From: Charlie Urbina-Jones
To: UrbinaJonesForTexas@yahoo.com
Subject: Our Future
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:29:23
To the SDEC Members & Texas Democratic Leadership:
RE: Our Future
Since November I have been traveling throughout Texas listening to the People of our Party. I have heard the frustration, anger and disappointment but I have also heard the hope. For too long our party has fought amongst itself, ignored the grassroots and cherry picked who we support. This is not the Democratic Way!
I want to offer the People and the Party another possibility. A chance at turning Texas Blue, at restoring our Party and our government back to the People. I've heard the repeated call for a "Democratic Party" to be created in Texas but the truth is we have one and what we need is an internal revolution to bring us back to our roots.
I asked each Democrat I met on my travels "what do you want the Party to be, what do you want the Party to do" and each time I was answered with silence. Apparently they'd never been asked that question before and that's a scary thought. When did we stop listening to our most important asset? The People are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party and I feel that until we get back to this, we may be lost.
Our website will be up next week (UrbinaJonesForTexas.com), I say our because this site belongs as much to the People of this party as it does to me. If you're like me you're not just in search of a vision, for the Texas Democratic Party, but you want a plan of action to go with it. This is what the website is about; this is what our campaign is about and this is what the TDP needs: the vision of its People with a plan to implement your vision throughout Texas. A list of supporters from all over Texas will be on the site, if you would like to become a supporter please email or call me. I want you to know me and have the opportunity to personally ask the questions.
I've attached what I call the Texas Agenda, a collection of insight and ideas from Democrats all over Texas. Email me, call me... because I want to hear from You! And I want to know: WHAT DO YOU WANT THE PARTY TO BECOME!
In the spirit of Justice, Equality & Freedom-
Charlie
The attached Texas Agenda was an empty file in the version that I received. I'll try to get ahold of a working version and post that tomorrow.
