LULAC 102 is looking for Volunteers that would be interested in registering

people to vote. If you would like to volunteer contact Ivan Garcia via email at
_igarcia@dgley.com_ (mailto:igarcia@dgley.com) or by phone at (214) 543-1073

About Chorizo & Menudo

For over a decade the Chorizo and Menudo community breakfasts has been hosted by
LULAC Chapter 102 every first Saturday of each month in Dallas.
This breakfast is free and open to the public.

This same concept is extended to the community in Fort Worth, every second
Saturday of each month.

Past guests include elected officials and community leaders who have covered
major issues facing Hispanics in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Please forward this invite to your email list.

For additional information you may contact Domingo Garcia at 214-941-8300 Or

garciadtx@aol.com_ (mailto:garciadtx@aol.com)

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Sincerely,

Domingo A. Garcia

President,
LULAC Council 102

Acerca de Chorizo & Menudo

Por ms de una dcada, el desayuno de Chorizo y Menudo se ha llevado a
cabo el primer sbado de cada mes en Dallas. Este evento, presentado por el
Concilio 102 de LULAC, es gratuito para nustra comunidad y el pblico en
general.

Este mismo concepto se ha extendido a Fort Worth, llevndolo a cabo cada
segundo sbado del mes. Nuestros previos invitados incluyen oficiales
electos y lderes comunitarios, quienes han dado discurso sobre los temas que
afectan a nuestra comunidad.

Por favor pase esta invitacin a su lista de contactos. Para informacin
adicional puede contactar a Domingo Garca al 214-941-8300 o al correo
electrnico _garciadtx@aol.com_ (mailto:garciadtx@aol.com)

Esperamos verlos el sbado!

Sinceramente,

Domingo A. Garca

Presidente, LULAC Concilio 102
Dallas Chorizo and Menudo Community Breakfast

Hosted by:

President, Domingo Garca, LULAC Chapter 102

Date: Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Time: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Place:

El Ranchito Restaurant
610 W Jefferson Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75208

Mike Miles - Superintendent, DISD

After graduating from West Point with a degree in engineering, Mr. Miles
entered the ranks of the Army officer corps at Ft. Lewis, Washington and
became part of the elite Ranger Battalion and commanded an Infantry Rifle
Company. Following the Army, Mr. Miles studied at the University of
California at Berkeley and the University of Leningrad in Russia, earning a
degree
in Slavic languages. Mr. Miles then completed his Master's degree in
Soviet affairs and public policy at Columbia University after winning a Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities and a National Science Foundation Graduate
Scholarship.

Upon graduation from Columbia, Mr. Miles joined the U.S. State Department
and worked as an analyst at the Soviet Desk. In this role, he made policy
recommendations and wrote talking points for the Secretary of State
regarding German reunification, chemical weapons, NATO and other issues.

Mr. Miles then became a Foreign Service Officer representing the United
States overseas. As a diplomat in Warsaw, Poland, he was responsible for
tracking Poland's evolving relations with Russia and the countries of Eastern
Europe, specifically analyzing the strength of the Communist Party in
Poland and correctly predicting its return to political power in 1993.

A tour at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow followed, where Mr. Miles served as
Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Mr. Miles helped
coordinate the Embassy's response to critical events during a time when Russia's
relations with the U.S. were as yet undefined. Mr. Miles received the
State Department's Meritorious Service Medal in 1994 as a result of his
diplomatic service in Russia.

Ready to continue his commitment to public service stateside, Mr. Miles
decided to become an educator, influenced by the difference teachers had
made in his own life. Mr. Miles began as a high-school teacher at his alma
mater in Fountain, Colorado where he taught high school math, social studies,
and economics. Next, Mr. Miles became a middle school principal, followed
by a stint as assistant superintendent.

In 2006, Mr. Miles took over as Superintendent of Harrison District 2 in
Colorado Springs, one of the most ethnically diverse and economically
disadvantaged districts in Colorado. During his tenure, the District raised
student achievement by elevating academic standards, aligning the curriculum
and focusing on principal leadership and teachers' quality of instruction.
Mr. Miles began his tenure as Dallas ISD's 21st Superintendent of Schools
on July 1, 2012.

