Tag: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

"These are people with an important political background. Unlike male motivation — both white and Latino — women run with a political reason focused on helping their communities. "Not only am I the first female candidate here in Dallas, but really there has never been a Latina mayor in any of the main U.S. cities in the history of this country," Montoya said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. That means this year’s Legislature has 32 women, up from the previous total of 29. Keeping momentum "The Latino vote and African-American vote in city elections in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are the worst in the country," said Jorge Contreras, director of Working Families Party in Texas. "In cities like Arlington, just 0.5 % of Latinos vote in local elections,” Contreras said. Latinos in the ticket Even though city elections are nonpartisan — meaning candidates don’t run under a party affiliation -- some of the new Latino faces running for office have volunteered for Democratic campaigns in the past. That's the case of Giovanni Valderas, an alumnus of the Latino Center for Leadership Development, who announced in October his bid to represent north Oak Cliff in the Dallas City Council’s District 1 seat. Valderas had already worked for the campaigns of Paula Rosales, who in November was elected Dallas county judge, and current council member Omar Narváez. And most important, to not forget the people who elect us."