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26 February 2012

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Texas LULAC Goes to War against National LULAC

By Bernardo Eureste, Editor
26 February 2012
Texas LULAC went to war against national LULAC in their Texas board meeting held in Austin this weekend. There were many ways to paint this picture, but the end line was that Texas LULAC was fed up with the stupid antics of national LULAC. The elements of what happened this weekend in Austin were put into final form at last week's meeting of the national LULAC board held in Washington, DC. Among the many things discussed at that national board meeting were matters dealing with Texas LULAC, including Joey Cardenas as the voice of Texas LULAC in the Texas redistricting battle that is ongoing in Texas today, the appointment of Joey Cardenas as the Executive Director of Texas LULAC and the change of the national LULAC convention from El Paso to Las Vegas for 2013. The end of all of this was warnings to Linda Chavez and Joey Cardenas to cease and desist or be removed from office and possible ouster from the organization of LULAC. A concrete piece of this total negative air between national LULAC and Texas LULAC was the report that the stupid Baldo Garza, the national LULAC VP for the Southwest, gave at the last national LULAC meeting. While the Latino world in the southwestern United States that this stupid person represents at national LULAC is undergoing foreclosures and unemployment at unprecedented rates, the report that he gave to national includes five action items to report on: "1. Baldo Garza III, VP for Southwest motioned to have LULAC national release an official statement of the removal of Texas State Director Joey Cardenas. No action needed. Legal sent

out a letter on October 7, 2011 informing Texas LULAC Board of the removal of Joey Cardenas." "2. Baldo Garza III, VP for Southwest, motioned for LULAC to send a letter to Texas LULAC State Director Linda Chavez and copy Texas State Board to remove Chronology of Events Leading to the removal of Texas State Director Joey Cardenas III from the Texas LULAC Website (txlulac.org), seconded by Sandra Jurado, National Youth President. Vote taken. Motion passed." "3. Baldo Garza III, VP for Southwest motioned for LULAC to send a letter to Texas State Director Linda Chavez to prohibit Bernardo Eureste from attending any LULAC events. No action was taken. LULAC events are open to the public." "4. Baldo Garza III, VP for Southwest motioned for legal to review, and discuss the National League of Latin American Citizens (NLLAC) and what proper action to take. No action taken. LULAC legal is currently reviewing the aforementioned." "5. Baldo Garza III, VP for Southwest motioned for legal to review and research proper action to take against [V]oice of the [M]ainland for articles written against LULAC. LULAC legal will review what can be done to stop the [M]ainland from publishing stories against LULAC. LULAC will provide an update at the next board meeting. Roger Rocha, National Treasurer, recommends for LULAC to release positive media through the new media campaign." These are taken from official national LULAC minutes. The Texas LULAC Board meeting on Saturday continued with the ass kicking that Linda Chavez got at the national LULAC board meeting last week. They told her that her continued support of Joey Cardenas would result in her impeachment and removal from her office of State Director of Texas LULAC. As for the El Paso 2013 national conference being moved to Las Vegas, that was a done deal, national had decided and that was that. The LULAC constitution states in very clear language that LULAC national conventions are decided by the national LULAC assembly at its national convention. The El Paso decision was made by the assembly in 2010 in Albuquerque. It was evident that the national board did not care one iota about the LULAC constitution. It was revealed at the state board meeting today that national was going to assign a monitor to oversee the Texas LULAC elections in San Marcos this year. National wants to kill Texas LULAC. They do not like it. They have no respect for it. They dispise it. So national tells state, that national will have monitors at the Texas LULAC elections this year. It is felt that Rosa Rosales and Margaret Moran are going to run Elia Mendoza for Texas State Director and want to fix the way that she can get elected at the Texas LULAC convention in San Marcos. National has never sent monitors to monitor state elections. The United Nations sends monitors to monitor elections in Somalia, a war torn country, to El Salvador when it was coming out of its brutal civil war, to Kosovo after its ethnic cleansing war. But, why do we need monitors from national LULAC to monitor the Texas LULAC state convention in San Marcos?

Part of the warning that Linda Chavez received from national was that Joey Cardenas was not to be given any recognition as a former anything with LULAC. The national stupids want to erase any time that Joey Cardenas has had with LULAC from the face of history. He will be directed by national to cease from making any reference in his remarks to the public as a former official of LULAC. If he introduces himself as ... "Hello, I'm Joey Cardenas, the former State Director of Texas LULAC," or Hello, I'm Joey Cardenas, the ex-State Director of Texas LULAC," it will be viewed as an infringement on the LULAC trademark. This is the stupid work of Jose Escobar, the LULAC attorney, who will send out this "cease and desist" letter. Joey Cardenas and Texas LULAC had had enough. After the noon break, the Texas LULAC board came back from recess. The first item to discuss was an email that was sent to certain Texas LULAC board members that four LULAC councils were bringing charges against Linda Chavez, the person who was appointed to succeed Joey Cardenas as State Director of Texas LULAC. The attack was penned by Marcel Tafolla, from Austin. He got three other LULAC councils to co-pen the letter. The communique was sent by email, not in person. The purpose of the complaint was to create a trail that will lead to the impeachment of Linda Chavez, the second Texas State Director to be impeached in less than one year, from Texas: first it was Joey, and now it is Linda. The complaint in the letter was that Linda had sent out an email announcing that she was running for State Director of Texas LULAC. That, according to the four complaining parties, was a breach of ethics related to the use of email addresses by a LULAC State official to promote her campaign. Tafolla and his stupids don't like Linda Chavez. Instead of presenting their complaints in person to the State Board meeting in Austin, they decided to email the complaint, hoping that a complaint would be taken up. They noted in their email that if State did not take up the complaint that they would take it up to national. The four complainers did not have the macho juevos (sic) to make the presentation in person or to speak on the issue in person. They permitted their complaint to be presented to the state board in email form as itd been spammed to certain state board members. The state board discussed the email complaint as an insult to the leadership of Texas LULAC. The attempt was seen by many as a cheap shot at Linda Chavez. The board saw it as the start of a process that gets Linda Chavez impeached by the national LULAC board at their next national board meeting in April, one which seeks to have her replaced by Elia Mendoza, the person who announced that she was running for the office of State Director of Texas LULAC. After all of the hooting and hollering from national, Texas LULAC had had enough. They voted to start down a line that will get them into a final shootout with national LULAC. The legal steps will be addressed in the next few days. The political steps followed immediately. A major story that came out of this fighting between national and Texas LULAC was that Joey Cardenas tendered his resignation from his position as the Executive Director of Texas LULAC. This was the position that Texas LULAC had given Joey Cardenas after national removed him from his position as State Director of Texas LULAC. Towards the end of the Texas board meeting today, Joey Cardenas announced that he was running for the position as National

President of National LULAC. The announcement was greeted with cheers. Texas LULAC is on a warpath with national LULAC. They intend to have Joey Cardenas elected as the leader of this national organization. They are very unhappy with national and are asking for other mainland LULAC members to join them in this final showdown in Orlando this summer.

Mexican American Studies

University of North Texas Denton, Texas

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