LGBTQ+ Caucus Membership Advocates For Rights & Self-Protection-Rejects Coalition With Extremism

8/12/2023

The Houston Democracy Project was at the Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus municipal candidate endorsement meeting today.

All six hours of it!

Caucus membership endorsed Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee for Mayor by a vote 136-53 over John Whitmire.

The picture is of Rep. Jackson Lee today.

I'll have more to say about the meeting in the days ahead.

But I'll comment on one thing that was certain.

The rank & file membership of the Caucus does not want to be in coalition with extremists seeking to undo our elections and taking away our Houston elected school board in what just 60 years ago was a Jim Crow city.

Candidates who offered the extreme position of looking the other way at the Republican threat to democracy were soundly rejected. Caucus membership does not want to partner with Dan Patrick and Mattress Mack

Today's meeting was a good step along the way to making protection of democracy and fighting for democracy important issues in '23 Houston city politics.

The issue today was not the candidates selected so much as a membership that advocated for its rights and self-protection. There is no endorsement for any candidate for Mayor in this post.

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I'm Neil Aquino.

I'm a rank & file Houstonian. I’ve volunteered extensively for Democratic candidates and causes, and served as staff for multiple campaigns. My work for Democratic campaigns has involved communications and strategy.

I’m an organizer of the Weekly John Cornyn Houston Office Protest. The Cornyn Protest team has been outside Senator Cornyn’s office each Tuesday for eight years now with one clear message: In addition to voting, we must show up physically and non-conventionally for the fights over democracy. Events have proven this assertion correct.

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later on Egberto's YouTube channel.

I am the 2024 Barbara Cigainero Volunteer of the Year Award recipient the Houston LGBTQIA+ Political Caucus. I have a political science degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati and ran a Cincinnati City Council office.

I read a lot of books and follow baseball closely.

LGBTQ+ Caucus Membership Advocates For Rights & Self-Protection-Rejects Coalition With Extremism

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