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Title: Julián Castro announces 2020 presidential run from Texas
Source:
PBS
URL Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi ... 20-presidential-run-from-texas
Published: Jan 12, 2019
Author: Kamala Kelkar
Post Date: 2019-01-12 18:17:48 by hondo68
Keywords: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Catholic Church, across the street, by Native Americans
Views: 1267
Comments: 6
In the city where he was mayor for five years, Julián Castro announced at a rally in San Antonio on Saturday, his plans to run as a Democratic candidate during the 2020 presidential election. Castro said he wants to lead the, “healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on earth.” He is a Mexican-American who served as former Obama Housing and Urban Development secretary, and his campaign said he will not accept any corporate money. The announcement was made across the street from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church where he was baptized as a child, and where he baptized his children. Walking on stage as the song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” played, Castro started with, “Good morning. Buenos Dias,” and then thanked his mother. He talked about his family and their roots in America, his grandmother as a single mom raising his mother who grew up to become an activist. “This is a community built by immigrants. Families from Mexico, but also families from Germany and other countries. It’s also a country built by Native Americans,” he said. “Today, this community represents America’s future. Diverse, fast-growing, optimistic… and I’m proud to call myself a son of San Antonio.” “But the thing is right now, the relay isn’t working. The opportunities that made America the america that we love, those opportunities are reaching fewer and fewer people.” He said his grandmother taught him,” When we want change, we don’t wait for change, we work for it,” and that she would not believe it if she were alive today that he would be there today saying, “I am a candidate for president of the United States of America.” Introduced by his twin brother U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro of Texas and his mother, who said his son believes in the “infrastructure of opportunity… that every family should be given.” As a supporter of universal healthcare, the renewal of the assault weapons ban, LGBTQ rights and pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, Castro is the second candidate to formally launch a campaign. Former U.S. Representative John Delaney has been running for more than a year, opening an office in Des Moines today. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has formed an exploratory committee and has begun holding campaign events in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states with the earliest contests. And Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said in a CNN interview slated to air Saturday night that she will be formally announcing her candidacy within the next week. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
The same tropes the dems have always used. Envy, and division. Invoking his grandmother who never said anything as eloquent. Just like that other Liar Tlaib who said her son said Bullies don't win.
"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist
Wait, wait....I thought the Antifa/Progressive/Democrat/Communist rhetoric is that President Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated and that America has become a concentration camp with hot, flaming ovens running 24/7?????? “With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." Wasn't that the one from Michigan who said she was "going to impeach that m-fer Trump"? I thought so. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It looks like this will open the flood gates and we will se dozens of Presidential hopefuls throwing their hats in the ring. What do you guys think who live in Austin about this guy Castro? ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
President Trump has him beat, with an immigrant mother from Scotland. Let the virtue signaling wars begin! Like the former SA mayor, fellow beaner, and HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, he will piss away millions of others' dollars in this quixotic quest while becoming another epic FAIL.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Castro said he wants to lead the, “healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on earth.”
-Alex Kurtagic 
#3. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
that other Liar Tlaib who said her son said Bullies don't win.
#4. To: hondo68, Lod, christine (#0)
In the city where he was mayor for five years, Julián Castro announced at a rally in San Antonio on Saturday, his plans to run as a Democratic candidate during the 2020 presidential election.
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
Invoking his grandmother
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