They gerrymander, and make rules like the [Texas voter ID] law.RC: There have been many changes, some good, some not so good.
A regular day on the job for Castro includes back-to-back meetings, groundbreaking ceremonies, luncheons and appearances at various events. The debate had already caused him to leave his job at Akin Gump. There is more to be done to develop young folks, to build a pipeline. “We had quite a few more for the Young Democrats.”People’s World, June 12, 1971, covered the meeting “!,500 in San Antonio at Free Angela meeting. For me, that was the beginning of really understanding how important it is to vote, to field candidates, to organize, to have a seat at the public policy table.Part of what you see is that people don’t have trust. She met donors and supporters from all communities. And like her, he remembers abhorrent conditions there. You have to ask yourself: Why? And two, making sure that the Democratic Party gets better about offering opportunities to young people. “We started to get more clout. When politicos studied the map to see where support for Barrio Betterment candidates was strong, she said, it showed they could have won if they’d been able to run in geographic districts, rather than as at-large candidates dependent on the city-wide vote.Retired as interim dean of student success at Palo Alto College, Castro continues to do the political work she began at Little Flower Catholic School, where she was president or vice president of every student group and editor of the school newspaper. As she did so powerfully at Plaza Guadalupe last month, she’ll make her case that Julián Castro is the Democrat to back, that he needs their support. So she organized — for both groups.Women played a significant role in that period generally — and the '69 race, he said. Castro’s mother, Rosie Castro, graduated from Our Lady of the Lake in 1971 with a bachelor’s in Spanish, and in 1971 became one of the first Chicanas to run for City Council. Rosie Castro: In my neighborhood, it was predominantly African-American families with a handful of Latino families. Castro has often been seen alongside her twin sons, Julián and Joaquin, at civic engagement meetings across the… "It's been manageable so far," he says, detailing the routine he and his wife have for dropping off and picking up their daughter from day care.The poster, tattered and faded, serves as a tribute to the woman who helped shape the young politician and his ambitions. The top state of residence is California, followed by Texas. She and Guzman helped run a slate of candidates in 1969 backed by the Committee for Barrio Betterment. I felt that was important at an early age, one, because of volunteerism. "It's both hers and mine," Castro says of his mother's influence on his childhood dream of being this city's mayor.Castro, who's been described as poised and reflective by supporters and stoic and calculating by detractors, began his bid for city office while still a student at Harvard.
And for me, I love seeing that, because that means the future is brighter. My mother made a living as a maid. In the middle of a busy Mexican restaurant, perfect strangers stop her. When I came back and did some stuff with the Democratic Party, they got to see that. [Republicans] have made sure there is no comprehensive immigration reform for many years, and it looks like that’s going to continue unless the American people can get the Republican Party to stop negating everything the Democrats and the president say.RC: They were born in 1974, and [La Raza Unida] was only active for a couple more years. One of the things that I got involved in was the Young Democrats [at Our Lady of the Lake University].
Two years later, in '71, she ran on a four-candidate slate backed by the committee and La Raza. Their mother, Rosie Castro, had been a fiery community organizer in San Antonio during the Chicano movement of the 1960s and '70s; after an unsuccessful run for city council in 1971…
Rosie Castro, mother of Julian Castro, who has announced that he is running for president of the United States, speaks on his behalf at Plaza Guadalupe on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. One of Julian’s first acts as mayor in 2009 was hanging a 1971 La Raza Unida city council campaign poster, featuring his mother, in his office.
I was very fortunate that I was at a Catholic school, but by the time I graduated in 1965, there was about an 80 percent dropout rate for Latinos and a 4 percent college-going rate.Now, are we where we want to be? He’ll focus on the average American who cares enough to make a contribution.”Longtime friends head over to her booth, too. He'd meet with neighborhood leaders during visits home on school breaks, and he had his first campaign fundraiser during his final year in law school. We’re not stupid people, we’re just different people.