Upon assuming leadership of the district, Superintendent Miles led the
development of Destination 2020, a comprehensive plan designed to raise
student achievement so that Dallas ISD students are prepared for college and
careers. The plan, now in implementation, emphasizes four fundamental
tenets: Focusing on the Classroom, Investing in People, Strengthening our
Systems, and Engaging the Community. In the first two years of his tenure, DISD
adopted a new principal evaluation system and a teacher evaluation system
that ties teacher evaluations to performance, student achievement results,
and compensation.

Mr. Miles and wife Karen have three children-two who recently graduated
from UCLA and Berkeley, and son Anthony, who is in middle school.

Sam Houston - Candidate for Attorney General, State of Texas

Sam Houston learned Texas values growing up in the small, West Texas town
of Colorado City, about halfway between Midland and Abilene.
He learned the value of hard work helping at his family's small hardware
and auto parts store. No job was too small for Sam, from sweeping floors
to helping customers assemble bicycles.
Sam learned the value of small businesses to a community, and he learned
that successful businesses are built on trust.
He learned the value of respect - and the importance of role models -
from his grandfather R.P. "Pete" Ainsworth, a rancher who managed the
Renderbrook Spade Ranch, and from his uncle Fred McClellan, a cotton farmer.
Sam learned the value of the law from his grandfather, and he grew to
admire the Colorado City lawyers he saw working everyday to protect the
interests of their clients.
Struck by the courage and dedication those attorneys demonstrated, Sam
decided at an early age to become a lawyer, himself. He attended the
University of Texas at Austin and Baylor Law School. Today Sam serves as a
partner at Shepherd, Scott, Clawater & Houston, LLP. A successful, practicing
attorney for 26 years, Sam lives in Houston with his wife Jantha and their
two children.

Dr. Angela Moemeka - Vice-President and Medical Director for Community
Health

Dr. Moemeka is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics, and
Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics. She comes to Children's with
extensive experience in developing, implementing and evaluating community based
pediatric programs and will be an excellent addition to our entire
organization. As a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine,
Dr. Moemeka spent several years as a pediatric provider and Hospitalist
with the Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Temple University Health System
and Community Health Center, (CHC, Inc.) in Meriden, CT. Dr. Moemeka is
intimately familiar with the dynamics of an academically based medical model
having previously served as an appointed faculty member with the Yale
School of Medicine and Yale School of Nursing. She also possesses a Six Sigma
Green Belt Certification along with an M.B.A. from the Fox School of
Business at Temple University.

From a community perspective, Angela was the Medical Champion for Reach
Out and Read and served as the Vaccine Coordinator for the Fair Haven
Community Health Center. She has been the clinical leader, working alongside
health systems, school districts, social services agencies and non-profit
organizations throughout her career engaging them in multi-faceted, community
based efforts to improve health outcomes for children. In her role at
Children's, we believe her previous clinical training combined with her
community engagement expertise made her the ideal candidate for this position.
Dr. Moemeka will have a dual reporting role to Dr. Robert Morrow, Chief
Clinical Officer and Peter Roberts, EVP, Population Health and Network
Development. She will be responsible for the provision of medical leadership
for the CMC supported community health initiatives which
are owned and directed by various community stakeholders. As the Medical
Director, she will also participate and help lead the implementation of
clinically related interventions in conjunction with community based
pediatric organizations and clinicians. Angela is very transparent about her
commitment to excellence and children. There is no doubt her past leadership
experiences combined with her strong constituency building skills will be a
refreshing asset to our team.

Manuel Benavides - Irving ISD Voting Lawsuit Plantiff

Manuel "Manny" Benavidez, 68, a retired aircraft technician, has lived in
Irving since 1971. Benavidez, a Mexican-American, was born and raised on
the west side of San Antonio. His four children attended Irving ISD
schools. He ran for the school board twice and lost, which prompted his
lawsuits against the city and school district. There are currently no Hispanic
representatives on either governing body .

