Posted on 08/03/2012 11:10:55 AM PDT by re_tail20
When Julian Castro, the San Antonio mayor, was announced Tuesday as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, the most common reaction among Democrats was “Who?”
The first Latino ever tapped for the high-profile primetime address, 37-year-old Castro is the youngest mayor of a top-50 American city. Serving a second term after a 2011 reelection with 82.9 percent of the vote, the Stanford and Harvard Law graduate’s biography lists a number of accolades that make it clear he’s an up-and-comer. He made Time magazine’s list of “40 under 40,” and his life story is the embodiment of what we think of as the striving American. The son of a single mother, Castro and his twin brother, Joaquin, who also has a stellar résumé and is running for Congress in Texas, strike the same chords that Barack Obama did when he was selected to keynote the Democratic convention in 2004—that America is a land of opportunity where merit and hard work are rewarded.
“He’s young, energetic, and impressive, exactly the kind of message the party wants to send,” says Matt Bennett, a cofounder of the centrist Democratic group Third Way.
“Great pick. Super smart, effective, innovative leader, young and Latino. What’s not to love? The future is now. Another reminder of why conservatives are doing everything they can to suppress the vote,” says John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
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Please God, not another one! One plague of locusts (Obama) per lifetime is one too many.
Why don’t they have someone who truly reflects their beliefs five the keynote address? Get the real thing, Fidel Castro!
He’s a radical just like his mother who was a big La Raza activist. These people don’t need any part of running the USA. We need AMericans with American values. I think BO has ruined any chances for these types of candidates for a long time.
Is this the guy whose mother hates the Alamo? Great pick, losers.
I stumbled across a reference to his father from someone local to SA but all it said was his father was an avid fan of Cuba's Fidel Castro. That might explain why we haven't heard much about his dad.
Maybe there's a reason, as in Obama's book referencing "Frank" without mentioning Ffrank's last name.
Well, among people of a certain ethnic background, cheating on one’s wife isn’t unknown.
I suspect the babies daddy was a married man.
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