how the republicans duped chairman lewis - hcdp

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To: Mary Almendarez

Subject: RE: Lane Lewis and estado51prusa are still waiting

for you to join Twitter...

I have prepared a winded response simply because it is a response that Iwill share on the Voice of the Mainland. The title of the email

exchanges is very telling:

Subject: RE: Lane Lewis and estado51prusa are still waiting for you

to join Twitter...

I changed the title.

To get a feel for the breath of the platica, scroll down to the bottom of

this post and read up from the first email from Chairman Lewis, read the

response, then read the query to the Editor, me, the respondent, here,

Bernardo Eureste, a fromer City Councilman from San Antonio and the

Chairman of the Texas Democrats for Edward Kennedy for President in

1980, a Bexar County co-chairman of the Jimmy Carter campaign for

President, a Bexar County co-chairman with the Jesse Jackson

Campaign for President and a supporter of hundreds of DemocraticParty candidates and initiatives in Texas.

Lane Lewis is the chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party. My

response is how the Republican Party can hook-wink a Democrat, and a

powerful one at that. He purpose of my response is to educate the reader

and Democrats on the issue of island Puerto Ricos push for statehood,

which came to me from Mary Almendarez, a proud leader in LULAC

and in political matters in Houston, Harris County and in Texas.

I will start out with an article that appeared in the Hill:

Puerto Rico statehood bill tops GOP's 'citizen cosponsor' listl Source:

The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/304499-puerto-rico-statehood-bill-tops-gops-citizen-cosponsor-listhttp://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/304499-puerto-rico-statehood-bill-tops-gops-citizen-cosponsor-listhttp://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/304499-puerto-rico-statehood-bill-tops-gops-citizen-cosponsor-list


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This is a story that gets close to what you are dealing with. Read the

piece. The brief story on PR is good. The chances of passage do not

look good. That is good for me. The article says that the odds do notlook good for passage.

The 2012 Election for Governor, Senate, House and Municipalities

Puerto Rico is now under the control of the Pepes, the Partido

Popular Democratico de Puerto Rico. In 2012, they won the

governorship of PR, the Senate, the House and over 70 municipalities.

The PPD is against statehood, they favour status quo, the way it is today.

From Wikipedia

On the elections held on November 6, 2012, the party regained the top

offices: Alejandro Garca Padilla was elected governor and Carmen

"Yuln"Cruz was elected as Mayor of San Juan. The party also took

back control of the House Of Representatives and Senate of Puerto

Rico.

The Plebiscite

A plebiscite was on the matter of state status was placed on the ballot atthe same time of the state elections, November 6, 2012. It was placed

for a vote by the then PNP, Governor Luis Fortuno, in a 2 step vote. The

first question for the voter to vote on was whether the voter favoured the

status quo or did they want change. The vote was a simple majority for

change. The next question on the ballot was to select the choices,

statehood, a form of statehood, not what PR has now, and independence.

Because the question of status quo was not place on the ballot in proper

language, the PPD instructed its voters to not vote in the second step.440,000 did not vote in step 2. The vote in step 1 was 1,775,893, The

vote in step 2 was 1,348,876. Wiki has a brief critique of what the PPD

was saying about the 2nd

step.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Garc%C3%ADa_Padillahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Garc%C3%ADa_Padilla


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Criticism[edit] (Wikipedia)

Critics said that voters who favor a developed version of the current

status of Puerto Rico (a commonwealth which is part of the United

States with internal self-government) had no alternatives on the ballot.As a result, leaders of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) instructed

such voters to leave the second portion of the ballot blank, or to

invalidate the ballot.[26]

The history professor Luis Agrait said to CNN that "a large number of

ballots -- one-third of all votes cast -- were left blank on the question of

preferred alternative status. If you assume those blank votes are anti-

statehood votes, the true result for the statehood option would be lessthan 50%[27]

The truco in how the plebiscite was done is a serious weakness in the

outcome of the plebiscite.

Puerto Rico has had 3 plebiscites on the issue of the islands status, in

1967, 1993, and 1998, [e]Each time, the results favored retaining the

current status over the possible independence of Puerto Rico and

statehood alternatives. Wiki

Although Garca Padilla has questioned the validity of the results, he

has stated that he plans to go forward with what President Barack

Obama had suggested, and convene a constituent assembly to resolve the

status issue.[7]

Wiki

If Governor Garcia Padilla does what President Obama proposes, the

Governor, with the PPD, who control the government of Puerto Rico,will hold a constituent assembly on the issue of island status. The

outcome is obvious. The PPDs won, and Obama understands that. He

also knows that the PPDs do not favor a change in status. I feel very

confident that President Obama and Garcia Padilla knows how to

handle the issue. Remember, strong democrats in Congress, Luis
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012&action=edit&section=6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Democratic_Party_of_Puerto_Ricohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_independence_movementhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._statehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obamahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obamahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_assemblyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-nohaytiempo-7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-nohaytiempo-7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-nohaytiempo-7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_assemblyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obamahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obamahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._statehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_independence_movementhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012#cite_note-26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Democratic_Party_of_Puerto_Ricohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012&action=edit&section=6


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Gutierrez from Chi-Town and Nydia Velasquez, from NYC, do not

support statehood for PR.

It is obvious that the Harris County Democratic Party does not

understand that he is being made a fool by the Republican Party.