Travis Kelly - V.P Government Relations, Texas Central High-Speed
Railway

Travis Kelly is Vice President of Government Relations for Texas Central
High-Speed Railway (TCR). In this capacity, Travis manages TCR's marketing,
state and federal government affairs, as well as all local government,
public and stakeholder outreach. After working to raise the profile of
high-speed rail among elected officials in Texas, Travis is now working to
support TCR's efforts to bring high-speed passenger rail to Texas.

A native Texan and graduate of Baylor University, Travis' transportation
experience includes monitoring and advancing a number of public policy
initiatives on behalf of various public and private sector clients. As a
consultant supporting the Texas High-Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation,
Travis was actively involved in the grassroots advocacy of high-speed rail
across Texas and in drafting and supporting transportation and high-speed
rail legislation at both the federal and state levels. Prior to his work
on high-speed rail, Travis co-led the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort
Worth's Programs Department as Director of Programs. Juan Pena -
Account Manager, AIM

AimTruancy Solutions is the brainchild of founders Paul Pottinger, Ph.D.,
a psychologist, and Shelton Stogner, a veteran with more than 30 years'
experience in the field of juvenile justice and truancy enforcement. In
2005, the two developed an intensive supervision service incorporating GPS
monitoring to keep at-risk youth in school. The service's initial tests
yielded extraordinary results.
In a short time, that program has evolved into the unique mentoring and
monitoring solution that sets AimTruancy apart. We are headquartered in
Dallas, Texas and serve school districts and communities nationwide.
Juan Pena will speak about the different programs AIM has to offer in
helping at risk stay in school.
Sarah Lopez - City of Dallas Waste Diversion

Waste Diversion - put simply, wants to keep your stuff out of the
landfill when at all possible. They do this through the three R's of Recycling:
Reducing consumption and waste, Reusing materials to save resources, and
Recycling or composting anything we can.
Their team will come to any community event, school, or festival to
provide education, resources and guidance to City of Dallas residents. We have
fun, engaging, and interactive ways to teach both children and adults of
all ages how to correctly recycle, set up backyard or vermi-compost bins,
and reduce your carbon footprint. They can also customize our presentation to
your specific event.
The Waste Diversion Team is dedicated to making life in Dallas even
better by:
* Researching ways to add NEW recyclable items to our program, like
cartons and athletic shoes!
* Providing environmental education for all City of Dallas
residents.
* Supporting your community events with recycling collection.
* Providing Master Composter certification courses.
* Working with local organizations to place community recycling
containers near where you live, work, and play!

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In the late 1800s, disgruntled farmers in the Midwest and South decided
they could no longer support the Democratic or Republican Parties. Neither
of the major parties was responsive to their concerns amid crop failures
and falling prices during a recession, so the farmers decided to throw their
weight behind an upstart, _the Populist or Peoples Party

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html

White and black farmers joined together, even in the South, to support
candidates who called for the federal government to provide credit and financial
support during a time of low crop yields and economic downturn. They succeeded
in electing

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html

governors, congressmen and hundreds of minor officials and legislators,
primarily throughout the Midwest. The party was geographically concentrated,
which allowed them to focus their efforts to elect congressional candidates.
The Populists lasted only a few years as an independent entity, but their
success clearly got the attention of the mainstream parties. Most
important, it had a lasting impact on policy, even beyond the issues pushed by
the farmers. _Many of the Populists demands

http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1302/populism.html

became law by the 1920sincluding the direct election of U. S. senators, the
development of a progressive federal income tax and the availability of short-
term credit in rural areas.

Latinos in the United States are now confronting a dilemma similar to the
one faced by the farmers. A recent _Gallup poll

http://www.gallup.com/poll/176180/hispanics-name-immigration-top-
problem.aspx?utm_source=WWW&utm_medium=csm&utm_campaign=syndication

indicates that the number of Latinos ranking immigration as a top issue doubled
since the first half of this year.

