The following is from a Hispanic Houston blogger.
In reading the Trib piece, I don’t think former Rep. Johnson is interested in representing Latinos, just saying. Stay tuned!
The Texas Tribune is the source that the blogger used to preimagine that Johnson is not interested in representing Hispanics. If the blogger’s claim is based on the fact that Garcia is a Hispanic, though, if not for her name, most people would look at her and say she is a gabacha. Besides, I don’t think Garcia really has the Hispanic community at heart. When has she stood up for Hispanics? She was anointed by a gabacho, Gene Green, and blessed by Whitmire, Green’s buddy.
Roman Martinez was a State Senator, and if anyone had anything to do with the creation of the 29th Congressional District, it was Roman Martinez. Roman Martinez drew the initial district for himself. Still, Whitmire and Green, who were in the legislature, had enough pull to add Gene Green’s home and a few gabacho areas, giving him a good chance to be the 29th Congressional Representative. Poor Roman, Ben Reyes, decided he wanted to be the new Congressman, and, based on what I heard, through some chingadas convinced Roman to run for Senate instead.
Whitmire and Gene Green took care of themselves and drew a Senate District for Whitmire, which he represented until he retired to run for mayor. Those two white boys ran the Hispanic community from their thrones for decades.
As the Houston Blogger said, Garcia was hand-picked by Green to be the new Congressional Representative.
For decades, it was represented by white Democratic Rep. Gene Green. In 2018, with Green retiring, the city’s Latino political class achieved a long-sought dream with the election of Sylvia Garcia, Green’s preferred successor, who became the first Hispanic person to represent a significant swath of Houston in Congress.
Pobricto Roman’s dream of becoming a Congressman was lost, and he also lost his run for State Senate to Mario Gallegos. I firmly believe that if Roman Martinez had run for Congress, he would have beaten Gene Green; he did not have the same stains Ben Reyes allegedly had.
There is a lot more to that story, but I don’t want to say what I heard and what I know. But I will close with the following: among the people running for the Congressional seat was a close friend of that Hispanic blogger. I liked the person, but his friends, Fruemensios Reyes and the Hispanic blogger, screwed many of the people who had volunteered for the Lanier Campaign. So I told Luna chala vato can’t do that when he asked for my help. At that time, I was very involved in those communities. Al Luna was a State Representative at the time.
The redrawing of the 29th Congressional District may be the best thing that happens to the Hispanic Community in the North Side and East End.
Maybe we can get one of those cabrones to stand next to a Sheila Jackson-Lee or an Al Green when they stand up for the Hispanic and Immigrant community.
