Rep. Joaquin Castro Questions Sanders' Commitment to Latino Community

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278. Her story is so much like the Castros that they told at the DNC it made me cry.

She didn't get far in school, but did various kinds of work and housekeeping for money. She has always been extremely frugal, until now she has come to retirement and can live as she pleases.

Over the years she learned many professions, without a degree. She worked with lawyers on immigration cases, then went to school to work for the HPD and DEA. She paid off her little house in Houton, another in San Antonio, Waco and also tended to her husband in the VA hospital while doing all of those things.

She is an extraordinary woman, who worked past retirement age as people wanted her to do. Some time after her husband passed she remarried. She has been faithful to all of her friends, and there are many of them.

Her sons all adore her and have taken her to Europe more than once, and we've gone to Canada together. This time she's going to Alaska on a cruise. Things are looking good for her and she really deserves it.

I knew that about hispanics and the military, they are very willing to do the service. One of the things mi hermana does not want is for the USA to end up as Mexico has with the drug cartels. She's told me a lot of horror stories for years.

As far as that other logo - that is from someone in Texas - so I don't own it. But I really want to see Julian run as I love the twins. Her family was moved by that last DNC presentation. It is their story.

It would be a weakness to have two people from the northeast (not that I don't love 'em) on the ticket next year. So many people have moved to southern states, and the growth of the hispanic population, while across the nation and the world, is primarily melded best in Texas, IMHO. It is seamless, it's rejoiced at.

As far as the old days, we made a point of not buying iceberg lettuce and other produce as the Nixon administration was trying to break The Farmworkers by getting around the boycott. It was pretty nuts, they were shipping a lot of fresh produce across the Pacific for soldiers to help the landowners hold out.

The contract came but you know the big money have a back up plan to impede progress, always. We were brought up knowning that there was absolutely stupid discrimination in Texas. It was even illegal under the Republic of Texas but as time went on prejudice took over.

But the movements of the sixties and seventies were not to be denied as we went to the ballot box. It was a more progressive state in the seventies but that was a short time as the wingnuts came out in force for Reagan and it's never been the same since. I don't really recognize the place anymore.