According to the article in the Hill, cited above, the Republicans have a

website inviting weak Democrats to co-venture, i.e., co-author,

legislation with the Republicans. Making island Puerto Rico the 51 state

is one of those ventures. If its coming from Chairman Lewis, dont pay

attention to him. He has not studied the issue. Between 2/3s to of

the 4 million Puerto Ricans who live on the mainland, i.e., the 50 states

of the United States of American do not support statehood. That is why

representatives from very strong Puerto Rican congressional districts,

Gutierrez and Velasquez can vote against statehood and not bother

about the consequences back in their districts. They are reflecting the

will of the Puerto Ricans who reside in their districts. Chairman Lewis

no sabe en lo que se esta metiendo.

A majority of Chicanos, Mexican Americans, do not favor statehood.

Chicanos and boriquas, mainland Puerto Ricans, are generally found onthe same page.

How Latinos have gotten into the issue of island Puerto Rico status is

through LULAC, when the PNP, the Nuevo Partido Progresista de Puerto

Rico, the Republican Party of island Puerto Rico, started to take over

control of national LULAC by paying for 325 delegates from island

Puerto Rico to vote in a block at the National LULAC Convention in El

Paso. That block of votes, mixed with a little over 90 mainland LULACvotes produced a winner for the conservative mainland faction in

LULAC to edge out a 4 point victory to take over control of National

LULAC. They did it again in 1998 and edged out another win with a

margin of 16 votes, that time bringing in 345 delegates. These National

LULAC Conventions drew just over 800 delegates. The liberal faction in


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National LULAC represents about 75% of the delegate votes. But when

you are confronted with a million dollar campaign by the PNP from

island Puerto Rico, its hard to counter that kind of money. This

strategy stopped in 2002 and 2006, mostly because members of the

PNP were investigated by the FBI and put some of the PNP leaders in

prison and chilled them out for a while. In 2010, the PNP was back into

National LLAC when the PNP financed about 300 island delegates to

block vote for Margaret Moran for National president of LULAC. The

PNP was their again in 2011, 2012 and 2013. This time, together with

the island block and massive cheating by the conservative national

LULAC operatives, Moran was re-elected to office. The PNPs interest in

national LULAC is statehood. LULLAC gives the PNP the lobbying arm in

Washington to push for statehood. For a $1,000,000 the PNP gets

millions of dollars in lobbying power in the halls of Congress. They have

found favor with the Republican Party. Luis Fortuno was a Mitt

Romney supporter. Romey used Fortuno to get island Puerto Rico

votes in the mainland.

My advise to Chairman Lewis is to un-Tweeker yourself from the island

Puerto Rico campaign for statehood (estado51prusa) or you will find awhole bunch of Chicanos un-tweekering you out from office and from a

future in the Democratic Party.

From: Mary Almendarez [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:32 AMTo: [email protected]: Fwd: Lane Lewis and estado51prusa are still waiting for

you to join Twitter...

Hi Bernardo, I have been receiving emails from "estado51prusa"or other such idiotic groups that have included "Lane Lewis(Chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party) and hispicture." The emails exchanged below are self explained. I


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wonder if other Harris County Democratic (LULAC) residents arereceiving these same emails. I thought you might be interested inknowing about in this weird situation and maybe might want touse your investigative skills to figure out what the "hell" is going

on. (Frankly, I tend to think there are too many conspiracy'saround us. :) Thanks, Mary

Mary Almendarez; 713 699-9716 Phone/Fax; 832 687-9981

Cell;

The future depends on what we do in the present. - MahatmaGandhi-----Original Message-----

From: Mary Almendarez To: countychair Cc: marylramos Sent: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:23 pmSubject: Re: Lane Lewis and estado51prusa are still waiting foryou to join Twitter...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE INCLARIFYING SOME ASPECT OF THESE EMAILS. I SURE

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF IT IS THE DEVIANTS THAT HAVEINVADED LULAC NATIONAL. GUESS I WILL START WITHTWITTER. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU HEAR ANYFURTHER ABOUT THIS FROM ANYONE ELSE. THANKS

AGAIN.

Mary Almendarez; 713 699-9716 Phone; 832 687-9981 Cell;

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma

Gandhi

-----Original Message-----From: Chairman Lewis To: Mary Almendarez
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Cc: marylramos Sent: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:41 pmSubject: Re: Lane Lewis and estado51prusa are still waiting foryou to join Twitter...

I have no idea why you are getting it. It's not coming from me.

~Lane Lewis, ChairmanHarris County Democratic Party

On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Mary Almendarez wrote:

To Chairman Lewis:With all due respect, why am I receiving these emailsregarding Puerto Rico? First of all, yes I have deletedprior emails. Secondly, I am not on twitter and do notintend to use it. Thirdly, and most importantly: Did theparty vote to support making Puerto Rico a state?Please tell me the answer is NO! If the answer is yes,then I am very disappointed as a Democrat and as amember of LULAC. Personally I and others areopposed to statehood for a variety of reasons. Numberone is the Puerto Ricans themselves cannot decide forthemselves. Second, we have seen what a disastercan be created by an alliance with a contingency ofcertain Puerto Ricans. We would be glad to share ourexperiences. Sincerely,

Mary Almendarez; 713 699-9716 Phone; 832 687-9981 Cell;

The future depends on what we do in the present. -Mahatma Gandhi
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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