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Concerns regarding Judge Henry's proposed

"Declaration Of Local State Of Disaster"

Letter of Opposition

Commissioners: PLEASE VOTE NO!

(Letter available as PDF)

Annotated Declaration:

DECLARATION LACKS ANY EVIDENCE OF EMINENT DANGER FOR GALVESTON COUNTY

(Annotated Declaration Available as PDF)

Commissioners meeting announcement:

Meeting agenda, and the official Declaration of Local State of Disaster:

At a special meeting of the GCDP Executive Committee, Tierrishia B. Gibson was chosen to serve as GCDP Chair.   Please welcome her, and offer your support and help. 

Temporary Chair Loretta Davis called the meeting to order at 7 PM.  The required quorum of 16 for this specially called meeting was confirmed by the Temporary Secretary Tina Russell.     29 of 31 Precinct Chairs were present via ZOOM.  (One of the 29 arrived during vote and left before voting because of a family emergency.) 

Temporary Chair Loretta Davis read names of the 4 candidates for GCDP County Chair -  Corlie Jackson,  Tierrishia B. Gibson,  Elias Sanchez, and Mandalyn Salazar.   She called 3 times for further nominations from the floor.  There were no further nominations.  Only precinct chairs were eligible to vote.  A Roll call vote was conducted. 

Vote results

Corlie Jackson - 6

Tierrishia B. Gibson - 16

Mandalyn Salazar - 6

Elias Sanchez - 0

Tierrishia B. Gibson was chosen to fill the remainder of the GCDP County Chair term.

GCDP County Chair Tierrishia B. Gibson spoke to the group and thanked everyone. 

The meeting adjourned at 7:18 pm.

Vote Tabulation:

Alta May Caligone, precinct 336, was not present for the Zoom meeting to cast her vote.

Lesley Jo Nicholes move out of county earlier this year.

Alice Anne Wilson resigned in March.

Letter of Resignation

On February 11, 2021, the GCDP County Executive Committee (CEC) met to finalize the list of candidates for our replacement County Chair and vote for one of those candidates.   This was a public meeting conducted with MobilizeAmeria (MA) and Zoom.  We had 108 people sign up for the meeting via MA and at one point we had 65 attending the meeting via Zoom.

ZOOM SCREENSHOT OF PAGE 1 OF PARTICIPANTS

The CEC is composed of a County Chair and all the Precinct Chairs in Galveston County.  When the current County Chair, John Young, resigned on January 23, 2021, the CEC became responsible for selecting a replacement to serve out the current term which, in this case, ends in June of 2022.  

When the nominations and applications process were concluded, the CEC had three candidates to chose from: Rachel McAdam, Mandalyn Salazar and Elias Sánchez-Pérez. 

The three candidates were present and were allowed 5 minutes to review their qualifications for this vacancy.

Thirty-two of 34 precinct chairs were present and constituted an exceptional quorum for conducting the GCDP business at hand. A roll-call vote was conducted.  The GCDP Secretary, Loretta Davis, called the roll in precinct number sequence.  Each precinct chair voiced their choice after their names were called.  Three precinct chairs were not available for the roll-call vote and one abstained. In all, thirty votes were cast.

The details of the vote are shown below by both the original tabulation by the GCDP Secretary and in a summary spreadsheet prepared by the Secretary.  The winner with 25 votes was Rachel McAdam.  

Congratulations to the replacement Chair of GCDP.

As of 1/23/2021, John Young formally resigned as chairman of the Galveston County Democratic Party:

Join us for a revealing presentation by John Dean, the co-author of Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His followers. Learn “how Donald Trump became, over the course of his life, a very flawed authoritarian leader.”  Learn how his followers “are created, where they are concentrated, how they think, why they are so easily led, why they are so aggressive, and even a lot they do know about themselves.”  Learn about the psychological testing used to identify authoritarians.  Learn what we need to do about them.

POLL WATCHING IN GALVESTON COUNTY:

If you you’d like to help monitor any of our county polling locations, training is available from the Texas Democratic Party.

“Texas voters need dedicated advocates on their side at our polling places. Sign up for a poll watching shift and ensure that every eligible voter can cast a ballot that counts.”

Signup here:    https://www.mobilize.us/tdpvoterprotection/event/341616/

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