(Community Matters) Joaquin doesn’t represent a threat to Lloyd, he represents a win.
What was most notable was the enthusiasm, the attentiveness, the lack of fidgeting while Joaquin spoke – in the middle of 105F heat– in the courtyard of Juan in a Million. We’d (the host committee) expected 60 to 80 attendees. I tried but couldn’t really count the fish in a bowl, but it was somewhere near 200.
There’s a chemistry there; Joaquin is the round Mestizo face of so many to be represented, and he’s the multi-cultural American who represents us all. He’s the story grandmothers and parents tell their children – work hard in school, go to college, and you can be anyone, you can change the world. The vibe and the buzz filled the air. You don’t feel that often, though I remember it during the Obama campaign.
Despite periodic differences with Congressman Doggett, I’ve voted for, walked with and donated to him in elections for almost 30 years. Joaquin (and his brother the mayor of San Antonio) are what Lloyd, Peck Young, Ed Wendler and others organized and fought for all these years – the rights of minorities to be represented, to participate and to prosper. Joaquin doesn’t represent a threat to Lloyd, he represents a win.
Though I support legal challenges against the R gerrymandering that’ll leave Travis County without its own congressional district, Joaquin can make lemonade out of lemons. Let’s embrace a new Hispanic Congressional district with a new Hispanic leader, a man likely to help turn Texas blue by engaging and inspiring younger and Hispanic voters.
Lloyd is a fighter, never to be underestimated. With his war chest and his conservative fiscal credentials, I believe he can win CD-25 (his current district, where he currently resides and in which I live), maybe even CD-10 (Mike McCaul). Why not unleash the power of Lloyd and D supporters/organizers on keeping CD-25 or turning CD-10 Democratic?
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As a CD-10 resident, I say: come on up Lloyd! Poor Michael McCaul strikes me as politically tone deaf, but the guy has been able to win. Even in the big Democratic year of 2008 he won convincingly.
Fun Fact: District 10 was created after the last census and so there was no incumbent. I wasn’t living here then, but my understanding was that there were 10 candidates in the Republican primary (McCaul won) and zero in the Democratic primary! How weak is the Democratic Party in Texas that they can’t find even one candidate to run for a seat with no incumbent?