this Sunday, June 8, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The elections did not get going until around 11:30 AM due to the normal registration and certification problems that have come to be associated with LULAC conventions in Texas and National.
There were no riots or near riots in the convention.
There were no uniformed law enforcement officers in view on the convention hall assembly in the Westin Oaks Gallaria Hotel. There was nothing there to intimidate the delegates, other than the usual, grouchy, mean faced, snap in your face Rosa Rosales, "Pinochet" Rudy Rosales, Jr., the always talkative Gabriel Rosales, the smile in your face, stab you in the back Luis Vera and the mean machine, Manuel Escobar. Oscar Moran was the Election Judge and Miguel Ortiz was the Legal Advisor on the floor of the convention.
The convention certified 463 delegates and 60 alternates. The convention in San Antonio in 2013 had 700 delegates.
Counting of the votes was conducted after simple stand-up counts were called. The votes for Elia Mendoza and Cynthia Valadez-Mata, Jr. broke out with Elia Mendoza taking the position of State Director with a margin of 100 votes. There was a contested race for Deputy Director with Marcelo Tafoya, Carlos Manuel and Al Maldonado. Tafoya took the election by a margin of 5 votes, barely squeaking through without a run-off. Marta Diaz, the Herbalife lady with the car that has a big Herbalife sign of her rear windshield and serving for the past year as Elia Mendoza's special assistant, won for Deputy Director for Women against the incumbent Agnes Rivera Garza. Rosa Hernandez won for Deputy Director for the Elderly against Ruben Alvarez. Christina Garcia won by acclamation for Deputy Director for Young Adults. Ana Olivares won over Pete Anzaldua for the position of Deputy Director for Youth. Mary Hogan won for State Treasurer. The site for the 2017 Convention will be Corpus Christi. The site for the 2015 Convention will be Waco and for 2016, Laredo.
Elia Mendoza brought in 4 buses with about a 68 % capacity, Most of the buses arrived Saturday mid-day. The delegates spend most of the time standing in line registering and going through credentials.
Alameel Loses
Alameel's money contributions to the Elia Mendoza campaign and later to the Roger Rocha campaign will not get him anywhere in his race against John Cornyn. The Editor has already declared Alameel the loser in that race for the US Senate from Texas. Any political dumb enough to finance one side of LULAC politics deserves to lose.
Roger Rocha Serves as Door Manager
Roger Rocha was demoted to opening and closing the main door to the convention assembly as people were going in and out of the assembly hall during the meeting of the General Assembly to go to the bath room and to attend to personal things. The Editor was seated just outside this door and could see Roger Rocha open and closer the door about 250 times. His performance was substandard. On several occasions Luis Vera had to order him to open the door to let back in some poor ladies who had stepped out of the assembly hall to go to the restroom.
The Herbalife Issue
A resolution that would allow the delegates to vote to have LULAC stay neutral on Herbalife was not permitted to be presented or debated by the assembly delegates. The decision to stop the vote on Herbalife was Rosa Rosales. She was afraid that a vote would send a message that she, Margaret Moran, Oscar Moran, Rosa Rosales and Brent Wilkes did not want to hear and make them look bad in the eyes of William Ackman.
All in all, the LULAC delegates at the convention would have voted on a LULAC Stay Neutral on Herbalife with a resounding fervor. The Editor heard from over 400 delegates and not one said anything negative about Herbalife.
The reason given to the delegates at the assembly as to why the Herbalife resolution could not be entertained by the Texas LULAC General Assembly was that the Herbalife issue was a national issue, not a state issue. The word from the presiding officer on resolutions was that the resolution would be forwarded to National. The reason was puro airy poopoo.
Everything that National is dealing with in LULAC is a matter for state LULAC, wherever that state might be. We all know the game in LULAC, resolutions are expressions as to how the delegates feel about issues that they are concerned about. All Texas LULAC'ers know full well that that a resolution from a council, a district or a state is nothing more than an expression of how the delegates, their assembly at whatever level, feels about particular issues. LULAC assemblies below National do not form LULAC policy. They only express a feeling, a non-binding opinion on an issue.
The Editor commented to a fellow LULAC'er that when it is taken to National in New York City, the presiding officer is going to say that the Herbalife matter cannot be addressed because it is a global matter that needs to be debated at the United Nations or at NATO. When it is taken there, they will probably say that the Herbalife issue is a galactic matter to be addressed by the Intergalatic Supreme Council.
Anyway, the Editor is pretty convinced that whenever LULAC eventually takes up the Herbalife issue that the LULAC General Assembly will tell LULAC that LULAC should remain neutral on Herbalife.
The Editor will post pictures of the Texas LULAC Convention next to this post.
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