Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is reporting that LULAC has filed suit against the TDP over the primacaucus delegate selection procedure.
The link at Marshall's site goes directly to the El Paso Times story about the suit. No details.
Anyone know anything more?
Update from Phillip
Considering how focused the TDP has been on changing the rules going forward -- and eager and willing to address these changes at the upcoming convention -- it's a shame LULAC is doing this. We could have been all coming together right now, and instead, we get a lawsuit. And based on the article below the fold, the lawsuit is just a heavy hammer being thrown around to make sure LULAC gets their chips at the bargaining table counted.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: as an Hispanic, I sure felt like my vote was counted.
(This would be an appropriate step in getting the El Paso SD-29 delegation properly adjusted to the right delegate allocation and correct the incorrect at-large distribution there. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
Obama supporter, Black Democrats of El Paso President and former Family Court Judge Don Williams and El Paso County Democratic Party Chair Danny Anchondo were guests on a local talk radio program Saturday morning to discuss the March 29 convention in SD29, during which Williams announced he intended to officially challenge the seating of the El Paso delegation to the State Democratic Party Convention.
Mr. Williams opened his remarks by stating that he is first and foremost a Democrat, that he would vote for the Democratic candidate in November, and that this dispute is, largely, a "family" dispute. As with any family that has disputes, we Democrats are, first and foremost, a family that unites in common purpose.
But he went on to say that as a 50-some odd old black man, he had some serious issues with oppression, and he characterized what went on at the Senate district caucus as "oppression."
He then stated he had filed and intended to pursue, an official challenge to the El Paso delegation with the Texas Democratic party. He gave Chairman Anchondo and the radio host a copy.
(There are more levee problems than just New Orleans. Seems to be an epidemic! - promoted by John McClelland)
El Paso's daily newspaper, The El Paso Times, and a weekly business publication, El Paso, Inc. have each had cover stories in the past week about the Rio Grande levee system in El Paso County being in such bad shape, it would no longer be included in newly proposed FEMA flood plain maps of our area.
The prospect that many of the close to half-million residents of Texas' fifth largest city...a city located in the Northern Chihuahua DESERT...a city that only gets 13 inches annual rainfall per year (and half of that in August), may soon have to purchase federal flood insurance is, to say the least, huge.
