Tonight was a night that no local party ever looks forward to but it happens. The Aragon family has a long history in this state for being strong democrats who support the values and morals of their party but as of late two members of that family have now brought shame to that very old New Mexico family name.
Manny Aragon did a lot of great things for his community and that is why now so many are removing his name from public buildings after he was found guilty of taking the voting publics money in the building of our Metro Court. No one in this community welcomes this in anyway because they all valued the Aragon Family as good friends and as trusted elected officials. Now his cousin has again brought shame to the Aragon family name by being removed as ward chair because he violated party rules that he knew and had a long history with just to support a friend who was a republican. Of all families this one simple cannot say that I did not know the rules of my party.
The Democratic Party has a long history of people who don’t know how to not voice their personal option and I am just one of those people but when you take a position of leadership and accept that you represent other members of your party then you agree to live by the rules of the party when you express views as an elected official of that party. While this does not prevent you from expressing you own personal views it does require you to state clearly that they are your own personal views and not those of your party. Robert made the mistake of saying that he was representing his party when he endorsed a Republican for congress.
Members of the Rules Committee all expressed their distaste and sadness at having to remove a ward chair but were clear in great numbers that what Robert Aragon had done clearly crossed the line. Mr. Aragon did not show for the meeting and did not even try to protest the vote.
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"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
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1/1/10 A new year and a number of future elections to cover. The budget will be a major issue this year and we must work hard to protect the core values of our party.