Top two staffers at Texas Democratic Party to step down

[TexasTowelie]

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune


The top two staffers at the Texas Democratic Party — executive director Manny Garcia and deputy executive director Cliff Walker — will leave their positions at the end of the month, they told The Texas Tribune in an interview.

The party's finance director, Hannah Roe Beck, will take over as interim executive director, and the party's voter expansion director, Luke Warford, is being promoted to a new senior role, chief strategy officer.

"After seven years and five and a half for Cliff, we've decided that now is the time to start the next chapter and move on to some new challenges," said Garcia, who started at the party as communications director in 2013. Walker began in 2015 as candidate recruitment and services director.

Their exits come two months after an election in which Texas Democrats underperformed expectations throughout the ballot, leading the state party to form a committee to do a "deep dive" on the losses. Some members of the State Democratic Executive Committee also called for Garcia and Walker to be replaced.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/21/texas-democrats-party-staffers/

[Shell_Seas]

1. I spoke with Manny a few weeks ago about the 2020 election.

He didn't tell me any type of insider info or anything, but I'm sure that 2020 was a hard hit for him, especially. It was a hard hit for a lot of us.

There's a lot of disconnect between rural county parties and the state party. (My opinion)

I wish him well.