Yet Latinos have been forced to endure bitter disappointment from a
Democratic president who has broken many immigration promises, in no small
measure because the Republican-led House of Representatives refuses to act on
immigration reform in Congress. The presidents decision to defer deportation
of newly arrived childrena decision announced just five months before
the 2012 presidential electionincreased enthusiasm for Obama among Latinos;
71 percent of the record 11.2 million Latinos who turned out to vote cast
their ballot for Obama.

Many of them are now deeply disappointed. The presidentwho had
campaigned in 2008 on a pledge to reform the immigration systemagain promised
to make the issue an early and top priority during his second term. Congress
stymied those efforts, so Obama pledged to take executive actiononly to
delay it until after the midterms. No wonder a new _Pew Research Center poll

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/23/hispanic-democrats-are-
really-down-on-their-partys-immigration-efforts

shows that a majority of Latino voters think the Democratic Party is doing a
poor job on immigration, and a different recent survey indicates _substantially
dampened enthusiasm

http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/09/08/did-dems-miss-an-opportunity-for-
latino-mobilization

for Obama and the Democrats among Latino voters because of inaction on
immigration reform. Even as the president tried to smooth over differences this
week at an appearance before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus annual gala,
some _frustrated Latino activists

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/after-obamas-punt-maybe-latinos-
should-sit-election-out-110728.html?ml=m_b3_1#.VBT83hYhD_y

are contemplating deliberately sitting out the midterm election to make
Democrats pay a price at the polls.

Many of them are now deeply disappointed. The presidentwho had
campaigned in 2008 on a pledge to reform the immigration systemagain promised
to make the issue an early and top priority during his second term. Congress
stymied those efforts, so Obama pledged to take executive actiononly to
delay it until after the midterms. Now wonder a new _Pew Research Center poll

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/23/hispanic-democrats-are-
really-down-on-their-partys-immigration-efforts

shows that a majority of Latino voters think the Democratic Party is doing a
poor job on immigration, and a different recent survey indicates _substantially
dampened enthusiasm

http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2014/09/08/did-dems-miss-an-opportunity-for-
latino-mobilization

for Obama and the Democrats among Latino voters because of inaction on
immigration reform. Because of their profound disappointment with the Democrats
inaction, some _frustrated Latino activists

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/after-obamas-punt-maybe-latinos-
should-sit-election-out-110728.html?ml=m_b3_1#.VBT83hYhD_y

are even contemplating deliberately sitting out the midterm election to
make Democrats pay a price at the polls.

But are these the only alternativesstay home and sulk, or accept the
better of two bad options? Could it be time for Latinos to follow the path
forged by the disgruntled farmers? Or follow the model in Europe, where third
parties are fairly common?

In Europe, minorities and special interests often form their own parties
when they feel their issues are not being championed by larger parties.
This is most easily done in countries with _proportional representation

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/BeginnningReading/howprwor.htm

which allows more than one representative for each district andunlike
winner-take-all systems like most of the United Statesallocate seats based on
the percentage of votes garnered by each contender. In such a system, minor
parties are often able to gain enough support to win seats in legislatures.
Examples include Basque nationalists in Spain, as well as Green and
far-right parties across Europe. In places like Britain that have majoritarian
systems with single-member districts, geographically concentrated parties
like the Scottish National Party are able to win seats in Parliament. Even
here in the United States, the occasional small party or independent can
win a seat, including in the U.S. Senate. (One example: Sen. Bernie Sanders,
the Vermont Independent who caucuses with Democrats.)
As relative newcomers, immigrants often dont have the money or other
resources needed to start a new party. Far-right party leaders, on the other
hand, tend to come from existing parties and have a built-in support
network.

Indeed, in Europes multi-party system, it has been anti-immigrant far
right parties that have taken hold. We have an _analogue in the Tea Party

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9954.html

in the United States. Yet the Tea Party is not truly a separate partyat least
for now, it is a faction within the Republican Party that has managed to set the
agenda on issues like immigration.

By and large, majoritarian electoral rules like ours produce two-party
systems. There is no hope in the foreseeable future that those rules will
change and that means that small parties, like the Populist Party, inevitably
disappear or, like the _Libertarian

http://www.lp.org

and _Green

http://www.gp.org/index.php

Parties, remain on the fringes of a system
dominated by the two major parties.

