I consider Diana Davia a friend and have known her for over 30 years. While I tried to defend her, saying that what they were accusing her of doing was not in her power, the white people, the black people, and even some coconut people wanted to roast the brown people. No single Latino organization stood up for her and some of the other Latinos who were falsely accused.
Investigators did single out Dávila in their report, accusing her of conspiring with an HISD administrator, her husband and two other individuals to steer a contractto a custodial company in 2016. An unnamed HISD administrator told investigators he attended a meeting in which Dávila demanded HISD cancel a contract with the company, MetroClean Commercial Building Services. The owner of MetroClean also told investigators that the owner of a competing company invoked Dávila’s name while pressuring him into signing a consulting deal. In addition, the report quotes an unnamed former superintendent as saying “it seems like Trustee Dávila wanted to be the superintendent of the district.”
Dávila said she could not respond to an anonymous complaint about her involvement in administrative functions, and that anyone accusing her of improperly influencing a custodial contract is “outright lying.”
“This is a report where you didn’t have to provide anything. You could just say it,” Dávila said. “At some point, it’s unfair that they would mention my name and not the name of the administrator saying that.”
From the blogger Off the Kuff
Armed with a fundraising advantage and several endorsements — Houstonians For Great Public Schools, Harris County Young Democrats and Latino Texas PAC, among others — Cruz is campaigning as a voice of change and transparency. The race comes as Dávila faces accusations from TEA investigators that she misled state officials during an inquiry into potential violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act and improperly interfered in district vendor contracts. Dávila has denied the allegations.
Even Latino bloggers like to rip into other Latinos, Campos Communications.
Need I remind you. Here is from the TEA investigation of HISD from 2019:
Secret meetings: Based on emails, interviews and text messages, investigators found that five school board members — Sergio Lira, Anne Sung, Elizabeth Santos, Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca and board president Diana Dávila all “secretly met” with Dr. Abelardo Saavedra at a local restaurant, in a meeting that was not publicly posted, as required by state law. “The trustees violate the open meetings act when they deliberate public business outside of a properly posted public meeting through multiple communications each involving fewer than a quorum,” the report said. Three days later, the five trustees voted in a public meeting to fire the interim superintendent and hire Saavedra instead.
Save me the tears. The photo is from yesterday’s HISD board meeting. HISD Trustee District 1 voters reelected Santos by 46 votes in 2021. You asked for it. Source
Well, where was the corruption? Not with the Latinos.
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Why do other races like to point fingers at Latinos?
Latinos have heroes like Cesar Chavez, a pacifist who did not believe in fighting for his rights. He preferred starving to get attention.
My father, who was in the Pacific Theater, did more to pave the road for Latinos to do better than what he was allowed to do as an American citizen. He walked the streets, talking to people to convince them to pay the poll tax so they could vote. He was a member of the American GI Forum.
I once asked him about the war and if he wished he hadn’t gone, and he quickly said no. He had food to eat and a roof over his head. He was born right before the Great Depression. He preferred being shot at to starving.
My father on the right and his brother on the left were together for the duration of WWII. Four years together fighting the Japanese.
