The Editor: Roman Palomares
started the first year of a potential 4 year stay as the National President of
LULAC in a very bad way. He took on a fight that erupted during his
predecessor's second to last year as LULAC National President, a fight in which
Garcia and Juan Proano, the soon to be appointed CEO of LULAC, refused to allow
the new National LULAC Treasurer, Summer Gonzales access to LULAC financial accounts. A reading of email exchanges over the past two years
reveals that the dispute did not originate with Palomares. The problem with
Roman Palomares is that he is a weak leader for LULAC. He has allowed the
outgoing National President and the new CEO to embroil him is a LULAC piss fight.
In the 50 years that the Editor
has followed LULAC, LULAC has not kicked out a singular Vice President.
Yes, LULAC had major issues
with its National Presidents in the late 1980's-early 1990's, but they were simply ended a candidacy, not an ouster. We had the ouster of Texas leadership in
2010-2012. We also had the ousters in 2022 led by the former LULAC President to
save the League.
But ousting a single Vice
President on stupid allegations for creating a video for the purpose of passing
the video out to the press was a Juan Proano creation and Roman Palomares fell
for the story.
Roman Palomares instructed Juan
Proano to instruct Lisa Smith, the LULAC CFO to not secure transportation
reservations and lodging or funds for those purposes as the National Treasurer
was preparing to attend the LULAC Board meeting scheduled for October 11-12,
2024. The National Treasurer resided in Washinton state and transportation and
lodging is normally provided by LULAC through the facilities of the national
LULAC staff office. For the National Treasure, the reservations were made by
national and then cancelled.
In preparation for the Board
meeting, the National Treasurer had prepared the video report 3 days before the
scheduled date and also prepared a written report for presentation to the
Board.
The video is retrievable via an
encrypted code created by the National Treasurer.
It's not the sign of an
effective LULAC National President to start out the first year in his new reign
in office by picking a fight with a National Treasurer who won her election to
office with a vote of 209 to 207.
The problem, you got 209 pissed off LULAC'ers who will remember this sham in LBCA in '25.
The victory was significant
because the opposition came from a surprise candidate put up by the LULAC cabal
in Dallas, who decided to beat Summer Gonzales in Las Vegas.
Could not beat her in Las Vegas
in a legitimate election fight, they conjured this hokus pokus sham of
accusations that were used to oust a duly elected National Treasurer.
Roman Palomares seems to have gotten into the LULAC bullring without his cape, without his sword and without his picadores.
Not a pretty picture.
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