Still, there are some reasons42 million of them, to start withto think
that a Latino party could be different. Various ethnic groups have
historically wielded a great deal of influence within political parties,
particularly at the local and state levels. The German-American Alliance, the
_Ancient Order of Hibernians

http://www.aoh.com

the oldest and largest
Irish Catholic organization in the United States and the Immigrants
Protection League all _mobilized against the restriction of immigration

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7288.html

in the early 20th century.

Latinos also have an important advantage which supports the idea of starting a
separate party: They still tend to be geographically concentrated in such
states as California, Florida and Texas which allows them to focus their
efforts, like the Populist party did in the 1890s.
Another relevant historical example is the _Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party (MFDP)._

(http://mlk-
kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_mississippi_freedom_de
mocratic_party/)

Fifty years ago Fannie Lou Hamer appealed to the conscience of the Democratic
Party, asking for the Democratic National Committees credential committee to
recognize their delegation in place of the all-white Democratic delegation from
the state.

The leadership came to a compromise and agreed to seat two members of the
delegation, but the white delegation walked off and wouldnt accept the
compromise. Nevertheless, the example set by the MFDP would have a clear
impact on the Democratic Party in the South going forward. Despite the
prospect of losing white support in the South, the Democratic Party supported
civil rights legislation and gained the support of a majority of black voters.
An ethnic party did arise in the United States in the late 1960s as the
Chicano Movement organized and called for a third party to focus on
self-determination for Mexican-Americans. The main focus of organizers was in
Texas, where _La Raza Unida_

(http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/war01)

party won seats on city councils, school boards, and even ran a
candidate for governor in 1972 and 1978. However, the partys support
declined as party activism slowed in the late 1970s.
Hispanic Americans are in a better political position today than either
the MFDP was five decades ago or even La Raza Unida was in the 70s. In
terms of representation, there is the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the
113th Congress has a _record number of Latino elected officials

(http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2013/01/25/latino-representation-in-the-
113th-congress

with 35 representatives and three senators. Most of these
representatives are Democrats, and the immigration issue has been a high
priority,
as evidenced by the scathing criticism recently lobbed at the president
by Representatives _Raul Grijalva

http://grijalva.house.gov/news-and-press-releases/grijalva-slams-delay-for-
executive-action-on-immigration-reform

(Ariz.) and _Luis Gutierrez

https://gutierrez.house.gov/press-release/no-delaying-tactics-executive-branch-
action-immigration-after-election

(Ill.). Organizations like the _National Council of La Raza

http://www.nclr.org/

the _Mexican American Legal Defense

http://www.maldef.org

and Education Fund and a variety of pro-immigration organizations have lobbied
for immigration reform and deportation relief. How long will it be before
such groups grow exasperated with the Democrats failure to move these
issues forward?

A Latino party might even help solve the biggest obstacle to greater
political cloutboosting turnout. At the time of the last midterm election,
_data from the Pew Research Center

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2011/04/26/the-latino-electorate-in-2010-more-voters-
more-non-voters/

shows, Latinos chalked up a sharp increase in the number of eligible voters,
while the number of actual voters is increasing more slowly. Also, as Pew notes,
even among eligible voters, Latino participation rates have lagged behind that
of other groups in recent elections. For example, 31.2 percent of Latino
eligible voters said they voted in 2010, compared with nearly half of white
eligible voters and 44 percent of black eligible voters. An independent
Latino Party or a cohesive Latino bloc within an existing party that focused
on the issues most important to Latinos could spur increased participation
and thus more political clout.

The smartest approach in the short run might be for Latinos to work
within the existing party system, even as they continue to organize and swell
their ranks within the electorate. In the long-termespecially if Democrats
and Republicans continue to disappointthey will need to assess their
potential for working together as a voting bloc and whether this could lead to
support for a party. Is this a long shot? Yes, but its better than
sitting on the sidelines or waiting for others to act. How long will it be
before Hispanic-Americans patience runs out?

Read more:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/is-it-time-for-a-latino-political-
party-111558.html#ixzz3F3Cn1VsI

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