Last New Mexican Superdelegate is a Woman and Native American

Yesterday while I with a good number of voters were having fun in the south valley the democratic state central committee was meeting to pick the final superdelegate for our state party. Ms. Laurie Weahkee is a female 42 year old Native American with memberships in both the Cochiti and Zuni Pueblos. She is at present uncommitted when it comes to which candidate to pick. She does feel that health care and Native American issues are what will help her decide which candidate to chose.

Brian Colon nominated two Native American women to fill the spot in the hopes of increasing the diversity of our states Superdelegates. We now have Hispanic, Native American, White, male, and female Superdelegates for our state. The one group missing is Africa American. I am sure that Brian would have loved to have all of the groups represented but our state still has a lot of work to do in increasing the diversity of elected officials. The Republican Party with its white male dominated group of candidates has done little to help increase our state’s diversity when it comes to elected officials but nothing new in that knowledge.

The Journal reported that there was a little heated discussion on who could run for the position of Superdelegate. Nothing new in that knowledge either. When does our party not have heated discussion on any topic that comes before the state central committee? When a large group of diverse people come together to talk about issues that they care a great deal about there will always be heated discussion. Our party should only start to be concerned if that body of people stops having heated discussions on issues.

One does have to feel for the Chair of the Democratic Party because he will always be the lightning rod for that group of people. Being state party chair is not a well rewarded or easy job when our party enjoys the ability to refuse to every be truly organized about anything. When anyone tries to simplify the rule of our party they only end up being more confusing and more difficult to follow. Diversity does have its drawbacks but our country and our party are known for it. The Journal should know that by now but they do spend an unusually great deal of time covering the Republican Party which is a lot less diverse in our state.