On Saturday March 22, all five Senate Districts in Dallas County held conventions to choose delegates to the State Convention here in Dallas in June. Numerous exciting speakers appeared, including Democratic candidate for Governor Wendy Davis, shown above with some of our DCDP office interns. You can find more pictures at the DCDP's own Facebook and Twitter pages.

Thank you to all of the over 68,000 Dallas County Democrats who voted in this year's primary. You helped choose the candidates (for the general election or for the runoff) to represent our Democratic values to the world.

Special thanks to the two dozen Early Voting Judges and dozens more Early Voting clerks who helped over 32,000 of us cast ballots; to the over three hundred Election Day Judges and many hundreds more clerks who toiled on March 4 to help another 33,000; to our County Commissioners Judge Clay Jenkins, Dr. Theresa Daniel, John Wiley Price, and Dr. Elba Garcia and their staffs (especially Dapheny Fain, Brooks Love, and Sally White) for help with voting locations and finding election judges; to Jean Ball and all those members of the Advisory Council who helped with judges; to Kris Farrell for helping train them and pinning down locations; to Edwards and Patterson Signs of Dallas for quickly producing signs (with union bugs!) showing last-minute changes to voting locations; to the several people "behind the scenes" out of the public eye, like the members of the Early Voting Ballot Board; and especially to ED Taylor Holden who walked into a hornet's nest and served as a lightning rod so that the staff could be free to work. As always, this election could not have been held without a team effort from all of these people and more.

Finally, thank you very much to all of the candidates -- winners and losers -- and their families, friends, supporters, staffers, and campaign advisors who ran all those campaigns, and to the various clubs, organizations, unions and interest groups who held forums, made endorsements, and actively worked for their choices. This is what democracy is all about: we find out from elections what the people really want (or learn that we need to better inform them next time!) This is not just how we manage to live together without bashing each other over the head. This is how we take each others' hands and march forward into a better future for us all. Thank you again.

From the Dallas Observer: Mayor Mike Rawlings Walked Out of a Meeting Last Night on the Dallas ISD Takeover Push

From the Dallas AFL-CIO Council: Privatization of Schools Causes Backlash (includes the TDP Resolution saying "the Texas Democratic Party stands in opposition to the "home-rule district charter" proposal now being promoted in Dallas ISD and rejects its underlying agenda of privatization of control over public schools and destruction of democratic school governance.")

On Monday March 24 the 11th Annual "Eddie Bernice Johnson Math and Science Lecture Series" was held at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center in Dallas, Texas.  This lecture series was started by the University of Texas at Dallas in an effort to expose Dallas-area high school students to career opportunities, and accomplished professionals in the disciplines of math and science. Congresswoman Johnson told more than 300 students in attendance "The most important aspect in being globally competitive is the development of young scientists. You have the opportunity to be our next generation of global leaders."
(Shown above: Dr. Bruce Gnade, Vice-President for Research and Chair in Microelectronics at UT Dallas; Congresswoman Johnson; keynote speaker Dr. Roosevelt Johnson, Deputy Associate Administrator for Education at NASA; and Tiffany Huitt, Principal of  the School of Science and Engineering at Townview Magnet Center.)

In Texas candidates must get a majority of the votes in the primary or the top two have to be in a runoff. This year that will be on May 27. Early voting will be one week only, Monday May 19 to Friday May 23. These will be the runoffs we will see in Dallas County:

US Senator: David M. Alameel and Kesha Rogers

Commissioner of Agriculture: Jim Hogan and Richard "Kinky" Friedman

State Board of Education, Dist 13: Erika Beltran and Andrea Hilburn

State Representative, Dist 105: Susan Motley and Terry Meza

Judge, Co Criminal Court No. 5: Lisa Green and Etta J. Mullin

District Clerk: Tarsha Hardy and Felicia Pitre

County Treasurer: Pauline Medrano and Bennie Elnora Brown

JP, Pct No. 4, Pl 1: Norris 'Stretch' Rideaux and Mary Abeyta

JP, Pct No. 4, Pl 2: Katy Hubener and Fred Jackson

JP, Pct No. 5, Pl 1: Sara Martinez and Melissa J. Bellan

Constable, Pct No. 5: Beth Villarreal and Michael Orozco

You can find links to the websites and the contact information for these candidates at our primary candidate filings page. Their ballot order for the runoff has been added after their names. NOTE: That list does not show websites, Facebooks, or other contact information for some of these because they have none or have not given them to us. But for US Senate, see the next article about Kesha Rogers (her opponent, David Alameel, does have his own site). For Agriculture Commissioner, Jim Hogan has no sites because he has not raised or spent any money, and says he will continue not doing so if he wins the runoff, according to this article (his opponent, Richard "Kinky" Friedman, does have his own site). For State Board of Education, Andrea Hilburn has no sites but answered questions at this page (her opponent, Erika Beltran, has her own site). For County Criminal Court 5, Etta Mullin has no sites but her bio was posted at this page (her opponent, Lisa Green, also has a page there, besides her own site). For Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4, Place 2, Fred Jackson has no sites (his opponent, Katy Hubener, does have her own site).

One candidate in the runoff for US Senator is Kesha Rogers, a follower of convicted felon Lyndon LaRouche. Our Texas Democratic Party State Chair Gilberto Hinojosa has sent out this notice:

"Kesha Rogers is one of the candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senator in the Democratic primary -- but do not be fooled. Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.

Ms. Rogers is part of the "LaRouche Movement," which has a history of violent rhetoric. The focus of her campaign is impeaching President Obama. Rogers has even paraded around Texas with a poster of the President with a Hitler mustache.

Rogers believes that the U.S. economy is secretly controlled by London financial institutions and she has advocated for colonizing Mars.  That's not what real Democrats stand for.

The Texas Democratic Party does not support the candidacy of Kesha Rogers or anyone that aligns themselves with the LaRouche Movement. Our State Democratic Executive Committee even issued a resolution against her campaign. Do not vote for Kesha Rogers in the primary. Rogers' candidacy is a insult to our Party, our President, our state, our Democratic values, and to all the work you are doing to move our state forward. Do not vote for Kesha Rogers.

All my best --Gilberto Hinojosa" 

 

Read the Texas Democratic Party's State Executive Committee Resolution on Kesha Rogers as a pdf at this page.

You can see a photo of one of her US Senate campaign posters with her call for impeaching Obama and her picture of him with a Hitler moustache here.

See links to more and a video of her attacks on Obama here.

(For the latest updates on local events, and links to more info about these, check out the DallasDemocrats on Facebook and Twitter, and the DCDP website Calendar. To add an event or make a change or correction, contact the party office or email the editor: BillHowellDCDP AT Yahoo.com.)

Contact:

Dallas County Democratic Party
4209 Parry Avenue, Dallas TX 75223
Phone: 214-821-8331     Fax: 214-821-0995
Website:  www.dallasdemocrats.org
Facebook:  www.facebook.com/DallasDemocrats
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